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It may depend on what phone you have but for HTC phones you can add a "Shortcut" of a person and have the shortcut be the whole contact card or just start an e-mail message (or any other contract related actions)
Long press on the home screen to bring up the "Add to Home" menu, select "Shortcut" then select "Person". Here you can select the person you want ...
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I'm not sure if this is HTC specific, but this is what I need to do to get a "direct dial" icon on my HTC desire.
Long press on where you want to add the icon
Hit 'Shortcut'
Hit 'Direct Dial'
Select the contact you want to use (if the contact has more than one number, you'll need to pick which one)
There should now be an icon that will have that ...
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There are two different kinds of Widget in Android:
AppWidget: a small view of an application (e.g. Weather widget) that can be embedded inside another application (e.g. Home Screen)
GUI Widget: buttons, textbox, etc; any visual interface element.
I believe you're talking about the former (AppWidget). An AppWidget always belongs to an App. An App that ...
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There is a dearth of official apps for google's own services on google's own mobile OS.
No official Google Reader App, no official widget.
That may be because they work on optimizing the mobile versions of those web-services, to obviate the need for an additional app. You've already got the browser -- why install an app for a web-service?
This 2008 ...
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The last three are GPS Receiver, Data Sync and Screen Brightness. As seen here.
And it looks like the Extended Controls app gives you even more control (android police article) and here it is on appbrain.
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You basically answered the question. A widget is a 'view' on an application that will update and can be embedded in apps like the home screen. A 'program' in the home screen sense is a static link to an full-screen application startup.
See the first para of the Android developer docs for more details about what a Widget is:
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Hey tolomea. I couldn't find a widget that could do all that but I did find this app that can.
World Watch is an advanced world clock for an editable list of locations around the world. Includes sunrise, sunset, dawn and dusk times for the current or a given calendar date. Also includes weather conditions and a 4-day forecast.
I haven't used it since ...
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I have the same issue, N7 with 4.2 with an Exchange Corporate Account that forces a password/pin.
You are correct that it has to do with corporate account. I removed my corporate account and was able to add widgets, even with the security still set to "password to unlock". I also changed to Pin and Slide to unlock and all of them worked as well.
I then ...
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It's possible that you're long-pressing the icon and then sliding it over to the other screen. This is also how you could put it back where you want it without deleting and re-adding the icon/widget. Several times I've inadvertantly rested a finger on the keyboard long enough to bring up the menu.
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I believe this should work - Widgetsoid2.x on Google Play
(I have verified that this allows you to create a toggle widget on ICS which does not go into settings app and does it work directly. Although since Wi-Fi Hotspot is not working on my custom ROM of ICS yet, I can't verify the actual working.)
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Technical answer: Yes.
Practical answer: It's hard.
You'll need:
"Manual intent shortcuts" app to add really custom shortcuts on the desktop ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.cwfk.ig88.intents ).
Plus: Knowledge how to generate a specific intent that does exactly what you want to do (install above app and see what information it wants, ...
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In short, you can't.
Only the application can interact with itself internally, unless an API was created for that end. External applications aren't able to know what to do in order to follow your desired "path".
The best you could achieve is opening the application, but you still needed to manually tap the buttons.
My recommendation:
I believe you are ...
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There are some technical reasons explained on the Android developers website that justify why the widget may have stopped working:
Any of this ones aren't recommended to move to an External Storage due to possible failure:
Services
Your running Service will be killed and will not be restarted when external storage is remounted. You can, however, ...
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If you haven't opened the application in a while, it will naturally disappear from the list of recent apps. Try opening it with the widget and then going back to the home screen. If gmail is once again under you list of recent apps, you just haven't opened it in a while. If it doesn't appear at all, then the widget you are using doesn't add gmail as a ...
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Maybe not entirely what you're asking for, but have you tried using AppBrain? It usually does the trick for me in finding any sort of app, widgets included. The screenshots are helpful.
To the secondary (not quite asked) question, I find Android Agenda Widget to be very easy on the eyes and highly themeable.
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mru is right about the Android and Me News Widget. Based on the dock at the bottom I'd also say mru's right about that being the Sense UI as well, which means the clock and weather widget is stock, but you can replicate it with these:
Weather Forecast & Clock Widget
Beautiful Widgets
I have the Fancy Widget but it's no longer available because HTC ...
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Beautiful Widgets installs a bunch of individual widgets that can be used. The one with the clock and weather is the "SuperClock" (or "Beautiful Home", maybe) widget. It sounds like you just need to select "Beautiful Weather 4x1" when picking a widget (unless the lock screen widget thingy doesn't give that choice - is that the case?).
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If you're using the stock launcher, you can't.
If you use an alternative launcher like Nova Launcher or Apex Launcher (one which has support for scrolling & resizable widgets), then you can. Put the gmail widget on your homescreen by long-pressing and selecting the label of choice. THen long-press the widget itself and from the popup menu, choose RESIZE ...
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I created a Task in Tasker called Silent that does this and created a widget that allows the one click behavior you are looking for.
Basically Silent is just a set of tasks that set the notification/ringer/system volume/etc to level 0. Here is the XML for the Silent.tsk.xml if you want to import it.
<class cl="Task" sr="">
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I am the developer of Locale.
To get started, please read this article on our website about toggling 3G which should answer your questions: http://feedback.twofortyfouram.com/forums/5655-locale-feedback/suggestions/67867-3g-support-for-network-setting?ref=title
From that article, I think you'll find that using APNDroid will be the best solution: it is ...
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Here you go. Just move the icon to your homepage as a shortcut and you're good to go :)
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In android you can create a shortcut to do that:
Long press on home screen, a menu will pop up with title "Add to Home";
From there choose "shortcut" -> "Person";
Choose the person you want and then select the default action like call or message. For you it will be call.
You'll see the icon of that person on the home screen upon pressing which will make ...
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The only interactions presently supported by app widgets on the home screen are simple click events. So the answer to your question is no, drag & drop isn't available with widgets. The reason the native folders can do this is because they are just part of the launcher activity so can be programmed to do more complex things than the widgets can
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Widgetsoid will allow a user to create a bar of toggles - add the MOBILE DATA toggle in the network section. Then tapping that will toggle the data connection.
Of course - a search turned up many other dedicated options. Try and use whichever you like best.
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Yes. From the widget, select the contact name (not image). This brings you to the contact info. Select the chain link in the upper right hand corner (it should say Linked in your specific example). Finally, select the image in the upper left corner. You can select the image source from there. I tested it on the HTC incredible.
EDIT: I was originally ...
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Take a look at GOTO Lock Screen- supposedly it is fast. It lets you stay on top of your text messages, missed calls, and Gmail notifications all with a simple slide gesture.
A detailed feature list is available here.
Re-reading your question, I see you want widgets to use in conjunction with WidgetLocker - what sms app are you using? Handcent has a medium ...
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According to my market, market differs according to your country, there is no "official google reader" app.
May I suggest downloading NewsRob, it's in the market and there are two versions; paid and free, and even the free version features a widget to launch the application, which is simple and light, and it even has a very good feature, you can make the app ...
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I think the "Task Manager" app was available from the Samsung Apps store in Android 2.1, I seem to remember downloading it from there at some point along with the "My Files" app. You can try going into Applications list on your phone, finding the "Samsung Apps" icon and looking through the list in there.
If your phone is running Android 2.2 then the Task ...
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Instead of widget use apps like data switch. Unlike widget this app doesn't consume resource when idle. There are tons of other apps/widget if you don't like this one or this one doesn't work for you. For eg:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.aispl.mdsswitch
https://market.android.com/details?id=ru.chernish2
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This thread goes way back but I still were unable to find one in the market that seems to fit the description, so I made one myself. Get it here:
The widget updates hourly, and currently there is no way to configure that.
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