Any recommendations for a Weather Widget that has the option of having a manual refresh button on the widget? I'd also like multi-day forecast on the widget, transparent background, and other cool options...but can't seem to find good ones with a way to manually refresh by just clicking a button on the widget.
Beautiful Widgets though it doesn't have the refresh directly on the widget, you can easily reach it be touching the widget
Hd widgets. The best you can get. It's a paid app but its very customizable and will refresh weather on tap
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sckboy78 said:
Hd widgets. The best you can get. It's a paid app but its very customizable and will refresh weather on tap
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When I tap the widget, it opens the app where you have to hit a refresh button in there. Is there a way to just refresh simply with 1 tap of the widget?
I also couldn't find where you can turn off auto updating, allowing for manual updating only...
I'm not sure why there aren't more weather widgets out there that have a manual refresh on the widget itself, rather than forcing you to open the widget, etc, in order to refresh. I personally don't like auto-updates to be running, but I want a 1-tap method of refreshing the weather info.
Anyway, in case anyone else is looking for the same thing, I did find Palmary Weather Pro that has this functionality. Overall, it's a pretty solid app imo, although it'd be nice to have a few more options within the app to customize things. It'll also be nice to have other app options, because Palmary looks like it hasn't been updated in a while. BeWeather was another one with the manual refresh option, but it is a pretty limited app. So if anyone else finds another one, please post here.
I also found Elecont Weather (or eWeather HD), which can be set to never auto-update, but to manual refresh when just tapping the widget. This app has a lot of widget options and can be customized quite a bit. Getting the widgets looking just right took a while due to all of the various options, but this app seems solid.
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In search of a pure Weather only Widget...I like the Weather portion of Beautiful Home Weather, but do not need the clock option - does anyone know how to disable to clock or an application with only the weather portion....
Weatherbug Elite has a nice widget that displays weather which is what I use.
The Weather Channel... they have three to four types of widgets available
Try snow storm from the market
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i use "Weather Widget - Free" by Android Apps. it supports different skins / themes and it can display a single weather icon with temp. i bought beautiful widgets, but prefer this app.
I use Beautiful Widgets BUT DO NOT USE THE WIDGET.
You can go to the options and have the temp show in your notification bar. That way when you click on it you get the cool animations and forecast/current weather from BW, but you get all the space on your home page by not using the widget... kinda the best of both worlds.
I never understood needed a clock widget... utterly pointless in my not so humble opinion.
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I understood needed a clock widget... utterly pointless in my not so humble opinion.
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Me either.. I personally like it just for the "eye candy"
I use fancy widget just get it from here, is just like the sense widget.
http://androidcommunity.com/fancy-widget-for-android-20100612/
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I use fancy widget just get it from here, is just like the sense widget.
http://androidcommunity.com/fancy-widget-for-android-20100612/
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link doesnt work anymore since HTC sent a C&D letter to get it pulled from the market. there are ways in obtaining it, go google it
I am using simi weather on my Atrix and I would like for it to open the go weather app when I touch the simi weather icon. How do I do this? Is it possible? When I assign go weather to the simi weather icon it just opens the settings......any ideas?
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in the launcher settings, tap on "App for tap 1." You'll see it in the "Tap action weather" section.
then just select the app you want to open.
the next step is to tap on the "Tap style weather" section. When the pop-up menu appears, select "Single."
Be sure to click "Ok" on the top left of the settings section you're on. You'll then be sent one screen back. Tap on "Save" in the upper left hand corner.
that should do it.
That worked perfectly. Then I realized, that I wanted to open the beautiful weather lite weather thing not go weather.
Beautiful weather shows more than one day where simi shows one day which I like but I would like to tap it and have the weather open like beautiful weather does. Is this possible?
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i'm guessing all you have to do is select the beautiful weather app instead of the go weather app.
since the widget on your desktop is set to open when you tap it now, you'll have to access the simi weather app from your app drawer and change the "App for 1 tap" app from there.
I tried that and it sends me to the settings of beautiful weather instead of the actual weather popup. So I am not sure what to do.
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goweather
GoWeather is TOP app for me, because It can find my location. Other apps couldn't find my location
GoWeather is beautiful, and has awesome skins *-
I'm looking for a agenda widget that's specifically 2x1 in size, but support transparency. I like the the stock agenda widget where it only display today's events and tapping open calender app, but it doesn't do transparency. The ones I found on market (glass widget, agenda) that does support transparency are all 4x1, and display the date in big letters which I don't need.
Any recommendations?
Agenda widget pro is good, shows several calendars in one widget, even showz my touchdown / exchange appointments.
Its free on getjar appstore for the moment
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I'm looking for a agenda widget that's specifically 2x1 in size, but support transparency. I like the the stock agenda widget where it only display today's events and tapping open calender app, but it doesn't do transparency. The ones I found on market (glass widget, agenda) that does support transparency are all 4x1, and display the date in big letters which I don't need.
Any recommendations?
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Simple Calendar Widget - its simple, nice and you can customize what's needed.
And important ... it do not use much battery and its free
Personally I prefer it over all other I have seen.
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Someone has got to have made this but I can't seem to find it. I'm using a "hubs" layout (one screen for social media, one for productivity etc) and I'd like to essentially have a horizontally scrollable launcher widget on each screen with apps that make sense for that hub.
Currently using simi folder widget which is cool, but I'd prefer the launcher bar that is activated by clicking on the folder to live in a widget right on the home screen.
Could anybody point me to a widget app like this? I'm pretty sure I saw a video where someone had this but didn't see details on what they were using. Thanks!
Edit: sorry if this would have been better posted in themes and apps. Please move if necessary.
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If I'm understanding you then what you're looking for is a dock that can display icons that are specific to the current page? Something close would be Nova launcher which provides a scrollable dock. If you haven't tried it, I highly recommend it!
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If I'm understanding you then what you're looking for is a dock that can display icons that are specific to the current page? Something close would be Nova launcher which provides a scrollable dock. If you haven't tried it, I highly recommend it!
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Thanks, I'm currently using Apex and I really like it. I don't want just 1 dock (no matter how many pages on it you can scroll through). I want a different set of apps in a horizontally scrolling launcher bar widget. Then I could put an instance of this widget on each of my homescreens with different apps in each one. Then when I swipe from my "Office" homescreen to my "Photo" or "Video" homescreens this "launcher" widget has the appropriate apps for that hub. Hopefully that makes sense.
Like I said, simi folder widget is pretty good for this kind of setup, but I thought there might be a better solution out there.
I use the DuckDuckGo widget for my searches as opposed to Google and would really love to be able to make it persistent like the Google search bar can be. I'm using Nova at the moment and it allows me to set Google as persistent if I want but it doesn't allow just any widget to be persistent, only the Google search.
If there are other launchers out there that show persistent widgets of your choosing please do tell me, if not if there is a way to make it happen is love to know!
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i m also looking for such feature...
Why not just add the widget to the top of every page? It's not as nice, but I don't think there are launchers that support that since it's not nearly as popular
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Why not just add the widget to the top of every page? It's not as nice, but I don't think there are launchers that support that since it's not nearly as popular
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Well the reason I don't do that is because it doesn't look right, for some reason making the widget persistent doesn't look the same as adding a widget to every page. I don't know how to really explain it. Try using a fullscreen widget like Business Calendars 5x5 widget, and stretch it to whatever you have your grid set to, and then enable the persistent search bar. Take a screenshot and then get rid of the persistent search bar and just add one by hand and take a screenshot. They look different, almost like the persistent search bar doesnt take up the phone width of the grid like a regular widget does.
Also persistent widgets dont move the other things on your homescreens doen as far as having to take up another grid does.
Ive seen Overlay but that doesnt really do what i am trying to do, it just allows a floating widget over your screen and floats it on top of what is already there. I am looking for either a launcher or a mod that allows me to change which widget I use as the persistent widget.