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[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
jesus_c, here are the steps for changing any of the options for Recast.

Tap on any Recast weather widget or start Recast by tapping on its icon in your device App folder

From the full screen forecast view, tap on the gear icon, which is for Settings

Tap on the Locations menu item

Tap on the location name you want to edit

Scroll down the options list until you see "Weather source" and tap that item

Tap on the radio button option that says "World Weather Online"

Tap on the check mark icon, which is for OK

Tap on the Recast logo icon, or press your device Back button

Wait a few seconds or tap on the circle arrow icon, or Refresh button

See if new weather data appears for your location

There are a whole host of settings that can be change within these views, things like Celsius, or Metric data, or the naming of your location. The same is also true of Views page, where you can change just about everything with widgets or the full screen forecast. Let us know if that helps get you going.

For everyone else: does it seem difficult or non-obvious to change settings or modify widgets in Recast?
[Android Apps and Games] jesus_c:
With world weather online source all is ok

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
jesus_c, thanks for reporting this and letting us know. I'll make sure we keep an eye on this issue in future releases.
[Android Apps and Games] Kameirus:
ok ..give me a few minutes and i will let ya know

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calendar works from what i can tell

and alarm works also
[Android Apps and Games] Lord Takyon:
4*1 time and weather widget. Tap date launches calendar fine, but tap time and it just launches weather instead of alarms.

I'm running Sony XperiaS on stock firmware.

I have had this issue with a few other widgets, so maybe it is something to do with file names?

Sent from my XperiaS via subspace beacon.
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
Lord Takyon, thanks for the info. We see this behavior when an OEM doesn't use the standard Google apps or they rename them to something custom. We'll have to do some digging around to see if we can find out how to solve the issue.

Kameirus, thanks for the update. We're glad it works for you, though its puzzling that another HTC customer can't get the clock/alarm and calendar to work.
[Android Apps and Games] Kameirus:
what problem is he haveing
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
Seems that the calendar function doesn't work when tapping on the date on any Recast widget. He has an HTC Droid Incredible 2, if that matters.

The behavior that should work is shown in this video we made: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePgy7XANfT8
[Android Apps and Games] Kameirus:
ok well thats excatly how mine does it just like in the vid ..

both calendar and alarm

hmmms not familer with the inc2
[Android Apps and Games] rockingondrums:
That's where I've been trying it from. Now that I'm home, I'll just download it on my computer. Have no more home internet, will have to tether, dl, untether, transfer heh...
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
We've just finished uploading some new, quick videos around Recast Beta 5. If you are interested in how to access some of the new features but were afraid ask... well there might be a video for you.

Visit http://www.youtube.com/user/P2Industries for all the details.
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
rockingondrums, thanks for letting us know. We're still not sure why you had trouble downloading the app. We do keep testing the links every day to make sure they work and so far, so good. Hopefully you'll be able to get the app and install it soon.
[Android Apps and Games] rockingondrums:
Hmm, all my menu items have duplicates... (don't know if it was already reported)
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
rockingondrums, did you completely uninstall any previous version of Recast before installing Beta 5? We can't support an install-over-install because of all the changes we made in Beta 5... We've only seen something happen like that when installing B5 on top of B4.
[Android Apps and Games] Jettubby:
Amen! :cool:

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I travel a lot. Part of the job. Today I went from Charlotte and landed in Phoenix. The phone was in airplane mode. Came out of airplane mode on the ground in PHX and recast was showing that I was in and the weather for Chicago? I checked google maps and even updated the location of the phone with the GPS on and the phone knew it was in PHX but the recast widget still said and showed the wx for Chicago. It was about an hour and a half before recast updated itself to PHX. I even went into recast and hit refresh. It updated the Chicago wx but didn't figure out it was in PHX for a while.

Just thought I'd pass this info a long. I'm always out flying and can test this stuff.

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[Android Apps and Games] sdotmouse:
Just restored one of my devices after a rom install and noticed the 3 by 2 weather/clock widget seems have gone on holiday without telling me (unless I'm missing the obvious) and am wondering if this will be back in the future. I would also be happy if there was a 4 by 1 weather/clock layout with clock and weather position swapped. I know widget templates/themes and such are for the future but I'm just getting my suggestions in early. I can wait :-)

I've had zero issues with latest beta. Not a one. I'm pretty much sold on this app. You've got a customer in me I think.

Sent from my MT15i
[Android Apps and Games] rockingondrums:
I did uninstall the previous version. I inadvertently restarted my phone as well (by dropping it and having the cover and battery fall out).

I really liked the color setup on the previous version. It seemed like I could change more colors, like on the hi/lo of the forecast. I know I can still do it now, but it seemed like there were more parts of the text where I could adjust colors... (although I do like the refresh button being on the face of the widget...)

I'll wipe the data, uninstall, reboot, reinstall...
[Android Apps and Games] LifeInAnalog:
After the first four betas, the fifth one seemed a little out of place on the installation process. It took me a bit to figure out the widgets. But that was a problem with me more than your app:-)

All in all, I'm very happy with the way things are going. Good job to everyone involved, and I look forward to plopping a couple of bucks down...

@1LifeInAnalog on Twitter
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
Jettubby, thanks for that info. The next time you find Recast is "stuck" showing an old location, could you capture and PM or email us a log of that behavior? Catlog is our current favorite, but anything that captures the full system log will do.

This should help us figure out what Recast is looking at for your location provider and how often it is checking for a new location. As a point of reference, I returned from a trip a few days ago and saw Recast updating its location within a few minutes of landing, so long as I had usable cellular service.
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
LifeInAnalog, thanks for the feedback. Did you mean you were not happy with the move to more widgets in the online catalog? Was the process of downloading widgets not easy to understand?

We purposely moved most of the widgets and color sets into the catalog in order to get this level of feedback. If everyone tells us that this is confusing we'll have to revisit that decision in the final release.
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
sdotmouse, thanks for the input. Did you know that all of the widget layouts and color sets of the previous betas are still there in Beta 5... they've just moved to the catalog. This includes the 3x2 layout you are asking about.

Take a look at this short video we made to see if it helps make sense of the downloading widgets process:

[YOUTUBE]Vbcc0FmZmX0[/YOUTUBE]
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
rockingondrums, we didn't change the color options much from the previous versions, except as noted in the messages above, to move most of the color options into the catalog. In fact, we added some new color (and changed the name from themes to color sets) for you to try.

Is it possible that you aren't seeing them because you haven't visited the catalog to download them?
[Android Apps and Games] sdotmouse:
I had some kind of brain fart earlier. Found it about ten minutes after posting. Thanks for the reply. My world is now complete and I can die happy and fulfilled ;-)

Sent from my MT15i
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
sdotmouse, thanks for the update. I'm still curious if you found the download process tough to find or non-obvious. That's valid and useful feedback for us, since most customers won't be "XDA level" folks and may not figure these things out on their own.
[Android Apps and Games] sdotmouse:
There is nothing difficult or complicated about (in my opinion). I don't think there is much more you could to highlight the "download templates here" process. It's blatantly obvious. Where it falls apart is people are stupid (as evidenced by my brain freeze) and you can't do much about that. The layout and visual cues are direct and to the point. If I do have any ideas for tweaking anything I will definitely let you know.

Sent from my MT15i
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
sdotmouse, thanks again for your feedback. We'll have to wait and see if other people "get it" or if there is more we have to do, like a first-run help screen, to get people on the right track. At this point I think we'll be putting more color sets and more widget layouts into the final release, as that was always the plan. It may be that we'll have to consider how to keep the download messages front-and-center once there is more included in the app and people may have less desire to go looking for "more".
[Android Apps and Games] sdotmouse:
Perhaps where the settings icon and confirmation check mark are you could place a "market icon" to indicate the availability of additional skins/themes etc that would open the template selection and download area.

Sent from my MT15i
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
sdotmouse, that's a thought, thanks. We're always concerned with overloading the action bar area, but I'll give the feedback to the team and we'll see what comes up.
[Android Apps and Games] sdotmouse:
Could put a drop down menu there for settings and themes - so you'd have the refresh button and the "three dots" or whatever -still two icons on the action bar.

Sent from my MT15i
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
Depending on your device, the "action bar overflow" icon (those three dots) should already be visible. That's where the Help and About options permanently live.

For older, 2.x devices, all of these options are accessible by the device Menu button.
[Android Apps and Games] sdotmouse:
Yeah, I get that. I was thinking more of a dedicated "menu type of thing" that will show for all, but something that signifies more than just "settings" if you get what I mean.

Sent from my MT15i
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
I think I have the gist of what you are saying. We'll have to investigate it and see what can be done to make downloading more discoverable by everyone.

In the meantime, we've posted up a whole series of short videos on YouTube that, we hope, makes most of the features and settings within Recast a bit more easy to understand...

Check out the Recast videos on our YouTube channel.
[Android Apps and Games] SebaKL:
Hi there

This is a very nice widget. I have been using it for quite a while and I'm very pleased so far. Great work, thanks for putting the effort and share your work with the android community. I'm sure many beside me, share the sentiment. Much appreciated.

I like to ask something.

I was using beautiful widget for my weather. Once you download a weather skin,

it will place a folder, with all the PNG files used to represent different weather conditions. What was good about it, is that one could make his/her own design, as long as followed the PNG naming conventions. Do you think it's possible to do it ?

I'm fairly happy with my current White and simple weather design, but it would be great if I could add a little custo touch to sync with rest of my custom design.

Best regards

Sebastian
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
SebaKL, thanks for the complements and feedback. We appreciate it.

At the moment Recast doesn't have a method to allow customer editing of the icons, backgrounds and images it uses. It has always been part of the plan to allow as much customization as you can think of, but we have to make trade-offs to get a product completed. This is something that we hope to improve upon once we are able to ship the release version.

In the meantime, if you have specific requests of a layout or color set you'd like to see let us know and maybe we can put it into the catalog for you!
[Android Apps and Games] Sardo Numspa:
How about a the ability to adjust the transparency of the background?hat would be a nice feature.

Thanks again for the betas.
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
Sardo Numspa, the background transparency is the same story as the rest of the graphics assets: we have plans to expose it as a customization option but we need to get a version 1.0 product done and shipping first.

We know that there is a set of folks who really want to get into the tweaks and personal touches of making just the right widget and views. We also know that we want to do it right so that we can support it over many versions of the product and with different styles. Hang in there and I promise we'll make this happen for you.

In the meantime, ask us for some new options or tell us what's missing. We may not be able to give you everything you want but the flexibility is in Recast to provide most of it today... so long as we cook it into the app.
[Android Apps and Games] Sardo Numspa:
thanks. i was just throwing that out there for future consideration.
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
Don't worry, background transparency and many other modification are on our to-do list for the next few versions.
[Android Apps and Games] Jettubby:
Will do. I'll be flying to Vegas tonite and back tomorrow to the east coast. Will see how it does. I use SystemTuner. Not familiar if it will do a system log but if so let me know.

I just thought it very strange not that it didn't update right away to Phoenix the other day but that it was pulling Chicago wx?? I haven't even been to Chicago with Recast installed and if you look on map PHX is a long way from ORD! ;-)
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
Jettubby, thanks for the assist here. We're pretty surprised to hear that the location would be so far off ourselves. We've only experience that when the Google WiFi location data was very, very wrong, and for some reason it was deemed more "reliable" than the GPS data on our devices. Having a log capture app (Catlog is our current fav) installed are ready-to-go is the best way to grab that info at a moments notice. That will help us find and fix this issue.
[Android Apps and Games] aussiebum:
Hi mstroud,

Just a thought re: weather themes. Would be (really) nice to also have the background of the widget / main app change depending on time of day / weather, like how the Accuweather widget / app looks on the Galaxy S2 / Note / S3.

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
aussiebum, thanks for the input. We have already had this request and it is on our investigation list for a post 1.0 launch feature. It is a bit more work to get done right than one would think, and we certainly want to spend the time and do it right.
[Android Apps and Games] NaabKing:
I'm just about to install the application, so i didn't try it yet, but i readed the text and it's not listed, so i'm wondering if it's possible to include the weather to lockscreen? Like for example Samsung Galaxy S3 and HTC One X has? Is it possible? Cuz it would be nice to have the weather on my SGS3 lockscreen instead of the Accuweather one :)
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
NaabKing, Recast does not include lockscreen weather functions. This is something we can look at for future versions of the app, however, after the 1.0 version ships. Thanks for letting us know your interest in that feature.
[Android Apps and Games] NaabKing:
I have to say i love the app :) BEST weather app out there and i tryed several of them, but this one is just simple and effective. I only miss one thing, the 4x2 widget which has clock and weather, like other weather apps have, so now i'm using 2x 4x1 widgets, first one for clock and second one for forecast, but i don't mind :P

I just dont like 1 thing, there is a MUST that you have "current location", can't be deleted, so i have "current location" set to Maribor (cuz i like here) and then i added city Maribor to allways show it, so i have 2x Maribor for no reason :D Is there any way i can delete the current location? (=

PS: If i can translate the app to "Slovenian" please let me know, i wanna do it :)

EDIT: I agree with posts above about the transparent widgets background or an picture like accuweather has on SGS3 :)
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
NaabKing, thanks for the feedback. I can look at the 4x2 weather + time request today and see what I can do about your request. Do you want it to look similar to one of the 4x1 layouts we have?

Actually, you DON'T have to have a "current location" as long as you have at least ONE manual location. Here's how to turn off that option:

Tap on the Recast icon, or on any Recast weather widget

Tap on the Settings (gear) icon,

Tap on the Locations menu item

Tap on the top-most list item which should be "Current Location"

Tap on the setting option "Display Location"

Switch the setting to "Hidden"

Tap on the Save (check mark) icon

You are done!

After that the Current Location shouldn't update, poll for location, or appear in any of the widget location lists. Let us know if that works for you.

Once we have 1.0 ready to go we'll be back here a XDA looking for translators. We'll certainly ask for your help at that time, so thank you for the offer.

Can someone post a picture of the Galaxy S3 Weather widget they would like us to emulate? I can't say that I've positively identified what it looks like from the reviews online.
[Android Apps and Games] rockingondrums:
I did download stuff from the catalog. To be fair, I do have kind of a bad memory in certain situations, but I still enjoy the widget I'm using :)

Also, I cleared data before reinstalling and my multiple menu option problem is gone. Go figure, the one time I don't clear the data from an app, something goes wrong :rolleyes:;)
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
rockingondrums, thanks for your update. At least we know that you are working again. Let us know if you run into any other issues or if you have suggestions for colors, widgets or other improvements before reach the release version.
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
NaabKing (and anyone looking for a new widget to try)...

Try visiting the Recast Catalog, Widgets, 4x2 page and see if the new clock and weather widget meets with your expectations. It's nice to be able to add widgets on-the-fly like this now without a new download of Recast :)

OK, it should now be posted and ready to try. Check it out and let us know.
[Android Apps and Games] NaabKing:
@mstroud

Here's the look of accuweather on SGS3 and below the new 4x2 Widget you did :P Thanks :)
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
NaabKing, thanks for the picture and the download. The question is now... do you like the Samsung/Accuweather widget better than the new Recast one? Sure, we don't have auto changing background/time-of-day colors but do they have on-the-fly downloadable layouts? ;)
[Android Apps and Games] 21productionz:
New 4x2 doesn't have tap time for clock! Was this intentional?
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
21productionz, no it should have had one. It worked when I tried it here on one device, but it is possible that the one posted didn't have it, depending on when it was downloaded. I'll pull it and investigate it again. Thanks for finding that.
[Android Apps and Games] 21productionz:
Yessir! Anything to help.
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
Can you delete that widget template (have I told you that you can delete templates?) and re-download it to try it now?

Oh! And I just remembered that you have a Galaxy Note... does the 5x2 widget not work for you, either?
[Android Apps and Games] NaabKing:
I'll be honest :P I'm not using Accuweather widget just of one reason, there's not tap on the time to go to clock or on date to go to calendar and the accuweather one is animated :P And accuweathe only has one widget, the one screenshoted and that's it :P

But i miss date on the new 4x2 clock that would take me to calendar, you think there's a chance you can put that somewhere? :D Maybe something similar to 4x1 widget with clock and date.

Do you think you could follow the Android 4.0 flow? With that i mean the "swipe left/right" to move between tabs in options, meaning tabs: "Views | Locations | Templates | General", you have to click those now, but it would be cool, if you could move between them with "swipe left/right" like on applications on Android 4.0 :P Hope you know what i mean. This could be done to move between Widget sizes tabs too.

I think there would be a good option like this "Refresh on unlock" (minimum every 20 minutes), meaning weather would refresh when you unlock the phone, but not more then every 20 minutes.

PS: What does "vibrate" (phone vibrates) mean when you click the "refresh" icon on the widget? (= That it's successfully refreshed?
[Android Apps and Games] 21productionz:
All are working great. And the 5x2 is my new fave. Excellent work sir.
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
NaabKing, lots of questions and comments in your post, so let me see what I can answer.

I created a new 5x2 clock+weather layout, not a 4x2, is that what you are asking about? If so, then yes, I can look at adding date in, although probably not the same way as 4x2 is currently setup.

Actually, we are using standard Android 4.0 design patterns in Recast. The tap to go to the page/view is actually the standard navigation method provided. It is also the only method that is backward compatible for 3.x and 2.x Android devices. Swipe for navigation is a secondary, and more complicated (less obvious) pattern that was introduced as an OS 4.x only method. Due to this we do not plan on changing the way navigation works in 1.0... we may revisit this in a later version.

Recast should already be providing an option to "Refresh on unlock" for the weather depending on when the last good weather was received and how close to the next weather polling time it is. Putting in an additional check with some kind of timeout isn't in the cards for the 1.0 release.

Vibrate and sound are both used in Recast to provide instant and positive feedback to customers when touching any utility item. This lets you know, no matter what the UI shows you, that your input was accepted and that something is happening based on that input. It does not correspond with the success or failure of the intended input (aka weather received).

Hopefully that answers your questions, or if not let us know and we can provide some more feedback.
[Android Apps and Games] NaabKing:
Thanks for the answers :) But i just noiced the 5x2 widget actually works on my SGS3 just fine too lol That's nice :P

About the "swipe left/right", if you check the stock launcher from Google (not Samsung or HTC one) you can see most of their app-s has this and many other apps (not from Google), but it's not a big problem :P
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
We'll see what we can do for the swipe navigation, but no promises. We still have a lot of stuff to fix before we hit the final release.

Glad to hear that 5x2 worked for you, but I didn't know that the Galaxy S3 supported 5 columns wide home screens. That is a factory default option?
[Android Apps and Games] NaabKing:
No it's not, but it still works and it looks good, maybe it's resized to 4x2, here's how it looks:
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
Thanks for that info, it does look good at that size.