I've been organizing my layout and going with a minimal approach and I started using minimalistic text for the battery but I had a thought of something even simpler.
I'm looking for something that just displays a thin horizontal line (no text and preferably a user defined color) that will shrink as the battery drains (for my layout, centered aligned and both sides shrink).
The only 'minimal' battery widgets I've come across are circle or battery shaped 1x1 widgets. I'm looking to extend this one across a 5x1 area.
Has anyone come across such a widget?
Thank you in advanced.
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So in creating any of the Beautiful Widgets clock/ weather widgets it shows a customization for "Battery Skins" under Appearance tab. Does this appear for anyone when you go and dnld a batt skin and apply it? I'm on auto nooter (Froyo), wonder if it might not be supported on NC? Thanks to anyone who knows this issue but has found a way to get battery life to display i'd appreciate the assist.
(Also, i do not see a separate Beautiful Widgets battery widget item when i go to Add Item > Widgets on the Nookie. I'm not sure if its supposed to be a totally separate widget or is supposed to be combined, aka, show battery icon within the clock/ weather widget.)
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So in creating any of the Beautiful Widgets clock/ weather widgets it shows a customization for "Battery Skins" under Appearance tab. Does this appear for anyone when you go and dnld a batt skin and apply it? I'm on auto nooter (Froyo), wonder if it might not be supported on NC? Thanks to anyone who knows this issue but has found a way to get battery life to display i'd appreciate the assist.
(Also, i do not see a separate Beautiful Widgets battery widget item when i go to Add Item > Widgets on the Nookie. I'm not sure if its supposed to be a totally separate widget or is supposed to be combined, aka, show battery icon within the clock/ weather widget.)
Mike
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Any of the Beautiful Super Clock options. At the scrolling part choose clock feature and choose battery instead. Took me some time to figure it out as well. Even though it was so obvious
Hi, can I ask you what widget is in these applications at the bottom?
http://www.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/image93.png
http://img.actualidadiphone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/image3-e1298015663581.png
Is it ImageSwitcher, TabHost, ViewSwitcher or something else?
Thx very much for help!
Are you talking about that horizontal strip of icons?
Looks to be a couple of ImageButtons in a LinearLayout. Horizontal Orientation. With some padding on each ImageButton. With a background for the LinearLayout.
Think he means the icons on each screen corner.
But im not shure...
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I wasn't too sure especially because of the iPhone picture.
For that grid of panels stuff it looks to be either nested LinearLayouts or a TableLayout with a FrameLayout within that to overlap the app icon on the image of the app =/
Ok I am running Miui with adw launcher ex and I am trying to make a clean theme with minimalistic text. I cannot seem to get the minimalistic text widget to lay flush with the screen however. (see below pic) The right side and the bottom will not lay flush with the screen. I have seen plenty of screens look sooo clean using miui and minimalistic text and adw launcher but I cant for the life of me figure out how to get this set up going. Also it seems that when people make this clean themes that their icons are spaced closer together and I would like to know how to do that to if anyone who customizes their phone in this manner knows how. I would really appreciate and answer at the very least on how to make the widget lay flush with the screen. Any help on these kinds of customizations though are welcome!
Good Luck!
Although I can't help you with the widget touching all sides (I've had that problem, it sucks) I can help you with getting your icons closer together. Some where in the settings of ADW Launcher (Maybe like Homescreen or Icons) In there look for something that says, "Rows and Colums" and adjust them to your liking. On default, most android phones are set up at 4x4.
It's because you are hiding the dock. For whatever reason the alignment is off when the dock is hidden. I've emailed them about it but no reply..
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I'm looking for a clock widget that looks good in both portrait and landscape modes. I'm tired of clock widgets that look like crap when the launcher is in landscape mode (or, if they look good in landscape, they look like crap in portrait), like HD Widgets or Beautiful Widgets.
I've only found one widget that changes its layout completely (read: not just stretches in one dimension and contracts in the other) to adjust itself to its new allocated area: Accuweather. See the attached images for what I mean. Notice the layout is completely different, and nothing overlaps/looks stretched/tiny. Both modes look great.
Now, my problem with Accuweather is that I'm looking for something darker, that looks better with the wallpaper. Do you know of some widget that does the same as Accuweather (different layouts for portrait/landscape) and allows customization?
Thanks!
So... nothing? Nobody knows of a clock/weather widget that is intelligent enough to use different content layouts depending on its available space?
I get that the developers/designers are only doing themes for specific screen resolutions right now, but why is the core tools for creating custom Themer widgets restricted by large grid settings?
Confused as to what I mean? Please let me explain.
I can create a custom widget, which starts with the background box. But, in order to line the background box up with my home page background, I have to set the color of the background widget to a solid color and then resize it since it doesn't visualize the snap-to grid element (which it does).
So, as I said above, why is this limitation there in the first place? On my Note 2 I can't create a widget that goes to the top of my screen because it is out of bounds of my screen and when I go to add elements to the widget, they don't line up correctly unless I resize the widget background box to snap to below the top of my screen (by a good amount).
So, is it at least possible to have the default grid snap distance greatly reduced or give us an option to set it ourselves in regards to setting the widget itself?
I've encountered zero issue with moving elements within a widget box other than the inability to lock items individually once placed (that would truly help in them designing).
Sorry for any confusion, I'm not aware of the standard labels for the various design elements of a widget or the like.
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I get that the developers/designers are only doing themes for specific screen resolutions right now, but why is the core tools for creating custom Themer widgets restricted by large grid settings?
Confused as to what I mean? Please let me explain.
I can create a custom widget, which starts with the background box. But, in order to line the background box up with my home page background, I have to set the color of the background widget to a solid color and then resize it since it doesn't visualize the snap-to grid element (which it does).
So, as I said above, why is this limitation there in the first place? On my Note 2 I can't create a widget that goes to the top of my screen because it is out of bounds of my screen and when I go to add elements to the widget, they don't line up correctly unless I resize the widget background box to snap to below the top of my screen (by a good amount).
So, is it at least possible to have the default grid snap distance greatly reduced or give us an option to set it ourselves in regards to setting the widget itself?
I've encountered zero issue with moving elements within a widget box other than the inability to lock items individually once placed (that would truly help in them designing).
Sorry for any confusion, I'm not aware of the standard labels for the various design elements of a widget or the like.
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Hows it going? Im Bill from MCS.
Im a still a bit confused as to what you are asking and what tools it is that you are using in Themer that are giving you the issue.
Im sure you have already made sure that padding is turned OFF in the settings, but I have to say just to be safe.
IF you are getting spaced on the sides or top or your widget, you might want to check to see if you are using odd numbers for the Grid (rows and columns). Because of the way custom build widgets from WYSIWYG editors like Zooper and Everything widget render on the screen you might be a 1px gap if you are using odd numbered Rows or Columns in your grid.
This is the first thing I would check. I have seen an issue where for some reason I get a 2 or 4px padding on the top and bottom of the widgets. It only happens to me now and again. I can usually delete the widget and re-add it to get rid of the issue.