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[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
Thanks for the report. Can you verify that you have beta 4 installed?

When we have seen this issue before the cause has generally been the device running out of memory or the cache directory is unavailable. We put in fixes for both of these conditions in beta 4, so we want to make sure that is where you are.

If you do have the latest Recast, it would be helpful to us if you could PM us a log of Recast while this is happening. That way we can see if there is something unique on your device that we haven't accounted for.

Thanks for letting us know about it. We'll wait to hear from you.
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
We've just posted a new video to help show off one of the unsung or unknown features in Recast: adding your own locations for weather. It also gives another peek into what is coming in Beta 5. Take a look and tell us what you think.

[YOUTUBE]fQrBbfAq6Bc[/YOUTUBE]
[Android Apps and Games] erichbitch:
THANK YOU !

I loved Recast but i deleted it cause i was missing the alarm click "shortcut" by clicking the widget.

Now i can finaly delete all other widgets for weather and time,

Recast is much more beautiful !

Cant wait for Beta 5 !!
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
erichbitch, thanks for the feedback. We're working diligently to get all the fixes and improvements we can into Beta 5. Hopefully we will soon have it ready for everyone to try and give input on.

If everything goes according to plan and no new issues come up, we are going to make Beta 5 the last beta release of the 1.0.0 Recast branch. That means we hope to put a stable, supportable version of Recast into the Google Play Store (and likely Amazon Appstore) within a short time period of this beta.
[Android Apps and Games] Wacco001:
Can't wait :)
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
Just a quick update on Beta 5. We were really hoping to get a build out by the end of this week but we ran into a few issues that we really needed to fix. I'm sure this is a bit of a bummer for those of you patiently awaiting a new build....

However, since we are taking a little more time on this last beta release we feel that we can put some infrastructure in place to make getting new widgets, themes and more easier in the release version. Hopefully soon you'll be able to see this hard work for yourselves.

So hang in there, we are not too far off from the next beta... really!
[Android Apps and Games] sumeetchawla:
Awesome stuff!

This is one of the best weather widgets I have ever seen! The kind of flexibility it offers is tremendous! I have been looking for a Beautiful Weather widget substitute for such a long time and I think I just found one! : D Keep up the good work!:)
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
sumeetchawla, thanks for the comments. We are trying flexibility while keeping Recast easy to use so that everyone can have a personalized widget and weather experience.

Keep checking back with us for our soon-to-be released Beta 5. It should add some more requested features and customization that folks have been asking about.
[Android Apps and Games] jhooly:
not sure if this has been requested but a 5x1 time&date widget would be much appreciated. apologies if we've already been there.
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
jhooly, we currently don't have 5x1 layouts in Recast. Did you mean 5x2, which is included today?
[Android Apps and Games] jhooly:
sorry if i'm off in the tall grass here but no, i did mean 5x1. thought it would configure nicely, just being text and all.

i'm currently using the 5x2 Weather and Utility Widget, figured the 5x1 time&date would go nicely with.
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
jhooly, ok, thanks for the clarification. I'm fairly sure we won't have time to add another layout to Recast at this late date, as we're not far off from our planned release date. I can look at what it would take to add this as a 5x2 layout, since we do already have that layout size in the app.

In the meantime I can add the 5x1 request as a future feature beyond our initial release timeline. Have you had a look at what we already offer in the 4x1 and 4x2 categories for similar layouts? Do any of those meet with your approval?
[Android Apps and Games] jhooly:
hi, yes, have checked out the 4x. layouts. the 4x1 Clock Date is pretty good. if wishes were horses i'd like to see a 5x1 variation on the 4x1 Clock Date idea, maybe something that dropped the location and went with biggest clock text possible. just talking nit-picky aesthetics here.
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
OK, thanks for that input. I'll see what I can do.
[Android Apps and Games] jhooly:
thanks for considering it! love the app by the way. tried many other weather and clock/date apps, currently using Recast for both. nice work.
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
jhooly, thanks for the encouragement and feedback. We're trying to be responsive, flexible and simple to use with Recast so that people will be able to customize it to their liking. We found ourselves wanting more customization than the other weather and widget apps provided, so it's heartening to hear that others feel the same way.

Keep an eye out for Beta 5... I'll try to get some widget layouts in there for you.
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
It seems that in the last 24 to 48 hours some new folks found out about Recast. Here are two reviews we just found out about and wanted to share:

AppStorm

AndroidStatic

We're still not out of beta yet, and this next release has a lot of goodness in it, so we hope the positive feedback makes it to the Google Play Store version, too.
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
An item of note for you long term testers out there... or anyone who's comfortable with Recast the way you have it setup:

Recast Beta 5 will require a complete uninstall of any previous version of Recast before the new features will be visible or functional.

Yes, this bites, but it was necessary to make it possible for us to move forward with widgets and locations safely. We are making the change now so that things will be easier to add in the future with no further pain (or at least less of it) from you.

I didn't want to sit on this news for very long so those of you with some customized widgets would have time to prepare for it. This is a big change but it will bring us close to release level and allow us to dynamically add things in the future with minimal impact.

Let us know if you have questions or comments about this change. We'll do our best to answer them.
[Android Apps and Games] jhooly:
oh oh! thought of another option that might be nice: toggle on/off the Location text.

personally i don't change my location much, nor show the weather for anywhere other than where i am, so Location stays pretty much constant. when i have a couple widgets side by side -- or even near each other -- it often happens that the Location thing gets duplicated which looks ... somewhat less than overwhelming cool. given the choice i'd probably just toggle off the Location text and have a cleaner display for it.

just a thought. ;)
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
jhooly, we'll have to look at a toggle for items beyond utilities, as that could be a big change for sure. Let me pass your feedback along to the dev team and see what they say. Thanks for the details.
[Android Apps and Games] Sardo Numspa:
Really loving this widget so far. Excited to see what else will be added.
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
Sardo Numspa, we're glad you like it and thanks for sharing. We'll look forward to your feedback once beta 5 is released.
[Android Apps and Games] zabae:
Great widget, thank you!
[Android Apps and Games] pablofersanji:
I can hepl testing this app.

I have a Samsung Gio with Android 2.3.3
[Android Apps and Games] Wond3r:
Where does this app get its weather info from?
[Android Apps and Games] Wacco001:
Just have a quick look here (see "Weather Service Licenses") to give you some idea .. :)
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
Wond3r, as Wacco001 mentioned, Recast uses multiple services for weather: Google and World Weather Online. Each location can use its own individual provider that you set. The default is Google. You can find the provider settings by starting Recast, tapping Settings, choosing Locations, then tapping on the name of the location you want to change. Near the bottom of the list is the Weather Provider option where you can tap to choose whichever provider you want.
[Android Apps and Games] XlAfbk:
any chance for 1*x widgets (e.g. 1x4)? only weather app that I know off that has such a widget is palmary (3rd screenshot) and that's the main reason i'm stuck with that
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
XlAfbk, we can certainly look at it. 1x4 isn't a common layout so I can see why we and other providers don't offer it by default. Is there a reason why the standard, horizontally oriented widget layouts don't work for you?
[Android Apps and Games] Lord Takyon:
That would actually fit my homescreen layout nicely. 1*5 would fit even better lol

Sent from my XperiaS via subspace beacon.
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
Lord Takyon, thanks for the feedback. That's two votes for a 1xY layout style so I will certainly take the request back to the team to see what we can do. It's probably too late to have vertical widget layouts make it into beta 5 but we'll see what can be done for the final release.
[Android Apps and Games] rgeerolf:
This one just proves again how well you guys handle feedback. A great example for many devs :)

Can't wait till beta 5 but maybe you can add this one to your request list: transparent backgrounds for the Widgets and for the app itself. Like you can adjust the transparency with %-values. Another request that might be useful is that you can remove the shadow from the clock. On a dark background you don't need it and combined with my first request it would also be unneeded with a light background. And maybe you can also add a stroke option so you can chose if you like shadow, stroke or nothing. And the last thing I want to say is that I want to bump my very first request. Yes, you replied and said that you will consider it but the following is very useful and needed for non US users: now I'm in wingene. The widget detects and displays my location but he also adds the region (Vlaams Gewest). So the result is that the location on the widget is very small because he needs to make it smaller to add the region. In some cities he adds the country (Belgium) so that's a little bit better because it's shorter. It would be perfect if that irrelevant information is subtracted from the location string. Ow and one other thing :p the widget sometimes shows current location. So I assume that's because location detecting failed because of bad connection. But I blame myself for that. But the widget should remember the last detected location and show that one when new detection failed ...

So plz consider these request for a future or final release. And keep the good work coming I really looks your work :D and yes I posted this huge reply with my phone :p:cool:

Edit: here a screenshot to show the issue (request about location with irrelevant information added)

Verstuurd van mijn Galaxy Nexus met Tapatalk
[Android Apps and Games] XlAfbk:
reason i want vertical: on a 4x6 homescreen i have a 2x6 calendar (horizontal doesn't make sense for an agenda view). in that remaining space i can either fit a 2x1/2 which usually shows current + 2 days or a vertical one which does show current + 4 days (even more would be possible, the widget i have is only 1x4)
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
rgeerolf, wow, that's a lot of requests! I'll have to look and see what can be done before release as we're really trying to minimize changes in this final stretch.

All of your requests (transparency percent, shadow on/off, stroke, etc) are reasonable and doable, we just don't have a way to expose those controls to you just yet. I will push the requests onto the top of the stack and see where they fall. My gut tells me that they will have to be post 1.0.0 launch, though, as we want to make one stable release before opening up all the customization options... and we want to get those options right when we do have them.

As for your other request, the current location name handling, well....
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
XlAfbk, thanks for the explanation. That helps when we discuss options and look at what features to add in the next versions of the app. I'll make sure we consider this case when looking at new templates and layouts for the next Recast release.
[Android Apps and Games] LudoGris:
Loving this so far!

Some things I would like to see...

Widget background that changes with day/night. Lighter blue for day and darker blue for night.

Refresh on the widget
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
Thanks for the feedback!

We'll be looking at the posts here and a few other sites to gather up the most requested features and see how to incorporate them into the release version. We do have a few more special features we would like to add but we want to make sure all the major stuff you guys expect is already in there and working.
[Android Apps and Games] 21productionz:
Awesome app. I am very selective about what kind of widget goes on my home screen. I love love love the utility switch integrated in the time/date widget. However I'm very ocd with asthetics. Is it possible to put the date between the switches for semetry?

Is it possible to open apps by touching a part of the widget?

UNOFFICIALy NOTEd
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
21productionz,

Can you tell me what you mean by this statement: "Is it possible to open apps by touching a part of the widget?"

Are you asking to start any arbitrary app or Recast? If you mean Recast, this is already supported by adding "Widget Settings" or "Weather Details" in the Edit Widget settings.

Let us know if this is what you are asking for or if we need to look at some new features instead.
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
Also, when you are talking about needing symmetry for one of our widgets, are you talking about the 4x2 Clock & Date widget? I put together a quick re-layout of it here so you can tell me if that is what you were mentioning.
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
As we look at revising Recast to incorporate the feedback posted here I have a question to ask: Is it good enough to re-purpose the space already reserved in most widgets for utilities (like battery level) for the weather refresh icon?

The reason we ask is that without reusing that space, many of the smaller 4x1, 2x2 or 1x1 layouts will be very cramped or they will have to change substantially to allow space for dedicated refresh items. If you have thoughts on this change you should let us know, as for now we are planning on the reuse of existing utility space for refresh functions.
[Android Apps and Games] 21productionz:
That is sick right there. Made my jinglers tingle.

Donation on its way

UNOFFICIALy NOTEd
[Android Apps and Games] 21productionz:
Like touching the clock would open the alarm clock, touching date would open calendar and so on. Or making it user defined with an option in settings.

UNOFFICIALy NOTEd
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
Glad we understood what you were asking for.

Thanks for the donation. We'll be sure to apply it against the many costs of developing Recast. This isn't related, but you can look forward to seeing that widget change in the next beta update we post.

Work on adding app/context specific touch regions will be a bit further out, but I have it on our tracking list now.

Thanks again.
[Android Apps and Games] 21productionz:
No thank you! Much appreciated.

UNOFFICIALy NOTEd
[Android Apps and Games] LudoGris:
I only have the 4X1 widget with the weather. I don't have the battery, so for me adding the refresh where the battery is works perfect.
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
Thanks for the feedback. We will offer Refresh as an option along with the other utility items like WiFi, Battery, Bluetooth, etc. If you don't want to see any utility item on your widget you can select the None utility option and keep your widgets clean looks.

This change should show up in a new beta version soon. We'll look forward to everyone's feedback once it is available.
[Android Apps and Games] euqiddis:
Something else I noticed..

When the app is opened via the widget the text is a bit large so have to scroll down to see al the days. is it possible to reduce the font size/icons so no need to scroll down.
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
We thought about the need to show all the forecast and current weather data at once and put in a way to do just that... turn your phone on its side and you'll see the same view as the Tablet and Google TV customers get. Here's and image I just took showing that view on my Galaxy Nexus.

And just in case it wasn't obvious, the entire app works in Landscape mode this way. Try it out and you'll see more information in many of the Settings views when your phone is on its side.
[Android Apps and Games] snOwjAwk:
just wondering... is there C° available?

cheers and good job!

sJ
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
snOwjAwk,

We do have support for Celsius. Several posts up in this thread I posted the steps but we also have the information listed on our web site: Recast FAQ.

Let us know if you have other feedback or suggestions!
[Android Apps and Games] blackbearblanc:
Press location.

Great work. Custom fonts would be awesome
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
More fonts and typefaces could be possible, but it will take some effort to add more because of the way we use them.

Is there a specific font or look you are wanting that we don't yet have? It helps to be specific at this stage while we are learning what folks must have versus like to have.

Thanks for the feedback, we appreciate it.
[Android Apps and Games] gnwest:
The time on the widget is one hour behind my system time. I'm on an Incredible 2, stock ROM, running 2.3.4. Great app.
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
gnwest, can you check something for us inside Recast?

In your device Apps folder, find and tap the Recast icon (or tap on any Recast widget)

Tap the gear icon (Settings item) on the Action bar

Tap the Locations menu item

Tap the name of your location from the list

Scroll down the list until you see the entry called Time Zone

Tell us the value you see (something like GMT+01:00)

Tell us what country and time zone your phone is set to

Tell us if your location with the problem is one you added or if it is "Current Location"

Let us know if you have Daylight Savings Time on or off for your location

That will help us determine what the issue could be and try to fix it. Thanks for letting us know about the issue.
[Android Apps and Games] Lord Takyon:
All I can say is that the devs are brilliant. I'm in no rush to get the features, I would rather wait for a bugfree release :-)

Sent from my XperiaS via subspace beacon.
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
Lord Takyon, thanks for the complements. I will pass them along to the team. We're smashing as many bugs as we can to get beta 5 out the door and leave us some time to wrap up the final RC version. You'll get a chance to try it out and tell us how well we did shortly :)
[Android Apps and Games] Marsou77:
Hi!

I think I've found a bug.

When I select the shortcut to open clock, it doesn't work and open calandar...

Sent 2X faster with my LG
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
Marsou77, thanks for that. We've completely changed how alarms and calendar links work with Recast for Beta 5. Hang in there a bit longer and we'll have something new for you to try.
[Android Apps and Games] rgeerolf:
Yes I know it where a lot of requests :p and thanks for considering them/put them on the list. And I understand that now for the final release you choose stability over more features. And about the location name handling ... well .. that's just awesome! Now we really need beta 5. You guys deliver some great work :) Don't forget to contact me about Dutch translation when you implement other languages. And you guys also shouldn't forget submitting your app on Android police for the best new apps section when you hit the play store :) otherwise I will! ;)

Verstuurd van mijn Galaxy Nexus met Tapatalk
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
rgeerolf, thanks for your understanding. By the way, your wait is over :) Beta 5 is posted.
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
OK everyone, I know it's been a longer time between releases than we had hoped, but it is now available:

Recast Beta 5 is posted! See the first post in this thread for all the details.

One note of caution: you must uninstall any previous beta of Recast before installing beta 5. This was necessary in order to make many of the new features available and to enable widget and color set downloads. We hope that this will be the last of the wholesale re-installs before release.

Give it a spin, tell us what you like, what can be improved, and what is kind of busted as we march toward our final release an ultimate posting in the various app stores.
[Android Apps and Games] :
Sure. I've got a Note running CM9 RC0. Testing in three, two, one...
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
bmstrong, do let us know if your Galaxy Note looks and works OK. We don't have the device here but we did everything we could to fix the layout issues we could find. You Note folks will be the final deciders on the fix being good or not.
[Android Apps and Games] buckhunter:
That is the longest fix list I have ever seen lol.

Keep up the great work guys and many thanks for the quick responces and updates
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
buckhunter, we're glad to help. Let us know if you find any issues or things that seem to work strangely. And be sure to tell us how the widget and color download process works for you.
[Android Apps and Games] Freka:
Hi I am trying to download the beta 5 on my phone but download is unsuccessful... Any mirrors or others having this issue?
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
ClaudiuJer, we just tried the download here and it worked fine. Can you tell us what you are seeing? Are you attempting to download Recast from Chrome or the Android browser? Due to some restrictions, Recast cannot download an update to itself from within the application. Is it possible that method is what is not working for you?
[Android Apps and Games] Marsou77:
Again me!

My Recast widget freezed I think

I will test the last one :)

Sent 2X faster with my LG
[Android Apps and Games] Kameirus:
after reboot says recast has stopped working

only way to fix it was to uninstall it
[Android Apps and Games] erichbitch:
I just tried Recast Beta5, its AWESOME !

Only a few things left for me to be perfect:

-5x1 Widget for the Galaxy Note and others (Take a look at Screenshot, Location is very small)

-Customizable Color Sets

Thanks for this great app !

Location is very small in this Layout and on the Galaxy Note you have to resize the 4x1 Widget so you get "empty side space"

Thank you for your development !
[Android Apps and Games] rgeerolf:
Just chose 'show city only' in the settings, not the region/country then Aachen will be much more readable.
[Android Apps and Games] Quiksilver78:
I agree with the font issue; if you can call it an issue (more like aesthetics?)

I'm using an HTC One X and everything inside the app is just way too oversized. The fonts are too big and to get a full forecast when opening the app, you have do some scrolling to see it all. It should all fit on one screen. No scrolling, and this should be handled by the app's way to decoding the screen size of the device (xHDPI, etc)
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
Marsou77, can you verify that you do have Beta 5 installed? The fix we previously tested to correct the clock not updating on some devices was included in Beta 5, and we did test that fix extensively before release.

If you do have beta 5 we need to get some logs from you. PM me a logcat capture of your device while the clock isn't updating, if you can, so we can verify the behavior.

Thanks for the report.