I've been noticing a lot of bloatware and annoying "New Themes!" notifications from Go Launcher Ex. While Go Launcher Ex is still amazing, I don't like the unsolicited Ads. One big feature I miss dearly is the Go Contacts Widget. It displays your starred contacts in a neat and orderly fashion in one clean widget. Does anyone know of a free/cheap alternative Go Contacts Widget for this I could use with other launchers?
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I've been noticing a lot of bloatware and annoying "New Themes!" notifications from Go Launcher Ex. While Go Launcher Ex is still amazing, I don't like the unsolicited Ads. One big feature I miss dearly is the Go Contacts Widget. It displays your starred contacts in a neat and orderly fashion in one clean widget. Does anyone know of a free/cheap alternative Go Contacts Widget for this I could use with other launchers?
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It it possible to use launcher specific widgets (Facebook, Twitter, Calendar Widgets of GoLauncher/Launcher Pro) on another launcher (Im using default MIUI). Or does anyone know of a similar calendar widget to that of LauncherPro? (I know of Pure Grid Calendar but it looks ugly)
Thanks
I am trying to get away from sense for obvious reasons. I'm only missing the friendstream, news, twitter scrollable widgets. Shopping revealed Pure Messenger/News widget as a viable option. Although to be useful to me it needs to be scrollable.
-Running CM7 nightlies #130
-ADW Launcher stock with CM7
-Verizon Droid Incredible 2
-Rooted, obviously.
Pure Messenger states that ADW is supported, but scrollable widgets must be enabled and it isn't currently. I find no setting for scrollable widget enable and the documentation for this version (latest) doesn't list it. However a previous version had a setting from what I find online. Maybe the non CM7 version?
Anyone have a solution for pure messenger or alternative app? I'm certain many people running CM7 desire these widgets so there must be a solution but a search didn't reveal anything within 6 months.
Note: I was having this same issue with other phones, and other launchers [read: go launcher, launcher pro], so this should apply to everyone. Including me when I buy the Galaxy Nexus upon release.
Regards, JAWyered.
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I love colorize widgets and android pro widgets (both very similar and have a nice timeline feature with the paid versions) adw does support scrolling widgets but I'm not sure if you need the ex version for that(that's the version I have) I also don't see a setting for it but both my colorize widgets and android pro widgets scroll automatically
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I gave up on the Pure Widgets and went with Colorize. Scrolling works fine and I got the paid version and it looks really nice.
I thought the Pure Widgets were the most popular which would lead to less bugs and better support but obviously not.
Now the only problem is Colorize doesn't have a RSS feed selector or news widget like sense but I think I can get around it with customizing Google RSS feeds.
Thanks for the reply.
Regards, JAWyered. Sent from DInc2.
Ok, somebody should explain the need for scrollable widgets, or indeed most widgets, to me.
You swipe homescreens to get to the one you want, e.g Calender, Twitter.. and then you scroll it to find what you want etc...
Why not just open the Twitter or Calender app instead?
This sums up my pet peave with Android really. So much bloat. So much unnecessary carp. Why do one thing well when you can do it three different ways, badly.
I'm still not sold on the idea of multiple homescreens, in fact i'm as perplexed by the notion now as i was three years ago. Android has an app drawer. It has shortcuts for every app within. Open app drawer, select shortcut, use app! Why would i need shortcuts all over my homescreen?
And while i'm busy derailing the thread with my rant, what's with the honking great clocks and weather on the homescreens? There's a clock in the status bar and the weather is right outside. Use a window!
Obviously i'm in the minority here so i'll just crawl quietly back into my minimalistic hole. Good to get it off the chest though!
Ok so the s planner widget is great, but it doesnt work on Nova launcher, what apps could make a good replacement for it for non tw launchers?
LordRalh3 said:
Ok so the s planner widget is great, but it doesnt work on Nova launcher, what apps could make a good replacement for it for non tw launchers?
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Even with the stock launcher I prefer the Pure Grid Calendar widget. Very customizable, themable, but mostly I like when you touch a day, it shows the appointments as a list rather than the timetable. So everything is visible immediately rather than scrolling down to later in the day.
Good morning.
Before having the Z3C, I had an HTC and I loved Blinkfeed.
Is there an app that replicates the aspect and features of Blinkfeed?
Thanks.
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I guess the most similar would be flipboard
Try http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2735764
Thanks.
Is flipboard able to view Facebook status update like Blinkfeed?
I tried Blinkfeed launcher, but I have some problems with widgets, so I'd prefer to continue using Nova.
Alan Slade said:
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Is flipboard able to view Facebook status update like Blinkfeed?
I tried Blinkfeed launcher, but I have some problems with widgets, so I'd prefer to continue using Nova.
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Yes, just that it's not a launcher
I use Flipboard with Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn feeds integrated, but only as an app.
If you want something scrollable as a widget, I'd recommend looking at either Wizz or APW widgets. Both of them have Twitter and Facebook widgets that work really well. I keep one 5x5 widget for each of FB and Twitter on a separate homescreen.
There is a blinkfeed mod somewhere on xda.
Hi,
I really love the look of the TouchWiz Widgets-
I found several touchwiz exclusives...
- Weather
- Calendar
- Location
- Magnifier
And I really love my Action Launcher 3. But I cannot have those widgets on Action Launcher...
Of course, I can install the 3rd party apps. But Weather widget will not be coherent with the weather in my lock screen and edge screen.
I am not going to get the Magnifier widget.
I googled a lot but I couldn't find the solution. Anyone knows how I can bring the widgets to the 3rd part launchers?
eecho said:
Hi,
I really love the look of the TouchWiz Widgets-
I found several touchwiz exclusives...
- Weather
- Calendar
- Location
- Magnifier
And I really love my Action Launcher 3. But I cannot have those widgets on Action Launcher...
Of course, I can install the 3rd party apps. But Weather widget will not be coherent with the weather in my lock screen and edge screen.
I am not going to get the Magnifier widget.
I googled a lot but I couldn't find the solution. Anyone knows how I can bring the widgets to the 3rd part launchers?
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Unfortunately this is generally not possible, as the widget hooks into the launcher itself and probably does not present itself as available to other launchers the way a normal widget does. I wish it were possible but I'm afraid it's not.
ThugEsquire said:
Unfortunately this is generally not possible, as the widget hooks into the launcher itself and probably does not present itself as available to other launchers the way a normal widget does. I wish it were possible but I'm afraid it's not.
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I see. I decided to use Action launcher with 3rd party apps...
By the way, I am from GS3 and I really love the TouchWiz Calendar. It has weather icons inside.