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[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
The solution to the app showing up as free after you clear that data is to open Recast, choose the overflow icon (the three vertical dots in the upper right hand corner of the action bar), choose About, then choose Validate License. That should ask Google Play Store for your license keys again. Only if that process fails should you have to reinstall the app.
[Android Apps and Games] NaabKing:
Hey,

what do i need to do, cuz i want to translate app to Slovenian language? :P But i'm not sure how long it will last since i'm kinda bussy with college. And can i translate the app in 2 steps? First i would translate just important lines, like days of the week, weather and others (except options) and later, when ill have more time i can translate options too? Cuz i think the most important is to translate everything except options, since this is what you see the most and options for later? :)
[Android Apps and Games] Jimi Mack:
I have purchased Recast and all in all I think it is fine. One issue I have come across is when I use a Time/Date widget and have the date or time set to trigger my app calendar it just opens my browser and goes to Google Calendar. Should it not open the calendar app it's self that I use on the phone as opposed to going to the Google webpage. I was reading about the calendar issues back in the July posts and then all of a sudden they stopped. Has this been corrected, am I have an issue on my end or is this still an issue with Recast? Thank you for your assistance.
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
NaabKing, we would be glad to have your help on translations. Please contact us through the form on the Recast web site below, with your Google ID ready, and we can take it from there:

http://recast.phase2i.com/translate/

We will not provide a language in the Recast APK until it is fully completed. This is because there are some odd artifacts that occur when bouncing between different language codes and falling back to English. Our plan would be to wait until you have all of the strings translated and then incorporate them into a beta build to look at.

We look forward to working with you, and thanks for volunteering!
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
Jimi Mack, the reason you haven't seen any more talk about the calendar feature is that according to everyone we talked to, and all of our own testing, the issue was resolved back in the summer months. You are the first person to contact us since that time and tell us that something isn't working.

Recast only falls over to the browser if it cannot find a supported calendar. In most cases, the device manufacturer has either deliberately removed the Google Calendar or has named it so differently from the stock app that Recast cannot locate it.

To date, we have tested Recast on Nexus devices, Samsung devices, Sony devices, Motorola devices and some CyanogenMod devices and in almost all cases (save for the GoogleTV boxes) we have found the calendar app and work well. Perhaps you have some device or OS combination that we have not yet seen?
[Android Apps and Games] Jimi Mack:
I am using the HTC Rezound with the stock calendar app. I found it odd, that other weather and or date apps I have used had no issue locating the included calendar app. And even if I was using a 3rd party calendar app, if the OS can see the add on as the selected app to use for the calendar shouldn't Recast as well?
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
Thanks for the information. We'll have to look into HTC devices to see why yours isn't working as expected.

For reference, having a specific app or type of app on the device does not mean it is announced or exposed to all apps on that device. Recast uses specific Android SDK calls to activate the calendar (and time) display, and those calls are standardized by Google. If an app, such as a 3rd party calendar, does not listen for, implement or follow the SDK for these calls then there isn't anything Recast (or other SDK apps) can do to support it without custom coding and extra time. The reason we use these calls is because they are supposed to be standardized across all devices.

Given the incredibly large number of Android devices, OEMs, and ROM flavors available today it is impossible for any developer to claim that a specific feature or function works 100% on each customer's phone or tablet. We count on the fact that OEMs will do "the right thing" and implement their custom apps, widgets and hardware functions according to the Google Android specifications. It seems that at least in this case, HTC did not do so, leaving us to do some detective work to find out why. Hopefully this helps clarify the issue while we investigate it.
[Android Apps and Games] NaabKing:
Done, waiting for reply (=
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
A reply should now be sent. We welcome your help!
[Android Apps and Games] NaabKing:
No problem (=

And i have to say you guys did a very good job choosing that way to translate, cuz it really helps a LOT, cuz sometimes you just cant remember the word, but here Google mostly translates it and finds the words and i just correct the sentences to be accurate for what they mean.

So, thumbs up for the choosing this translation page and Google ^^
[Android Apps and Games] Jimi Mack:
I thank you for your quick and detailed response and look forward to your resolution to the issue. While I hope it works to my favor. LOL
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
We sometimes forget that there are new folks out there that are just starting to use Recast.

Some of these customers haven't found out all of the features, options and things that can be customized with Recast. So we made the video below to address just such a case.

A new customer asked "how do I change the weather location that my widget shows?" So if you have wondered about this question your answer has arrived!

[YOUTUBE]AM09DZVUXcs[/YOUTUBE]
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
We wanted to take a moment to thank everyone for their support and feedback during 2012.

Recast has come a long way since we started testing it here at XDA and many of you had a hand in that! We do really appreciate the effort and information you've shared with us, and it has made Recast a better project.

We also wanted to let everyone know that we are still working on and improving Recast, albeit at a slower pace. We have some great features coming up, like official Android lockscreen widgets on 4.2.x devices, more widget layouts with new info in them, new translations, more ways to customize, etc. We have also continued to search for additional free weather providers to expand the sources (and possibly accuracy) of the forecasts. We know this is a sore point with some folks and we're trying to improve this issue where we can.

Finally, keep letting us know what you would like to see in a future version of Recast. We're working on a better way to let everyone know what features have already been requested and what we're working on now. It is your feedback that keeps us pointed in the right direction so thank you for that input.

We hope that everyone has safe and happy holidays and a great start to 2013.
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
Recast, Impel and Android, for the holidays. :)
[Android Apps and Games] NaabKing:
Wish you guys all the best too (=
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
Thank you. Once we get the holidays behind us we should be able to make more progress on our next releases. In the meantime we hope everyone has a happy holiday season and a happy new year.
[Android Apps and Games] LifeInAnalog:
.. Same to you, and to your families. Its been rewarding being a part of the process, and seeing Recast grow. Continued success in the new year!
[Android Apps and Games] flava69:
Just bought this app after trying beta version, tried it for few mins and that was enough for me to buy it, you done one hell of a job on this app, everything is done so neat and cool and the layouts are wonderful, just a question tho is there any chance we could have a notification icon and also in our pull down tray? :)
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
flava69, thanks for the feedback!

Yes, we have the notification tray option in our "investigation" queue for a future release. We have some other "must have" features and fixes that we need to get done before putting that in, but we will get back to that request.

If you have any other requests or ideas, feel free to send them along. We'll be working on them :)
[Android Apps and Games] flava69:
Yea got a few could you do a jelly bean colour weather icons and the utility icons to? Or even get ready for the next android software key lime pie colour, if I can think of more will let you know :)
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
OK, that input is good, but is it possible to point us at what you feel are "Jelly Bean" icons and colors? As far as I have seen, the ICS utility icon set we have is the same as what is offered in Jelly Bean, and the same for the ICS colors we offer.

For Key Lime Pie, I'm guessing that we'll have to do a tune up on the existing Gingerbread colors, since they are already green :)
[Android Apps and Games] flava69:
Oh yea that's true they are forgot bout that lol, all I can think of was notification part but already asked that and that's on the cards :)
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
OK then. We'll revisit the KLP colors once they are known, and otherwise keep on going with the requests we have on the to-do pile.
[Android Apps and Games] flava69:
Looking forward to the update :)
[Android Apps and Games] floepie:
Would it be possible to add a font to replicate that of the new android 4.2 digital clock and lock screen clock font, where the hour is in bold and the minutes not?

As for the weather icons, how about a set to replicate that of Google Now's weather icons for more an integrated look? Thanks and cheers to the holiday spirit.
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
floepie, the way Recast is currently setup, it uses the same font for both hours and minutes, so it would be a future version change to mimic how JB clocks look. In other words, we'll put it on the list of things to look at.

I'll have to look around to see if there is any icon sets that are close to what Google offers for the "Google Now" weather cards. I can't say that I've seen something like them before, so that may take a while to track down. Recast doesn't currently use bitmap graphics, so we can't borrow the existing icons from anywhere, either. I'd say I'll put this one on the investigation list and see how difficult it will be to find some... unless anyone knows where they exist :)
[Android Apps and Games] flava69:
Dunno if it helps mate I've got Google now weather icons, i can share it with you if you want it? :)
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
I will never turn down an offer of assistance :)

If you have a link somewhere I will try to pull them down and see how much work it will be to convert them to the vectors that Recast uses.
[Android Apps and Games] flava69:
Haha well you made an awesome app so it's only fair to give something back lol :)

Will upload for you

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Here's the link to google now icons

http://db.tt/dWLjqF4T
[Android Apps and Games] floepie:
Great! They're even PNG files. Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] flava69:
Welcome mate, been in drop box for a while lol :)
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
Thanks, I have them. It will probably take a little while for me to convert them to vectors, get them sized and colored appropriately, etc. I'll let folks know how the process is going here once I have some progress.
[Android Apps and Games] DieBretter:
I've only been using the app for a month or two, and what I would like to see would be NOAA support and local weather warnings.

Thanks much and keep up the good work!

Sent from my LT28at
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
DieBretter, thanks for the feedback.

We have looked at NOAA several times and each time we end up passing on it because....

More than 50% of our paid customers are international, and NOAA doesn't work there

NOAA's API is pretty darn poor to implement

The data required for NOAA would require big changes to the way Recast works

None of this says that we won't ever have NOAA as a supported weather provider, but they are all very good reasons not to use them right now. In the meantime we continue to look for other world-wide available weather providers sources that don't cost very much, since all of the big providers (Accuweather, Weather.com, Wunderground (now Weather.com), etc) are all very, very expensive and we don't have a large enough customer base to afford them.
[Android Apps and Games] flava69:
Cool look forward to it and hopefully you can use them, gonna upload all my weather icons to you!

You are most welcome to use them :)

http://db.tt/wus7nHtq
[Android Apps and Games] floepie:
Don't know if you've ever heard of them, but a few good apps I know use customweather.com. Just a suggestion of course, but I do know they're fairly accurate, at least in my neck of the woods.
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
flava69, thanks again! I'll go through them all and see what I can use.
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
floepie, thanks for that info. We will certainly check into them and see what the costs and restrictions may be.
[Android Apps and Games] DieBretter:
That's far more than I expected for international users. Thanks for the info on why it's not all that feasible of an idea.

Sent from my LT28at
[Android Apps and Games] NaabKing:
Just a quick reply to mstroud.

Have you seen "Beautiful Widgets" 5.0 version? (= I think you should check it out, cuz i think they are the biggest competitors for you guys :) It looks REALLY nice, wish we would have such a look ^^
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
NaabKing, I don't think we have BW on any of our devices. Is there something specifically that you see that Recast isn't doing? Is there some different layout, icons, etc? Even a screenshot would be nice, since most of the other weather & widget apps out there have all kinds of different looks, features, etc and we can't all see or offer them all :)
[Android Apps and Games] NaabKing:
Here's a screenshot if the forecast widget BW vs. Recast:

Which one looks better? :P

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And since im already typing, i wanna point out another bug i discovered, but dont know what causes it, i saw this happening about 3 times untill now, i dont know what i was doing, but when this happened for the last time i was on Google+ app browsing and then pressed "home" button, heres what happened:

As you can see, the clock is very small, i had the same thing hapoening with forecast widget too, but the clock returned to normal size in about 1 minute, maybe when minutes on clock widget cganged, i wasnt paying attencion, if it was like this.

Greetings
[Android Apps and Games] flava69:
I get wot your saying, bw is a good app but Recast is a up coming new app and will get better as each day comes, when we get updates I know it will be a lot better, just gotta give it time mate, Dev is doing a lot of work as we speak, give this time Cuz I am as I can see this being one of the top weather apps or best in time, I've used bw and it didn't work for me but this app is as you can do more on it like change font, colour of the writing etc, :)
[Android Apps and Games] 21productionz:
I can confirm that on my note1 the clock sometimes turns small for a bit then fixes itself.
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
NaabKing, I can probably move elements around to give a close, general layout for the text locations, sizing and icon elements. The colors of all elements appear to be white, and the font is Roboto, so you can choose those options yourself right now. The squared off, semi-transparent background is also something you can do right now, so that's covered, too.

If you are asking about the icons I can offer what I have mentioned a few times before: Recast uses vectors for its icon sets, not bitmaps. So as of now there isn't any easy way to add in any "found icons" or "other people's icons" for weather, utilities or backgrounds. We made this choice for a simple reason: we wanted Recast to look great on phones, tablets and TVs. It isn't possible to look good when scaling bitmaps up and down across all those resolutions, so it wasn't something we added to the app. As with all things, supporting this could change in the future, but bitmap graphics is a "pretty far in the future" addition because of these reasons.

As for the widget re-sizing, that happens because an app or the device itself forced a screen orientation change somewhere. Recast listens for that message and redraws the widgets so that they are ready to be viewed properly when the screen "arrives" in that new orientation. Because it takes time to draw them all, you may not see all widgets drawn in the same orientation simultaneously. This also means if the orientation on the device "arrives" and then "resets" before Recast has a chance to redraw everything, there will appear to be some widgets in odd sizes until Recast can catch up. This was the best compromise solution we could come up with for all the folks who hated our original design where all widgets were permanently locked into a single orientation and never re-sized or re-laid-out for the other orientation.

Let us know if that answered your questions.
[Android Apps and Games] NaabKing:
Well, for me BW icons looks much more realistic and they are bigger too, i like it too, that the first icon (weather now) is bigger then others, it's actually so big, that it doesnt fit in the widget, so thats something cool (i dont mind if its too "big").

BW widget has a line on the top, you probably dont see it, but it's there, a blue line and the first icon is "over" that line, that looks cool too, since it's not only same color :D

I'm just saying and i know BW is MUCH longer out then your app and that they earned MUCH more money then you did, so they can afford more people to work for them, but i will still support you guys :)
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
NaabKing, thanks for the reply. We each like different things and your input is welcomed. It may be that in this case one of the things you like, the "more realistic" weather icons, just isn't something we can offer at this time. I can also say that we aren't in any rush to make Recast look like other apps, so we probably won't clone the background look, either. Every app needs to be a bit different to suit different wants and needs, otherwise there would only be a market out there for one app! :)

There are some other widgets and layouts we are working on right now for the next release, but some time after that I can look into a different layout for the "Now + 4" forecast widget style. Everyone wants something different, I suppose, so we'll try to accommodate the requests where we can.
[Android Apps and Games] smdandb2:
I would have to agree.

Using MSN for weather is not my preferred choice. Right now MSN shows its 3 degrees here with fog. Well its almost 20 degrees and sunny.

I bought Recast because I loved how it looked and how it was customizable. But the weather being this innacurate seems to defeat the entire purpose of it.

Just something to think about. I'm anxious to see what the new year brings for Recast.
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
smdandb2, we know that some folks in some locations have weather data that isn't great, that's why we support multiple providers for you to switch between. Unfortunately today, with the loss of Google's weather data, we have added almost all of the free providers that there are and adding "better" providers is prohibitively expensive. We continue to look for better sources of weather data and will add them in as we can.
[Android Apps and Games] smdandb2:
I understand the cost issue completely.

You say I can switch providers? I must be blind, because I am unable to figure out how to switch providers. Or does it automatically choose one based on my location?

Thank you.
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
We like to believe that everyone knows and understands how our app works because we built it following the Android 4.0 User Interface design guidelines... but your question points out that it might not be as intuitive as we would hope for.

If you go to Recast > Settings > Locations > Location Name > Weather Source and then pick the provider you want.

Alternatively, we made this video to show the exact area of Recast where the location provider, and indeed all location specific settings, can be changed:

[YOUTUBE]bfjJvfi6R0M[/YOUTUBE]

Let us know if that helps out at all.
[Android Apps and Games] Jimi Mack:
Just for fun I followed your suggested steps and when I choose, World Weather Online. It does weather has a question mark though it.
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
You say the WWO data isn't working? Can you provide a screenshot for us? You could use the Recast built-in share feature to do so if you want to do so quickly:

Here's how to use the built-in sharing option in Recast:

[youtube]HjnPk1tEtck[/youtube]
[Android Apps and Games] Jimi Mack:
A screen shot has been emailed off to you of what I see when using the WWO. Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
Thanks for the feedback. An email was sent back to you asking for some version info on your Recast install. We thought that this "?" initial condition drawing was fixed before in an earlier (1.0.8) release of Recast when using WWO, but it seems that this issue may have come back. We will investigate it to find out why.
[Android Apps and Games] Jimi Mack:
Responded to the email, I am using 1.0.9.
[Android Apps and Games] Jimi Mack:
Please also note while using WWO on my Nexus 7 it will not refresh and remove that ? marks at all.
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
Jimi Mack, that is odd, since it should be the same function working the same way on both devices. Is it possible that the Android OS and/or Recast version is different on both devices? Do you have root access and logging enabled on either device?
[Android Apps and Games] Jimi Mack:
No not at this time. The Rezound is due to go back to Verizon any day now so it is running the std stock rom, the Nexus is running the latest 4.2. Both units are running the up to date version of Recast.I have noticed on both that while on WWO you can refresh but the time at the bottom of Recast where it tells you the last time it updated does not change. It may say it updated 10 minutes ago then go and refresh, the screen looks as if it is refreshing and the time below does not change. The other odd thing with WOO is the icon for the app and widget always show a sun, even though it has been night for hours. Now switch back to MSN and that icon will change to a moon to show it is the evening, go back to WWO and the icon becomes a sun again.

Do not get me wrong, I love the app just some off quirky things. In the past I had asked about why the date on the widgets was launching the browser to go to Google Calendar and not my calendar. On the Rezound it is running their own HTC calendar synced with the Google Calendar. Install the Google Calendar app and now the date on the widgets launches the Google Calendar. The app should be able to launch what ever calendar app you have assigned in the OS to be the calendar app though. Or even better, the choice to be able to assign any app to launch from the date, time etc..