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[Android Apps and Games] mahercs:
My patience has run out...I sadly had to delete the app after many years of usage. I have a different calendar widget that is on par, if not slightly better. I just use my browser to pull my Facebook feeds. No point in hanging onto something that no longer provides function or value. It seems the best apps eventually fail at some point, or just can't keep up with the changes, regardless of why. (I know this was a change Facebook put in place to force users to get their app, but that is never happening on my devices!)
[Android Apps and Games] timeToy:
Some of us still rely on APW (timeline+calendar) and are looking forward to an update that can display FB!

PM me if you need some testing.
[Android Apps and Games] wilekcmc:
I just picked up APW and the Facebook and messager widgets don't work, haven't tried the others yet.

Any recommendations on a fix or better widget to use?

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] lubczyk:
The Favorites widget doesn't show the pictures of my contacts. Does anyone know how to fix this?
[Android Apps and Games] Alef_0:
Same me
[Android Apps and Games] yonigold:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.goldgames.thewheel&hl=en
[Android Apps and Games] Vulpix:
Any reason why the calender widget is without scrolling?
[Android Apps and Games] roee88:
https://apw.uservoice.com/forums/126487-general/suggestions/2108519-scrollable-calendar
[Android Apps and Games] lawalty:
OMG! I could never find an app that does what this app does since I came from the Vibrant touchwiz rom, which now im on a G2 and these apps as A KEEPER!

I immediately purchased the licensing key when I tested the free version!

AWESOME APP!!!
[Android Apps and Games] nessqn:
I like the linear skin the most.Somehow it makes the widgets occupy more screen space.
[Android Apps and Games] roee88:
Theme makers can decide the padding of the widget. BSThemes have set this to zero which make it use as much space as possible.
[Android Apps and Games] kwankl:
Facebook widget cannot view photo directly. Colorzie widget has this function.
[Android Apps and Games] roee88:
This is already on our TODO list. Follow apw.uservoice.com

So? The fact that this feature exits in another product doesn't make it a must have. For now if you really want a picture viewer and still use APW use the Integrate With option with either Facebook App or FriendCaster.
[Android Apps and Games] mclad:
What launcher are you using? I like the bottom row of dense buttons.
[Android Apps and Games] quertiy:
VTL launcher.
[Android Apps and Games] Erm@c:
If it is possible, to improve compatibility with Xperia Home Launcher.

The calendar perfectly works. Widgets of messages and contacts are established, work. Scrolling including. But itself launcher starts to brake at scrolling. And periodically at a paging of contacts the error of process takes off and launcher is restarted.
[Android Apps and Games] gembo:
Nice
[Android Apps and Games] roee88:
I will install the Xperia Home Launcher on my phone and test.

I'm not sure there is much I can do though. Most of it is handled by the launcher itself (including scrolling, creating and viewing the widgets).

It could also be a lack of memory issue although we minimized usage as much as possible (Nothing is forced to be kept in memory unless there is absolutely no other way). If that's the case I would also advice limiting the contacts widget to favorites instead of all contacts.

If there is any bug in our widgets I will fix it.

Thanks you for the report.
[Android Apps and Games] Erm@c:
In options I choose group the favorites. There at me 16 contacts. Tried various variants of display. And on frequency of calls and alphabetically and even to set own groups with the order.

I will be very grateful if will try to make something.

Well and certainly almost all owners new SE will be yours. ;)
[Android Apps and Games] hrvoje123:
+1 here

As a matter a fact I have a problem with contacts widget in general. After placing 4x4 widget, with 12 favourites from phonebook, app pulls 11 of them and becomes unresponsive. However few times it managed to make one direct phonecall, and that's it. I tried every possible setting available but with no luck.

Can you explain wich contact field from phonebook contact app is pulling? Maybe is something wrong with my contacts....

Please, exploreit cause this is most eye candy widget (especially people one) I've ever tried...and I tried a lot of those!

Keep up the excellent work!!!!

Thanx in advance!!!

BR

Hrvoje
[Android Apps and Games] roee88:
Does the problem exist on your sensation as well? Or only on your SE Arc?

Does checking 'show hidden contacts' adds the missing favorite?

And what click action are you using?
[Android Apps and Games] beef_lover:
Great app! Love the look of this.

I noticed one thing though... for the agenda widget, not all birthdays are shown. I noticed that only the birthdays with the year of birth entered in Google contacts is shown. If I only enter "October 20" as the birthday, it does not show in the calendar. Is there a workaround for this? Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] roee88:
We use Time.parse3339 for parsing the date for contacts events.

I don't know what format is used to store non full dates.

I'll look into it when I get some more free time. If you find this piece of info just let me know ;)
[Android Apps and Games] beef_lover:
Hmm.. I did an export from my Google contacts, and here's the formatting I get:

With the year: 10/20/2011

Without the year: --10-20

Not sure if this is the actual formatting used on the server, but there's a good chance it is :)
[Android Apps and Games] roee88:
Thanks. Will be supported on next update (next week?).
[Android Apps and Games] rayhodge02:
Nice app I'm going to check this on my xoom
[Android Apps and Games] beef_lover:
Wow, quick response and updates. NICE!

Gonna go buy the license now...
[Android Apps and Games] hrvoje123:
Hi roee88,

Thanx for quick reply!

Nope, on Sensation I haven't such issue, and no, 'show hidden contacts' doesn't help either.

I'm using direct call action.

But after playing with themes I found out that changing themes and particular theme settings results in showed contacts number. For example, after applying S23-xtg theme, all contacts are shown (also my missing 12th contact) but immediately after selecting "use thin frame" option, 12th contact disappears! Also, if I refresh widget afterwards, it becomes unresponsive to making calls, so I have to delete it and set it on the home screen again.

I know it sounds a little bit crazy and mixed up, but I really found a pattern to recreate the problem again.

But after all, I can manage without one contact, so consider this just as a help in developing.

Thanx and keep up the great work!...looking forward for the next update!

Cheers
[Android Apps and Games] okan22:
amazing work...this is exatly what I was looking for

is it possible to have 2 different widget for agenda and calendar??
[Android Apps and Games] roee88:
Totaly ;)

Can you please contact me on email (dr.appche@gmail.com) ?

okan22 - What the difference between that and adding the calendar widget twice and changing one to agenda view?

Or maybe you want a 'show events popup' feature in the calendar view?
[Android Apps and Games] okan22:
:p:p

you are right roee88 I didn't think about it :D:D

the pop up I think would be very nice!!

What about HTC like weather widget? ?

thanks for the reply
[Android Apps and Games] idelgado782:
Love apw!! I've recommended it on brainmasters miui thread because someone was looking for launcherpro like Widgets. I can't live without my calendar (agenda view), twitter/fb & Google reader Widgets on my homescreens! Thanks for your work guys!
[Android Apps and Games] roee88:
This is a completely different type of widget and we don't believe it can be done better than what others already have done. I recommend Fancy Widgets for that.

Just a status update, we are working on calendar compatibility with ICS (everything else is already designed to work with ICS) and will release an update as soon as it's done.
[Android Apps and Games] becurious:
people widget: much smaller font size in list view

I just tried and immediately bought APW. Really nice - especially theme support and customization options appeal to me.

I only use people, calendar/agenda and messaging widgets though.

To my shame I have a complaint about the people widget. Being on a text heavy theme on my Android (e.g. Minimalistic Text widgets) I prefer list view.

But ...

... font size in list view is way too BIG.

I'm on X small (x0.8) and grid size 3x.. (resized in Go Launcher EX) is almost and 2x.. completely unusable. Even on 4x.. longer names are truncated.

For example: I have a lot of friends with the name "Alex". In 2x4 I see a long list of people just tagged "Alex". How shall I distinct one from another? In 3x.. some last names appear, but only the short ones. It takes a 4x widget to show most of the names (still not the longer ones in all their extent). However 4x4 is a little overblown imo.

In grid view though the font size is fine, as it is much smaller.

So I opt for three improvements in the people widgets' list view:

1.) reduction of font size by - let's say - half

2.) line breaks for the smaller font sizes which allow two lines (for 2x..)

3.) option to remove contact icons or contact names

In particular 1.) would make the list view usable in the end.

Thanks a lot

btw

LG O3D (stock rom 2.2)

Go Launcher EX (5x5 grid)

default system font
[Android Apps and Games] roee88:
You are right, I assumed 4 columns would be the choice for most people and set the default font for people and bookmarks lists to be quite big.

I'll add it to the TODO list for a future update (not the next one though).

Thanks for the feedback :)
[Android Apps and Games] becurious:
Great news!

Thanks a lot roee88! You're really quick and helpful.
[Android Apps and Games] Carrot Cruncher:
hi. i'm just trying out this app before buying. all looks great although i have one question. in the people widget, should i see all the contacts from all the accounts i'm syncing ? i only seem to see my google contacts but not, for example, my facebook contacts. cheers.
[Android Apps and Games] roee88:
On vanilla Android you can change in the Contacts application the accounts to display contacts from (Open contacts -> Menu -> Display Options -> Choose contacts to display).

By default APW only show contacts from accounts that are set to visible in these settings (Note that some ROMs completely break this functionality).

You can change it to show all contacts in the widget's preferences:

Show Hidden Contacts - will show contacts from all groups regardless of the display option in the contacts app.

Only contacts with phone - UnCheck to see all contacts even if they don't have a phone number visible.
[Android Apps and Games] Carrot Cruncher:
thanks for the quick response. everything in the contacts app is as i'd expect, all my facebook/twitter/etc. contacts are listed. i've also checked the "Show Hidden Contacts" option in the widget but this doesn't seem to make any difference. should have mentioned, i'm running the latest cyanogenmod rom and using the "go launcher ex" launcher.
[Android Apps and Games] roee88:
Can you see the twitter contacts in the widget ?

I just checked and indeed Facebook contacts are not visible.

Facebook decided to make their contacts private. Only system applications can see them. This is why on most non system apps Facebook pictures are not visible (we used a security hack to get those. We can do the same to make all Facebook contacts visible but I'm not sure it would be a wise thing to do, although GO Contact Widget actually do it).
[Android Apps and Games] shorty1483:
roee88

Is any kind of ICS widget theme planned from you side?;)

Something like sonnysekhons LP ICS theme? https://market.android.com/details?id=com.sonny.lp.ics

That would be great. Looked over you tutorial to theme, but after 5 mins, I got TILT button over my head :D
[Android Apps and Games] Carrot Cruncher:
@roee88. sorry, yes, i can see my twitter (and skype) contacts. i don't have many of these so missed them. it does appear to be just my facebook contacts that are missing. i had used the go contact widget before which is why i was expecting to see them in this widget. thanks for the explanation.
[Android Apps and Games] roee88:
Currently not.

We encourage themers to do it. My graphics abilities are quite limited :)

The guide can be threatening but it can be very simple:

- Setup eclipse + Android sdk

- Add the template project that looks the closest to what you want

- Change the images

Anyway, I'll contact sonnysekhons and ask him to port his themes.
[Android Apps and Games] idelgado782:
That would be awesome!!
[Android Apps and Games] roee88:
sonnysekhons Just published two themes.

If you haven't noticed earlier themes its a good opportunity to mention all themes developed by third party developers.

By sonnysekhons

APW Theme Lucid

APW Theme Ice Cream Sandwich

By BSThemes:

APW Theme Synergy

APW Theme Linear

By signals23:

Android Pro Widgets s23 XTG/CL

APW s23 BLURPS-GREY

Android Pro Widgets s23 CLOUDS

By UpwardSpiral:

Blue Bionic LPP / APW Theme

Red Remix LPP / APW Theme

Galaxy Green LPP / APW Theme

Minimal Magic LPP / APW Theme

Punk Pink LPP / APW Theme

Purple Punch LPP / APW Theme

Orange Octane LPP / APW Theme
[Android Apps and Games] idelgado782:
Very cool! Looking forward to testing out on my nexus!! Thanks guys!
[Android Apps and Games] becurious:
Thx. Much appreciated.
[Android Apps and Games] roee88:
djdarkknight96 published several new themes today.

Check out his thread here

For the 1.1.9 update - I have a working version but it lacks a calendar selection option. Although just the UI part for that is missing it will take some time until I will upload it to the Market (hopefully not too much) because the semester just started and I haven't found enough time to work on it. Sorry.
[Android Apps and Games] idelgado782:
Hey guys! I just finished flashing brainmasters tweaked rom of ics and when trying to install the calendar widget on the desktop it keeps force closing. The twitter/facebook time widget hasnt given me any issues. Does the app need to be updated to fully support ics?? Thanks in advance!
[Android Apps and Games] roee88:
Except for the calendar the widgets would work.

I just need a free day to release the (horribly delayed) update that will add full ics support.

As I said before the only thing not ready is calendar selection. I promise to find the time to finish it asap. Sorry.

For the guys with arc:

I researched the issues reported here and even decomplied the launcher apk and found its scrollable widgets code full of bugs and really partial.

I've made some changes in APW to make it work better but it is still far from perfect. Hopefully s.e will release ics update soon and make this issue irrelevant.
[Android Apps and Games] idelgado782:
Thanks for the quick response roe! Glad to see you knew about the issue! I'll use the stock calendar widget for now and keep my eye on this thread!
[Android Apps and Games] roee88:
Is there any TouchDown user here?

Is it possible to set up an exchange account just for testing? (I have no access to any).
[Android Apps and Games] roee88:
Anyone using ICS ROM willing to test the attached beta version.

Mostly interested in testing the calendar widget.

Thanks !

http://www.box.com/s/oy7pb37m07aj40vzaigu

Edit: updated to v2
[Android Apps and Games] idelgado782:
Going to download and test RIGHT now! Looking forward to having it working!

I love my Nexus S more and more everyday!
[Android Apps and Games] idelgado782:
Update: calendar is no longer force closing. However its only showing the birthdays. When I try to configure the calendar options it shows a black screen and I'm not able to choose anything. Also the messenger widget does not show contact pictures.

I love my Nexus S more and more everyday!
[Android Apps and Games] roee88:
Thanks idelgado782 ;)

Can you please try again? (v2 is available on the same link).
[Android Apps and Games] idelgado782:
you got it. Going to try now.

Edit:

Much better now.

OK so now I'm able to see the calendars selection screen. Everything showed up according to what I have. The only issue I have is that I can't see the colors that correspond to my calendars.

I love my Nexus S more and more everyday!
[Android Apps and Games] roee88:
Got it ;)

I thought android finally support per event coloring but I was wrong. According to the docs the EVENT_COLOR field is reserved for future use. I will change it back to CALENDAR_COLOR as in previous versions.

Other than that everything works? Have you tried clicking on the header to open the calendar? Does quick event work? Can you add events with quick event disabled?

Thanks!

---

I will upload a new beta tomorrow and an official update in a few days (still trying to make it work well with the SE Launcher and still hoping for a way to test touchdown).
[Android Apps and Games] idelgado782:
Roe it seems like quick events is not working properly. I keep trying to add events but they are not showing up on my calendar. I'm able to add events to the calendar with quick events disabled. Pressing the header takes me to the calendar very quickly with no issues.

I uploaded the wrong pic earlier but the messenger widget doesn't show the contact picture.

I tested all the other Widgets and encountered no immediate issues. All headers work as should when pressed. No force closes. I'll keep you posted if I encounter anything else.

I wanted to ask you of it was OK if I share this beta on BM's ice thread because I know there was at least one other member having the calendar issue.

Thanks for sharing it with me and I'll be back tomorrow to test the other beta!! :thumbup: :D

I love my Nexus S more and more everyday!
[Android Apps and Games] Ozgurce:
It must be some way to buy this! In turkey, market doesn't give permission to buy items on market. That sucks! I really need that widget! :/ :(
[Android Apps and Games] roee88:
http://www.box.com/s/oy7pb37m07aj40vzaigu

Updated to beta 3. Please let me know if there are any improvements.

Sure you can.

I will try to publish the next version on AndroidPit which allows PayPal.
[Android Apps and Games] idelgado782:
Long day at work today. Just got home and catching up with my forum updates. :D I just downloaded. I will test and let you know. I am also going to share on the ics thread. Thanks roe!

I love my Nexus S more and more everyday!
[Android Apps and Games] idelgado782:
OK everything is running great so far. The calendar widget is working as it should be including the quick event feature. No force closes. The colors associated with my calendars are also working as should! Thank you for that.

The only thing is the contact pics not showing in the messaging widget. Do you know what that could be?

I love my Nexus S more and more everyday!
[Android Apps and Games] roee88:
I'm almost frustrated about that.

The previous beta used code from the Android documentation itself (copy past!) yet it didn't work on ICS.

The current beta (last one you tried) use the PHOTO_THUMBNAIL_URI field in exactly the same way the people widget does but retrieves it for a single contact instead of all. I can't think of any reason it doesn't work :confused:

Edit: that being said.. I will fix it eventually ;)
[Android Apps and Games] idelgado782:
Lol! I'm sure you will! Thanks for giving me an opportunity to test and help out!! I always keep an eye on this thread as I love apw!

I love my Nexus S more and more everyday!
[Android Apps and Games] Italian_Custom_Style:
THose widgets are simply wonderful!!
[Android Apps and Games] roee88:
http://www.box.com/s/oy7pb37m07aj40vzaigu

Updated to beta5.

If there are no critical bugs I will upload it to the market tomorrow.

Still no Touchdown support nor full SE Launcher support (although at least it should update now). Have been busy w/ other stuff
[Android Apps and Games] idelgado782:
Going to try now and if I encounter something I'll report.

I love my Nexus S more and more everyday!
[Android Apps and Games] roee88:
Can you see the thumbnails in the messaging widget?
[Android Apps and Games] idelgado782:
Hey roe sorry about that. Ive been busy at work. Tried the widget and the contact pics show up! Thanks for that!

I love my Nexus S more and more everyday!
[Android Apps and Games] Ozgurce:
I'll wait for it.
[Android Apps and Games] roee88:
1.1.9 uploaded to the Android Market.

Changelog:

ICS compatibility

5x5 and 5x4 widget sizes.

[Calendar] Calendars selection

[Calendar] Experimental 'Calendar calibration' for better text quality.

[Agenda] Show event location.

[Twitter] Better internal viewer links, share option, fixed reply, integration with Twitter for Android, Seesmic, Plume and Web.

[Facebook] Integration with Seesmic.

[QuickEvent] A few fixes and better handling of voice input.

idelgado782

Thank you very much for testing!

Özgürce

I'll upload APW License Key to AndroidPIT tomorrow.
[Android Apps and Games] idelgado782:
no problem roe! Thanks for responding to the initial issue I posted about and working to get it fixed! I LOVE this app! Can't live without! :thumbup:

I love my Nexus S more and more everyday!
[Android Apps and Games] roee88:
Android Pro Widgets 1.2.0

Quick update for issues discovered in 1.1.9.

Fixed some widgets sizes not updating

Fixed calendar widget providers detection

Add option for changing scrolling type when more than one is available (Intended for users with 3rd party launchers on Honeycomb/ICS)

Özgürce - I'm getting difficulties uploading paid apps to AndroidPIT so it takes more time than expected.
[Android Apps and Games] everlethal:
Is it possible to add support for more browsers bookmarks? Opera and Dolphin for example.

All Tornado
[Android Apps and Games] roee88:
I emailed both companies and they declined my request (read: they don't allow accessing bookmarks list).
[Android Apps and Games] AleRock94:
I have three suggestions for your application. If you insert them, APW will be perfect for me!

1. Translate everything also in the italian language (widgets included). I can help you if you want!

2. Please, upgrade the quality of the icons in all the widgets!

3. Add the ability to see the bookmarks list of "Maxthon Mobile Browser" in the bookmarks widget.

Thank you so much for your work, I'm happy it's appreciated by a lot of people. You deserve it! ;)

-- EDIT --

Another suggestion:

4. Let the user decide if he wants to have a "Refresh" button on every widget (it will be useful for Facebook and Twitter widgets, for example).

Thank you again! :)
[Android Apps and Games] roee88:
Italian is already supported (change from main app's settings window).

It is a little outdated so if you give me your email address I'll send you an invitation to the translation project.

I'm not a designer (as you can see :p)

If any graphic designer volunteers to improve the app/widgets icons it would be awesome.

I'll check if it's possible.

If the preferences button is already there I see no reason to remove the refresh button. It is already possible however to create a theme that removes the refresh button from some widgets (maybe also moves the preferences button to the top bar). No themer has done it yet but it can be done.
[Android Apps and Games] roee88:
About Maxthon Mobile Browser,

Does it show thumbnails for bookmarks? Or just the website icon?

Edit: Nevermind. Not possible. They lock access to bookmarks provider unless the browser is currently open. Sorry.

I'll email them with request to change it.