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Finger friendly Today app launcher

I was thinking of a nice "concept" of launcher kind of Today plugin of app launcher (like iLauncher , Pocket Plus, etc.).
Usually this kind of app will use TAB and most of the time will consume a lot of screen estate (area).
My idea of a good launcher :
1. Using big icon size
2. Only one row of icon (without TAB), maybe 5 icons max.
3. You can slide that row with your finger to display other icons (shortcuts), with scrolling animation if possible
4. Double Tab of the icon to launch the app (or tab+hold). This is necessary because we need to reserve the single tab to slide the icons.
Is this a good idea or not?
Well, one might ask "I have a lot of shortcuts and it will be annoying if I must scroll/slide a lot".
That's correct, but another idea is to have somekind of "Page container" to hold, let say max 12 icons (3x4) The page will be displayed as a popup ...
Anyway, just my idea

gogol said:
I was thinking of a nice "concept" of launcher kind of Today plugin of app launcher (like iLauncher , Pocket Plus, etc.).
Usually this kind of app will use TAB and most of the time will consume a lot of screen estate (area).
My idea of a good launcher :
1. Using big icon size
2. Only one row of icon (without TAB), maybe 5 icons max.
3. You can slide that row with your finger to display other icons (shortcuts), with scrolling animation if possible
4. Double Tab of the icon to launch the app (or tab+hold). This is necessary because we need to reserve the single tab to slide the icons.
Is this a good idea or not?
Well, one might ask "I have a lot of shortcuts and it will be annoying if I must scroll/slide a lot".
That's correct, but another idea is to have somekind of "Page container" to hold, let say max 12 icons (3x4) The page will be displayed as a popup ...
Anyway, just my idea
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So a sort of HTC home Today app?????
Whats wrong with HTC Home?

Problem with HTC Home:
1. It is TOO BIG (require about 50% of screen estate).
2. It can only hold 1 tab for application launcher (with only 9 max shortcuts).
So, it is pretty useless if you have more than 9 app shortcuts that you want.
My idea is to have just 1 "row" of icons that you can "scroll / slide" through to display next apps/shortcuts.
thebishop1978 said:
So a sort of HTC home Today app?????
Whats wrong with HTC Home?
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gogol said:
Problem with HTC Home:
1. It is TOO BIG (require about 50% of screen estate).
2. It can only hold 1 tab for application launcher (with only 9 max shortcuts).
So, it is pretty useless if you have more than 9 app shortcuts that you want.
My idea is to have just 1 "row" of icons that you can "scroll / slide" through to display next apps/shortcuts.
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Gotcha.
Maybe cool, but not for me, as I do the basics with my fingers, Call, read emails/SMS, launch Calenders, etc and when the need arises just whip out the stylus for the rest.

I say develop it...sounds like a good idea!

Does anyone use the other screens?

I find myself just using the main home screen and putting my icons there, but the other screens don't get used and are blank. If I want an app, I press the dots and flick through the launcher.
Is it just me?

I only use 3 of the screens. main one (centre), the left and right one. Other ones are empty.

3 here, I removed the other two using Helixlauncher2

I'm using all 5 and they are all full heh. I have different themes for each screen with most used apps + clock/weather on the middle screen, social networking widgets on one, utilities on one, fun on another and one with an agenda and some other stuff.
Not really hard to fill those screens up imo, but I guess other people actually use the app-drawer.

I use them all and kind of wish there were more. LOL like the poster above, each page has a specific "theme".

I'm using all 5 and they are all full heh. I have different themes for each screen with most used apps + clock/weather on the middle screen, social networking widgets on one, utilities on one, fun on another and one with an agenda and some other stuff.
Not really hard to fill those screens up imo, but I guess other people actually use the app-drawer.
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you're screens are set up EXACTLY like I set my Nexus 1 screens up : -). but on my g1 I just use 1 screen
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I use Helixlauncher and am using all 7 screens. Although I noticed that with all of the widgets I'm using, there is some lag once in a while, but it's more that it's not as smooth as the stock homescreens really.

I use each screen for different types of task.
My home screen has Calls, SMS, GMail and the Browser icons. First screen to the left has facebook and twitter widgets and the second screen to the left has tool apps like netcounter, task killer, astro file manager and the power widget.
First screen to the right is for media so I have the news widget, music, camera and gallery icons/widgets. The second right screen has apps I want to find quickly like torch, calculator, dictionary and a few games.
Scrolling up and down the app drawer seems like a pain to me

C.Slater said:
I use each screen for different types of task.
My home screen has Calls, SMS, GMail and the Browser icons. First screen to the left has facebook and twitter widgets and the second screen to the left has tool apps like netcounter, task killer, astro file manager and the power widget.
First screen to the right is for media so I have the news widget, music, camera and gallery icons/widgets. The second right screen has apps I want to find quickly like torch, calculator, dictionary and a few games.
Scrolling up and down the app drawer seems like a pain to me
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I have almost the same layout but with the left and right reversed... might be because i am in a right handed drive country xD

C.Slater said:
I use each screen for different types of task.
My home screen has Calls, SMS, GMail and the Browser icons. First screen to the left has facebook and twitter widgets and the second screen to the left has tool apps like netcounter, task killer, astro file manager and the power widget.
First screen to the right is for media so I have the news widget, music, camera and gallery icons/widgets. The second right screen has apps I want to find quickly like torch, calculator, dictionary and a few games.
Scrolling up and down the app drawer seems like a pain to me
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I do have the exact same layout!

3 screens, apps to the left, widgets to the right, and calling, text, emails, contacts center. Not ruling out using the far screens but have no need for them with my usage. There is still plenty of room on the inboard 3 for future additions.

3 screens only & using the Helix Launcher

Using 3 main screens loaded with apps & widgets.

all 5, but not all full. home screen has most apps, with phone, contacts, notes, task panel widget, car home, voice, gesture search, sms, settings and spare parts. left 1 is gmail and weather
left 2 is pandora and facebook.
right 1 is some games, system widget (sync, locale, wifi, bt)
right 2 is the calendar pad widget covering whole thing. i need to see whole month.

SBS_ said:
I'm using all 5 and they are all full heh. I have different themes for each screen with most used apps + clock/weather on the middle screen, social networking widgets on one, utilities on one, fun on another and one with an agenda and some other stuff.
Not really hard to fill those screens up imo, but I guess other people actually use the app-drawer.
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Same here. I have the calendar widget on my main screen, which takes up four "slots", and my most frequently used apps (mail, phone, camera, Twidroid etc.and a battery widget) One screen to the left I have other frequently used apps, two screens to the left I have the 4square widget. One screen to the right some frequently used widgets (like weather, Google Buzz and networks) ans two screens to the right: games.

I use 5 out of seven on my Desire ROM.
Center is most used apps plus weather clock.
To the right is two rows of apps. right of that is facebook and textsfromlastnight
the left of center is weather, but the expanded widget from sense
to the left of that is sticky notes and some media.

Themes, widgets, ROMS, oh my!

Had my Blade for about a month now, tried half a dozen roms, settled on Jap Jellyfish with some tweaks, overclocked kernel, black status bar, yadda yadda yadda.
I have looked at people's home screens, and think... why? I tried having a big clock or circle battery widget, I still instinctively look to the status bar up top. I've tried various other widgets, but everything just seems to get in the way.
I have only one home screen populated with stuff I use regularly, Droid48, Email widget, contacts, power control and google search. I have seen some things that I think look cool, but don't see the point in doing, does it really add enough to my user experience to be worth the juggling and hoops?
So far the only real modifications I would consider heavier than just applying a couple zip files (Forst paragraph), I have made involve Widgetlocker, and a couple sliders, plus... Droid48. Sometimes I just really, really need to have a calculator. Maybe I'm just not cut out for this pretty phone thing.

No offense, but whats the point of this post?

A few questions buried in there, will the heavy mods actually make my experience any better? Are there any changes that are. aactually worth the effort?
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you've hit the nail on the head with "look cool". that's a pretty good reason. plenty of apple owning friends are pretty jealous of the widgets possible on my blade. and i remind them often that it's £100 vs £500.
i agree that overkill is possible but it all depends on what you want from your phone.
ive got a calendar and task widget on my home screen so i always know my next engagement.
ive got a widget showing what torrent my server is currently grabbing.
on one page i've got a page full of my best mates + family photos grabbed straight from facebook which i far prefer over going to the contacts app then favourites.
and everyone needs the instant buttons app so you're only ever 2 presses away from playing the tumbleweed sound effect after someone cracks an awful joke....

Ok some good ideas there, and I have gotten some other ideas elsewhere. The scrolling wallpaper that is making the rounds has given me the inspiration to try out some things, and I am starting to understand the allure of themeing.
Noticing somedistinct improvements with 2. 2 as well.
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galorin said:
I have looked at people's home screens, and think... why? I tried having a big clock or circle battery widget, I still instinctively look to the status bar up top. I've tried various other widgets, but everything just seems to get in the way.
I have only one home screen populated with stuff I use regularly, Droid48, Email widget, contacts, power control and google search. I have seen some things that I think look cool, but don't see the point in doing, does it really add enough to my user experience to be worth the juggling and hoops?
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I'm pretty much from the same school of thinking with android. I only had my blade for a few weeks now & I've come from an iPhone & I really think less is more. I have launcher pro plus installed with only two homescreens.
One which simply has typo clock widget, a basic helvetica clock & a shortcut to my camera. The typoclock takes me to my alarm clock if i press it & obviously i got the launcher pro dock with browser, sms, gmail etc & swipe gestures for all 5.
The 2nd has a facebook widget, a setCPU widget, couple of folders for games/utilities & a few more short cuts to apps I use regularly (Astro, market, cal, maps etc....).
Have you tried the 0x90 addon for Jjelly? It let's you put the power control widget at the top of your notification bar, esier to get to & frees up home screen space! It also let's you tweak your home screen a bit, add a music player control (which works with spotify ) It's a brilliant mod, you should give it a try.

Awestome
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Downloading now, haven't found any widgets yet for fb that are both good and work well with a black theme.
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[Q] Asus Weather Widget - Tap to Open Forecast App

is there a way to open another app when you tap on the standard asus weather widget?
i tried using tasker but couldnt find a way, any other apps that can do this?
i want ironically to open the accuweather honeycomb app just by tapping on the asus weather widget

this would be great. tapping it to open the weeks forecast.
i stopped using the widget because i noticed that many times when id come back to my home page, the numbers (say 89 deg) was cut off. it was weird, but half og the numbers would end up "cut off" on the screen

I have the same problem, sometimes it's cut in half. But the weirdest thing is: Since the last update the temperature is wrong, about 10 C.

Just to chime in...
I also have the "cut in half" issue often. On top of that I don't get the temp updated on schedule. I set it to every hour and it will randomly update but not every hour. It may not be random, but I haven't spent enough time to determine the pattern.

gunswick said:
..., any other apps that can do this?
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My Samsung Galaxy S2 has such a widget, which opens the Accu Weather website, when being tapped on.
Search the market place, there's a free Accu Weather widget for Honeycomb with the same functionality, though the design isn't that nice looking for my taste.
jayson269 said:
I also have the "cut in half" issue often.
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It seems to be a bug in the widget, because the system logs say, the Accu Weather servers are unreachable. The widget of my SGS2 always reaches the same servers.

turbulent28 said:
this would be great. tapping it to open the weeks forecast.
i stopped using the widget because i noticed that many times when id come back to my home page, the numbers (say 89 deg) was cut off. it was weird, but half og the numbers would end up "cut off" on the screen
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I used to have that, but since using ADW EX Launcher it's a thing of the past. It's almost as if the 'transparent' box which determines the size of the widget somehow becomes smaller so you can get the clean cut on the numbers.
With the ADW EX launcher, you can make the transparent box which controls the overall size of the widget a little bit bigger so you don't get the problem.

Paradaz said:
I used to have that, but since using ADW EX Launcher it's a thing of the past.
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In my case the problem with the cut off numbers also didn't happen again ... don't know why. I don't use a different launcher, only a new keyboard. I use the Hackers Keyboard, because it has cursor keys, which come in handy, when answering forum posts

gunswick said:
is there a way to open another app when you tap on the standard asus weather widget?
i tried using tasker but couldnt find a way, any other apps that can do this?
i want ironically to open the accuweather honeycomb app just by tapping on the asus weather widget
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Download "The Weather Channel" app. You can place a widget on one of your screen, tap on the widget to open up the full weather app. I have the said app and works well. Just that the widget isn't as fancy as fancy as Asus' weather app.

hoang51 said:
Download "The Weather Channel" app.
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Call me paranoid, but I would NEVER install a weather app, that needs the permission to send SMS and make phone calls. Ok, on the TF that's not a problem, but it makes me wonder, what info this app is trying to spy out ... read the details HERE.
I would stay away from this app.

What do you want in the 4.2 update?

Hi, I'm gonna get the one as soon as I can but I have one question for those who own the one. What are you wanting htc to add in the 4.2 update? What things are kinda missing in the one?
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in april

remove the 4mb cap on the cam ?

a7medo778 said:
remove the 4mb cap on the cam ?
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Isn't software related, it's a hardwarething -> sensor
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a7medo778 said:
remove the 4mb cap on the cam ?
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a7medo778 said:
remove the 4mb cap on the cam ?
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The camera is a 4MP sensor. There's nothing you can do about it

Group Messaging and Quick Settings in the notification bar.

"AirDroid" integration or similar app/feature ..
when I am working on my computer at home it would be nice to get some notifications on my computer and to have the ability to send messages etc. from my pc, so I don't always have to switch over to the phone to read the messages etc.

Long press back for menu.
Quick reply for SMS.
Notification quick settings.
CIFS (i can dream) support.
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Battery percentage optional icon in notification bar
Integration of email and sms into Blinkfeed.
Option to jump back to top on Blinkfeed. Currently, lots of upscrolling is needed.
Settings controls or shortcuts in pull-down notification bar. Similar to blackberry and Samsung phones
USING: BB Z10, HTC ONE and GALAXY NOTE 2

mikeyd85 said:
Long press back for menu.
Quick reply for SMS.
Notification quick settings.
CIFS (i can dream) support.
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What's CIFS? Agreed, quick reply for SMS would be handy and notification quick settings would be amazing.
whmcal said:
Battery percentage optional icon in notification bar
Integration of email and sms into Blinkfeed.
Option to jump back to top on Blinkfeed. Currently, lots of upscrolling is needed.
Settings controls or shortcuts in pull-down notification bar. Similar to blackberry and Samsung phones
USING: BB Z10, HTC ONE and GALAXY NOTE 2
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I believe you can press the home button to jump to the top of Blinkfeed, but I am not 100% certain as I do not have the HTC One yet. Will probably get it early April

Nokiacrazi said:
What's CIFS? Agreed, quick reply for SMS would be handy and notification quick settings would be amazing.
I believe you can press the home button to jump to the top of Blinkfeed, but I am not 100% certain as I do not have the HTC One yet. Will probably get it early April
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Yep just press home button to go back to the top
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yvibes said:
Yep just press home button to go back to the top
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Only if it's your default home screen.
I would love to see the notification bar made black on all home screens.
If you go to an app or the settings menu, then go home again (not Blinkfeed) the transition from black to clear really isn't nice.
Also I want to turn off IME switcher and power save notifications!!
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I just hope its a 4.2.2 release and they don't take forever to update the device.

voltron2k11 said:
"AirDroid" integration or similar app/feature ..
when I am working on my computer at home it would be nice to get some notifications on my computer and to have the ability to send messages etc. from my pc, so I don't always have to switch over to the phone to read the messages etc.
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Sooo, you want AirDroid? Why should HTC add more bloat when you can install it yourself in 4 seconds?
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whmcal said:
Battery percentage optional icon in notification bar
Integration of email and sms into Blinkfeed.
Option to jump back to top on Blinkfeed. Currently, lots of upscrolling is needed.
Settings controls or shortcuts in pull-down notification bar. Similar to blackberry and Samsung phones
USING: BB Z10, HTC ONE and GALAXY NOTE 2
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Press the status/notification bar at the top to go to the top of the list. I would like an option for horizontal scrolling, hold back for menu and the option to delete the blinkfeed page. & add it back if wanted as a new page.

Ignore

So with sense 5 you can't have battery percentage in the top bar... wtf?

1. option to add contents to blinkfeed.
2. Notification toggles.
3. Quick Reply SMS.
4. Notification quick settings
5. Return back the missing lockscreen themes(Clock, FM Radio, People)
6. Photo sphere
And bonuses would be...
7. Multi window, S-Pen(using glass cutter as a pen), S-Health, eye tracking, Smart Stay, Snake, Space impact, bantumi, pairs, bounce, AI intelligence to the point your phone has a brain of it's own, make grub as bootloader, Can quad boot(windows, linux, android, tizen), 100mile radius bluetooth for free calls and texts, can make your brain as a cloud storage

1. Long pres menu option
2. Stability
3. Speed
4. More content for blinkfeed