Looking for a nice clock or screensaver, preferebly with information displayed like weather, news, feeds, etc... I saw the droiddock one on the market, as well as a couple others, and no disrespect to the developers at all, but I'm just looking for something a little "prettier". I have a Tasker task that dims display, sets timeout for 20min on power connection, and I'd like to launch a dock app as well. And kill it on disconnect( works really well with the Palm Pixi wireless charging mod I did last weekend )
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Hi folks,
I have developed some applications for Pocket PC already, but now I have an idea, where my knowledge is not enough.
It is yet another today plugin for displaying weather data.
I have searched lots of differentprograms and plugins to display weather data and forecasts on the today screen, but none of them fits my needs.
I think of an application which can do the following:
A Today plugin that show a city, the actual temperature and a forecast of the next days in one line.
When tapping an icon left of the city you get a fullscreen applicationwith more options
When tapping the city, you get detailed information about the city (GPS-position, height, links to google-maps, links to wikipedia and so on)
When tapping the temperature you get a screen with actual weather data, temperature, wind, pressure, clouds, rain, snow. Also a history of the last 24 hours for the temperature (a small graph) to see when it was coldest and hottest the last 24 hours. I need this to see if I have to get up a bit earlier because the streets and my car may be frozen. The actual temperature right now is not enough for me.
If you tap on a forecast icon you get a detailed forecast for the selected day.
The options screen lets you select another city for the today plugin, manage your list of cities and connects withyour GPS. This way you can add the place where you actually are as a city for the today-plugin.
Furthermore you can display how far away from your location the next weather station is. I think this could be useful to know how accurate the data is. It is a difference if the next weather station is 100m away or 10 km.
You can also open another screen, where you can see your actual GPS position, heading, speed, travelled miles, average and maximum speed and the actual weather at your location. This way when driving my car, I know the temperature outside. Or when walkingin the mountains I have the forecast for the next hours.
Of course there are some settings screens and so on. Maybe I can even display actual satelite pictures.
I have found almost every of these functionalities in the programs I have tested, but not all funtions in one application. And some functions did not work in some of these applications.
However my knowledge of programming is not good enough to do this application alone.
Maybe there are some developers out there who like the idea and we can do a project together?
I have lots of more ideas what to do with such an application.
Anybody want to help?
greetings
Jürgen
Just curious to know if any of you folks are currently working on a way to customize the stock notification widgets inside the drop-down notification window?
This would be awesome as I personally would LOVE the ability to handle volume settings in the widget versus Airplane mode, GPS, and Sync toggles which are virtually useless to me, and I'd imagine a large group of other people.
Obviously, I'm in no way demanding or even expecting, just checking to see if anyone's doing anything with this from the development side.
Many thanks in advance!
-Ryan
Go Launcher offers I customizable widget to control almost anything including what you've mentioned. Granted it's on screen and not on the drop down, but fit the bill for you.
I have a cheap 7" tablet that I'd like to setup as a kitchen display. This is how I imagine using it:
1) At 6AM, tablet wakes up display, turn off display at 9AM.
2) AM: display traffic map, similar to the Inrix app.
3) AM: display weather for today
4) At 5PM: tablet wakes up display
5) PM: display weather data for next few days
You get the idea. I want some control over when the display wakes up. I'd also like it to perhaps switch apps like a demo unit - for example, show the weather on the display for 5 seconds, then switch to the traffic map for 30 seconds, then switch back to weather.
I've consider using just the desktop, and simply squeeze a weather widget and a google maps traffic widget in the same screen. But, I'd like the solution to be more extensible. So, later if I decide to display another piece of info, I can just time share the screen.
I think I can use Tasker to turn the display on/off at set times. But, I don't know of a way to make the tablet rotate between two or three different apps.
I might also use the tablet as a recipe book. So, I'd like the weather/traffic display feature to kick in automatically when the tablet stops being used.
I want to make use of my Galaxy S5 which is laying under the table hole time and I want your ideas.
My wish so far is to make it speak at loud current weather every 2h, for now I have app that says notifications at loud but I didn't find weather app that puts notifications with weather details as text every few hours, every weather app I installed so far just puts widget in notification area.
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I want to make use of my Galaxy S5 which is laying under the table hole time and I want your ideas.
My wish so far is to make it speak at loud current weather every 2h, for now I have app that says notifications at loud but I didn't find weather app that puts notifications with weather details as text every few hours, every weather app I installed so far just puts widget in notification area.
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You can do tons of ideas. One is to make your s5 a dash camera for your car. Another is to use it strictly as a music player in your car. You could also use it as one of those live picture frames. Creativity is key!
I managed to make it speak IFTT notifications about weather at loud for now, every morning and before going to bed.
I want it to be like some kind of info center that speaks useful informations through day, but don't have any other ideas.
Hi all,
I just got my Stratos and got a few questions wich I can't find here...
Running latest 2.3.7.
- I receive all my notifications double on my watch, no matter if it's Gmail, Outlook, Linkedin, Whatsapp etc etc. I only have the Amazfit app installed, nothing more.
- I there a way to adjust date format to EU standard (dd-mm-yyyy)?
- How can I add other sports/activities? I made one in the app but it doesn't show up in the watch. I want to track my Hiit training sessions like Les Mills Gritt (on fitbit yuo can use kickboxing or aerobis for this).
- I want to use the watch to control my music on my phone/tablet. Sometimes the music controller shows up in the watchface after swiping up but sometimes not and nitifications show up. How to call it in front?
- Every few seconds the watchface seems locked and I have to press middle button and after that upper before I can swipe the screen. Can you make this more easy?
- On my Garmin and Fitbit if I receive a notification I can see it directly on my watch without pressing buttons. How do I do that with the Stratos? Do I realy need to enter notification menu?
But most annoying for now is the double notification. Hope that someone can explain this to me...
edit: I just notice that the double notification is not exactly the same. If I get an email first notification is the email wich I can tap top open and read the whole email. 2nd notification is only a message with the subject which I can't open further.
edit2: seems like I receive 1 notification with that are emails. and a 2nd one with the email itself. Just recievd 4 mails in 5 seconds. Watch says: 1st notification you have got 4 outlook message. Then I have 4 extra notifications with those email messages.
Maybe it's because of Novalauncher/Teslaunread/Android one on my phone.
- Dateformat is not changeable in WFZ watchfaces, you have to search for an App WF
- No you can't create your own activities.
- music, no clue, don't use it.
- That is the reason why the watch has such a long battery live, if it goes into standby mode the screen is off.
- If you want a Garmin functionality, stay with garmin. This is how it works on the Stratos
Install watch Droid. Use that for all your notifications and to control music on the phone.
fzelle said:
- Dateformat is not changeable in WFZ watchfaces, you have to search for an App WF
- No you can't create your own activities.
- music, no clue, don't use it.
- That is the reason why the watch has such a long battery live, if it goes into standby mode the screen is off.
- If you want a Garmin functionality, stay with garmin. This is how it works on the Stratos
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In the Amazfit app you can make an sport. Howcome you can't import it to the watch, whats the use of that function then.
It's a sports watch but gym activities like weight lifting or cardio are not included.
My fitbit also uses the standby modus, but aftre flicking the wrist (like the stratos) it comes to live and unlocks itself. No need to push buttons.
I just wanted to try something different the Garmin and Fitbit and this one looked stylish for daily wear.
I hope I can sort the notifications out. That and sports are the mean reason I use a smart sport watch.
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Install watch Droid. Use that for all your notifications and to control music on the phone.
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Just installed it.
Is there an easy way to get in the notifications from watch droid?
I get around a notification every minute (busy job...)
You could install quick launcher so that you have easy access to watch Droid from the watch screen, but it interferes with custom keyboards if you're using those.
Alternately the paid version of watch Droid allows a notification to also be created within the watch notifications, which you can click to open the larger notification in watch droid
adityavaidya said:
You could install quick launcher so that you have easy access to watch Droid from the watch screen, but it interferes with custom keyboards if you're using those.
Alternately the paid version of watch Droid allows a notification to also be created within the watch notifications, which you can click to open the larger notification in watch droid
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Thanks for the tip, I'm gonna try that out...
I also am a sportinstructor and wanted to use the watch to start/stop the music on my ipad while teaching the class.
That mostly work (can't find out when it does and when it doesn't) but it's not working when I track the excersice in sport on the watch. Then you can't control the music.
Is there any way to control the music (on Ipad) when you are inside a sport activity?
Also I'm still missing a way to track my Hiit training sport activity. In some video's etc I see aerobics as an activity. That one I can use. But it's not in my stratos.
Haven't figured how to change music on the phone during an activity unfortunately.
Stratos doesn't have an option to track HIIT. Some people have reported using elliptical to track gym workouts, but I've not tried that