I'm trying to set up my homescreen with minimal icons and text based widgets. The idea is to get all the at a glance information I want on one screen, without any ugly inconsistent widget backgrounds.
Android Agenda widget is customisable enough to let me do that for my calendar, but I'd like to do the same for my recent emails (ideally in my K-9 unified inbox) and SMSes. Something that will just show the sender and subject line/first few words, white text on a transparent background (or configurable so I can get it looking like that).
Does anyone have any recommendations? Is this something I could do through tasker or locale: take the notifications from my SMS and email and output them as text in a widget? If it is, how would I go about that?
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Hi all - first post so i hope it a relatively decent question. Did have a search but couldnt find anything related to this particular issue on this phone.
I have an unrooted S2 and i would like to use another Launcher.
My problem is that i cannot seem to find and App or Launcher or anything that can alert me of unread emails.
I have tried 'missed it' and executive assistant but to no avail.
Missed it works for calls and SMS but not email.
I should add that i am not using G mail but using the built in samsung email App with two accounts (1 POP and 1 Exchange).
If i receive an email using the default launcher and open the app drawer there is an email icon which displays the unread count in a red bubble. So if i add this icon to desktop or to the dock i can see unread mails.
If i am using Launcher Pro for example this icon is not in my app drawer or anywhere that i can find it. In stead there is exactly the same icon in the drawer but this does not display the unread count.
I am assuming that this is a semi sansung widget (although i cannot add it to desktop as a widget even in the standard launcher).
I have also tried using the social hub with launcher pro (and Go launcher and ADW) but again i get no notifications.
I still get the notifications in the notification bar no matter what launcher i use but these dissapear after a while.
This is currently the only thing stopping me using a different Launcher and it would be great if anyone had any ways around this.
Unfortunately i cannot and dont really want to forward my emails to Gmail.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks
Nath
Hi. I really like the feature from iOS that shows on icons number in red bubble refering to new updates, messages, etc.
So i found some apps for android (i know that you know them) that have similiar widget.
SMS unread count, gmail count, gmail labels, gReader, facebook(only with GO launcher),remember the milk.
So i wonder if you know any other apps with this type of notifications widget.
so i found today this topic http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1020459&page=2
it pretty much shows what i am looking for. that tutorial for whatsapp works for me, however on my phone nottification bubbles are too small so i should replace them with some bigger one. original ios would be great, but i have to find some aprropriate.
i d like to know what other widget apps could be created with this method.
Hi, I'm looking for something pretty much exactly like minimal reader pro but for a calendar, it has to be scrollable and completely transparent with white text,
any suggestions? and thanks in advance
Android Agenda Widget is scrollable and can be configured to do exactly what you seem to be describing.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.roflharrison.agenda&hl=en
Android Pro Widgets - https://market.android.com/details?...51bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5yZHIud2lkZ2V0cy5jb3JlIl0. = allows you to select 100% transparency in some of the themes. Its a paid app but in addition to a Calendar Widget (which also provides an agenda view) it also provides widgets for Facebook, Twitter, and Messaging. For at least one of the themes there is a slight bug which results in a slightly darkened header on the Agenda view for the calendar but the bug is supposed to be fixed in an update.
Oh and the Icon for the app blows big time Doesn't bother me too much but for some I know its a concern.
Try Simple Calendar Widget. I love the looks of it and it meets most of your requirements. I only wish the dev would make Google Task widget as well!
Pure grid calendar widget has several skins and is awesome.
I like the Asus main unread widget. But is there something similar that will talk to Gmail?
something similar? i dont think so...not something that LOOKS like the asus one.
however, there are a couple things you can do.
i know for a face APEX launcher Pro has the option to put an "iOS" style unread bubble on the gmail icon on you home screen.
then there is the stock gmail widget which gives you an unread count in the upper right hand corner. doesn't look as clean as the asus widget, but it is a very functional widget.
Apology is this is the wrong forum.
I have been using Android Pro Widget. It has a set of widgets with unified look & feel. But it's not longer updated and don't work well on latest Android.
What would be a good agenda widget? Google Calendar has a basic one but there is no customization at all (e.g. dark them, small fonts).
What about SMS?
Thanks