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[Android Apps and Games] dapaua:
Thank you for your tests! Feel free to tinker all you want with the apk :)

I think that the part you added needs to be in the widget provider xml file. I quote from documentation:

This has to be added to another xml file. I thought I did, but looking more closely, I think I added it to the wrong file (I added it to widget_info.xml when it was, in fact, widget_info_5x6.xml, which is the one I'm really using) .

I'll attach the corrected version here, can you check if it works?
[Android Apps and Games] shantzg001:
^^ Awesome.. I really appreciate your quick responses. The new apk works, just tried :)

Waiting for it to make it to the play store..Keep up the excellent work :)

Editt: Need to report 1 bug though.

Persistent notifications are a bit iffy. e.g. I have tasker and battery status as persistent notifications. Now, battery status doesn't show up at all and tasker shows up multiple times in the widget.
[Android Apps and Games] dapaua:
I know. But as nobody was complaining until today, i thought it was just happening to me.

Persistent notifications don't appear because they don't have ticker text. I could enable these, but then I would need to fix the second bug you report.

Some apps like to remove their notification and add them again. The system doesn't tell me when a notification is removed, either by the user or the original app. What I will do is skipping the notification if it has exactly the same text as the last one from the same app. I think this shoudl fix both bugs. But, again , I need the time to do this. I'll try to do all this tomorrow, but I am not promising anything.

Thanks for your report.

I think this would also fix the problems makejau was having with tasker.
[Android Apps and Games] shantzg001:
Thanks. No problems. Take your time. This is a nice app and I'm willing to stick with it despite a few minor shortcomings which I can see easily see disappear soon :)

Edit: An idea for multiple notifications. I figured that tasker creates multiple notifications because it updates the notification whenever there is a profile change, so same text comparing might not work in that case. Maybe you could instead filter based on same package name? I know that an app can create multiple notifications as well but in reality I've never seen any app create multiple notifications. So, based on package name, you should be able to remove the older notifications from same package.

Edit 2: Just putting these things in here as future suggestions as well. In JB, notifications can be expandable, but the app doesn't show the expanded text, so probably that can be added (can be tested on emulator or I'm wiling to test on my phone if you need.)

Also, in JB, a notification can have upto 5 strings of text which the notification browser can implement to show. JB uses this generally to show the "merged" notifications. e.g., if you get 2 emails, then the same notification, when expanded, will show a preview of both emails.
[Android Apps and Games] dapaua:
OK, I'm uploading the new version in the first post.

This version should work on JB LockScreen,as the test version did. Also, I tried to remove duplicated notifications. I added an option called "Transparent widget title". The title is there, but it is invisible, so you can tap it to go to the main app and settings and you can tap the right part to delete notifications. The old option to completely hide the title is still there.

I await your comments :)

The part of filtering notifications will need to wait, it looks complicated to implement the settings (I need to create a new task with the app list, with checkboxes and all that, it is a lot of work).

About JB notifications, I'll have to look into it, but I will need a JB device. I'll check if I can use my old asus Transformer, installing an unofficial rom to work with this, but that would be at home, and not at my office where I code in my spare time.

The option to show only the last notification for each app is there since some versions, don't remember how many, but it is called "Only 1 notif per app". This hides all notifications for an app but the last one.
[Android Apps and Games] dapaua:
V16 added.

Please read the release history in second post.

I am awaiting your feedback :)
[Android Apps and Games] shantzg001:
Thanks. Installed the new version. Will report back with feedback soon. Apologies, I missed the 1 notif per app option :)

BTW, for JB, you can also test it in emulator isn't it?
[Android Apps and Games] dapaua:
Hi,

yes, I suppose I could try it in the emulator, you are right. I'll check it.

Don't apologize for not finding the option. I think we both would agree that: (1)the settings option is a mess :) and (2) I need to write some manual for the app, because it is much more complex than I expected when I started coding it.
[Android Apps and Games] dapaua:
What the different options in the app do.

Widget Background: Allows you to choose the background from three not that different options.

Widget opacity: Allows you to make the widget transparent. 100% opacity means not transparent a t all. 0% means totally transparent.

Icon type: Allows you to choose between 4 different options for the icon. "Notification" means the small icon that appears in the notification bar. Application is the icon shown in the launcher for the app. Original means the original colors. Coloured means that it will use the "Color for notifications" value.

Use notification icon: Some notifications show a different icon when the notification bar is expanded, for example Gmail or whatsapp. The program will use this icon if available instead of the one set in "Option type".

Use blacklist: Filters the notification according to the blacklisted apps list. If an app is in the list, enabling this option disables its notifications in the widget.

Blacklisted apps: Space separated list of packagenames for the apps that are disabled when "Use blacklist" is set to true. You can add as many apps as you like using the package name.

Title text size: Text size for the notification title (What is shown in folded notifications).

Body text size: Text size for all the other text that is shown in unfolded notifications.

Only 1 notif per app: When an app adds a new notification, old ones are automatically removed if this option is enabled.

Show the clock. Will show a clock over the notifications.

Remove widget title: Will totally hide and disable the widget title and clear all notifications button.

Transparent widget title: Will hide but not disable the widget title and clear all notifications button.

Hide clock if there are more than...: Will hide hte clock when there are more than the selected umber of notifications. The clock will appear again when the notifications are cleared.

Swap title and subtitle: Notifications have a ticker text, that briefly appears in the notification bar. This is the title. Then they have the text that appears when you unfold the notification bar. Sometimes they contain different text. Enabling this option will exchange both values. I prefer to have this set to enabled, but you can choose.

Color for UI elements: Color for the buttons and title.

Color for notifications: Color for the text in the nofications, and the notification icons if the coloured option is selected in "Icon type".
[Android Apps and Games] skratch1702:
Re: [WIDGET][ICS] NotificationBrowser v16

Working great with WidgetLocker now! Thanks a bunch man :D
[Android Apps and Games] dapaua:
That's nice, and unexpected :).Maybe adding the lockscreen option fixed it. I'll try it right now.

EDIT: Doesn't work for me, also I see that there is a problem after adding more than one widget in different apps.

I'll try to fix it next week.

Did you change anything from widgetlocker settings?
[Android Apps and Games] skratch1702:
Re: [WIDGET][ICS] NotificationBrowser v17

I changed nothing in WidgetLocker settings. It still doesn't work as far as clicking on each notification I just hide the text at the top & tap to delete notifications. Also everytime I reboot I get the "choose input method" (using a 3rd party keyboard) & "preparing network" exactly how do I blacklist these?
[Android Apps and Games] dapaua:
If everything works (I didn't really have the time for testing, I wanted to finish it before the weekend), when you tap a notification, in the last line you get the originating app. for example, for an email, the last line says:

Gmail (com.google.android.gm) .

Then, you go to settings, enable "Use blacklist" and then to "Blacklisted apps" and add com.google.android.gm at the end.

So it reads:

com.android.providers.downloads android com.google.android.gm

Then it will filter the new notifications from gmail. For other programs, you do the same thing.
[Android Apps and Games] makejau:
Re: [WIDGET][ICS] NotificationBrowser v17

Issue with tasker is gone. Nice! Now it just shows one notification. I'm testing the filtering option. Let's see how it works:thumbup:

EDIT: Tested filtering whatsapp: works!
[Android Apps and Games] dapaua:
Nice :)

I've been fixing the clock, as sometimes it showed an old time. It works by updating the time every so often (about 40 seconds), so it should be only be off at most by a minute. But if the device is sleeping, it would show for a while a very old time, because it doesn't update when the phone sleeps. Now I set it to update when the screens turns on also, so it should work correctly.

I've been trying to obtain the info from the new notifications from JB. I couldn't obtain the text or images, I'm really sorry, but that it's too difficult for me. You need to use reflections, and I should look at the android source code to see the real data structure. I'm just not ready to do that at this point, as I am an amateur programmer.

I'll upload the update with the fixed clock.

What ideas do you have now, guys? And any idea for new backgrounds? I'm not going to add pictures, but I can draw squares and gradients and so. I'm using ShapeDrawables for the background.

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/drawable-resource.html#Shape
[Android Apps and Games] dapaua:
New version.

I completely recoded the notification capture engine, should me much more compatible with JB. It is still not working with the new expandable notifications.

I added some shadows to the text, I can remove them if you don't like it for new versions.

Now, if you tap the clock it will open the main app. Also, the clock can show the battery level. It will refresh every 40 seconds, as the clock, and it will show if the charger is plugged or unplugged with an upward arrow.

I have a petition: Can anybody design some icons for the app, or the app buttons? I find the ones I have now quite ugly, but I am no artist.

Thank you :)
[Android Apps and Games] skratch1702:
Re: [WIDGET][ICS] NotificationBrowser v19

So far it's working better as far as the clock. I don't really think the decimal is needed for the battery percentage though. An option for the notification icons is allowing the user to choose his own if that's something you could add. Most users have their preferred icons they use with their preferred launcher. And allowing them to pick those will match their themes perfectly.
[Android Apps and Games] dapaua:
Thanks for the advices. You are totally right about the decimal on the battery percentage, I just didn't notice until I left the office :) This will be fixed tomorrow.

About the custom icons, that's a very good idea, I myself use icon packs in my launcher. I just need to learn how to do that :)

And there's a couple more things I need to fix.
[Android Apps and Games] skratch1702:
Re: [WIDGET][ICS] NotificationBrowser v19

Just keep up the great work. This is almost perfect!
[Android Apps and Games] dapaua:
I have the icon pack engine working. Now I need to make the settings part where the user chooses which theme pack to use. I hope to finish this part soon, but I'm not sure if it will be finished today.I am using the VaporIce icon pack.

Here is the screenshot.
[Android Apps and Games] Tsular:
This can be useful, thank you!
[Android Apps and Games] makejau:
Can't see the screenshot :s great idea about the icons!

I think it would be nice if Roboto font could be used, it would merge the widget with the entire interface. I guess you know where to find it, but I just got it to use it on my Minimalistictext widgets and it looks like everything is Roboto-themed. http://developer.android.com/design/style/typography.html

Also the clock would be more similar to stock one, wich I think is very cool.

One more thing, after updating I lost all the blacklisted apps and have to manyally add them againg. Any possibility to keep the list after updatings?

No need to say: as always great work blabla ;)
[Android Apps and Games] dapaua:
It should use your system font, so if you are using roboto, it should be using roboto. It is strange that it doesn't in your case, I'll check it.

About the stock clock, you mean the JB one, with bolded hour digits? I'll check that too.

And you shouldn't have lost your blacklist after updating. I'm updating it constantly with lots of test versions and I never lost my settings. But I'll look into that too. May be I should add some backup to SD funcionality, but this will come at a later time.

Thanks :)
[Android Apps and Games] dapaua:
Test Version

I am uploading here a version with icon theme support. Just download a theme, like this one:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.r3dx.launch.vaporice

The icon pack has to support adw, most of the packs do.

And then go to settings and choose the theme.

Please, I need feedback on this, because I changed a lot of code and want to know if it works correctly. If it works, I'll upload it to the playstore.

Thank you!
[Android Apps and Games] skratch1702:
Re: [WIDGET][ICS] NotificationBrowser v20

Getting ready to test it now. I'll let you known how it goes.

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Okay. I can't figure out how to get the theme I use to show up in the notifications. It is an ADW compatible them. I select it but under the icon type it still just has the original four choices.
[Android Apps and Games] dapaua:
You need to choose either app icon original or app icon coloured.

Thank you!
[Android Apps and Games] skratch1702:
Re: [WIDGET][ICS] NotificationBrowser v20

Okay. I'm guessing it won't work work for me since I am back to all stock on my S3 & use TouchWiz. I just manually change my icons. One more thing. Everytime I reboot I get the notification "Preparing Network" Which is listed as "com.samsung.syncservice" I have put this on my blacklist but it still shows up. Any idea why?
[Android Apps and Games] dapaua:
Why is it not working? This is independent from your launcher theme. You need to go to the widget settings, then to "Choose icon theme". Choose any theme except default. Then go to "Icon type" and choose "App icon (original)" . You should see your notifications themed. Can you try it so I know it works? It worked on my device, but it would be really helpful if other people could test it and report.

After that, if you don't like it, set it back to default, but it would help me a lot to know if it is working correctly. Thank you.

About the preparing network:That's weird. I'll check the code for the blacklist, to see if I'm missing anything. Thanks. Can you check if you wrote that exactly, without spaces (keyboards tend to add a space after the periods ) or capital letters?

EDIT:I am planning to add a blacklisted apps chooser, it won't always be like this, that you have to write the package names.
[Android Apps and Games] skratch1702:
Re: [WIDGET][ICS] NotificationBrowser v20

I still only get the original Samsung icons. Not really a big deal for me though. As for my "preparing network" problem I installed the version from the market instead of the one I got from this site & it works perfectly. It also worked perfectly yesterday so I'm guessing it's something in the latest version you have on this site. I find it strange but this is what happened.
[Android Apps and Games] dapaua:
Thanks for trying and for the bug reports. :)
[Android Apps and Games] skratch1702:
Re: [WIDGET][ICS] NotificationBrowser v20

One more suggestion. Since I use this on my lockscreen & I'm sure a lot of people will do the same is it possible to add a privacy feature to SMS messaging so that instead of showing the actual message text it just says sonething like "new message" Sorry for all of my questions & suggestions I'm just trying to help you & help myself at the same time. Thanks again man.:)
[Android Apps and Games] dapaua:
That's a very good idea. I'll try to implement it.

Don't be sorry, user feedback and suggestions are very important in software development. You, and all the people posting ideas and bugs, are really helping me a lot.

Thank you.
[Android Apps and Games] dapaua:
v22

I added v22 to the first post. New things are:

-APW theme support. Please send feedback.

-Blacklist with app selector. The old text based mode is still functional, because system services cannot be shown there, so you'll need to add them by hand.

-Privacy mode list. Choose apps there and instead of showing the notification content, they will show "New notification". This is useful if widget is in lockscreen.

-Revamped settings screen.

-New bugs! I expect lots of new bugs, because there are lots of changes in this version. Please, report if you find any. This version is not in the Play store, I'll wait a couple of days to find bugs before uploading it.

I really need bug reports.

Next on my list is:

-Nicer clock.

-tapping at the sides of the clock will delete all notifications, so we can get totally rid of the widget title bar, saving some space in the home screen.

-Your suggestions :)

Thanks for the support!!
[Android Apps and Games] skratch1702:
Re: [WIDGET][ICS] NotificationBrowser v22

Just installed & will test all weekend on lockscreen. :)
[Android Apps and Games] makejau:
Re: [WIDGET][ICS] NotificationBrowser v22

Same here. I'll test it the next couple of days
[Android Apps and Games] dapaua:
New clock

This is the new clock i'll add to the new version once I'm sure everything still works:
[Android Apps and Games] dapaua:
I added v 23 to first post.

Changelog:

Fixed some bugs that made the clock or the notification list to freeze.

Added a new clock. At some point it will be configurable.

I'll add this version to the playstore tomorrow, after some stability tests. It will now show a static notification in the notification bar, because when memory is low, the service was killed. This should avoid it. I may make this optional at some point, also. I hope you enjoy this new version.
[Android Apps and Games] dapaua:
I am curious about one thing. Most of the widget users are from Indonesia, according to Google. Does anybody know how this happened? I find this very nice and interesting.

EDIT:

I am sorry. I wrote it has APW theme support, but it is ADW theme support :P . My fault.
[Android Apps and Games] skratch1702:
Re: [WIDGET][ICS] NotificationBrowser v23

Everything worked great running it on widgetlocker. I think you've just about got it right. Great work. :)
[Android Apps and Games] dapaua:
Thank you :)

Next thing I'm going to add is a wifi/cell signal icon, to completely replace the status bar. What do you think?
[Android Apps and Games] skratch1702:
Re: [WIDGET][ICS] NotificationBrowser v23

As long as it's an option for the user to chose I think it's another great idea :D
[Android Apps and Games] dapaua:
version v24

Okay, new options, so I need testers. Can you give feedback? In a few days of testing I will upload it to the Play Store.

Do you have suggestions?

Thank you.
[Android Apps and Games] skratch1702:
Re: [WIDGET][ICS] NotificationBrowser v24

I am really digging the wifi & data icons but I have one suggestion. I think the clock would look better centered without the big AM/PM. Maybe make this an option? Damn this widget is nice though. :D

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One more thing. To keep it all centered maybe have wifi on one side of the clock & data on the other? Again just suggestions.
[Android Apps and Games] dapaua:
I'll add the option to hide AM/PM. I never realized it was being shown because in Spain we use 24h time format, and I made the widget in a way that it uses the hour preferences from the country settings.

About the wifi and clock indicators, for now I'll leave them as they are. Making the widget layout is a real nightmare, it took me along time to get the wifi and and data icons to show! :) . If at some time I feel brave enough, I'll add the option.

A question. Can anybody send me screenshots to renew the ones I have on the play store? My phone has a small screen and I's like some hi-res pictures. Thank you!

EDIT. The new version is finished, but xda is not working correctly right now and I can't attach it. I'll try it later.
[Android Apps and Games] skratch1702:
As soon as xda is working properly I'll get your some screen shots
[Android Apps and Games] dapaua:
Thank you!!! :)
[Android Apps and Games] dapaua:
v25 added!!
[Android Apps and Games] skratch1702:
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[Android Apps and Games] skratch1702:
There's a few for you. I tried to pm them but couldn't get it to go through. Let me know how they turn out when you download them & if they will do the job.

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[Android Apps and Games] dapaua:
These are great! Thank you so much! I already added them to the play store. It was very nice of you to use several configurations to show what the program can do!
[Android Apps and Games] skratch1702:
Much obliged. I appreciate the great things this app can do :)

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[Android Apps and Games] dapaua:
I made a new app, Contacts Notification !

Please check it out!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2149528
[Android Apps and Games] android404:
Seems like a great app! On my note, latest cm10 nightly, in the app itself notifications are shown correct but the widget is white, just showing "notification browser" and an X. Am I doing something wrong?

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Figured out out! I had my launchers dpi changed. None of the widgets I created after that are working. Works now.

Kudos for not asking for Internet permission. Great, great app!
[Android Apps and Games] dapaua:
Nice to hear you solved it.
[Android Apps and Games] bixirulo:
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[Android Apps and Games] Dovidhalevi:
Needs to bring up the lock-pattern or drag when one selects the "arrow" to go to that notification. May be a JB or cm10.1 compatibility. Now, it brings up the app but the lockscreen is still there, unchanged.

Another idea: Since we will usually need the notifications drawer entry to keep the app running, tapping that may as well bring up the app which is useful in its own right. (This would be a standard implementation, probably.)
[Android Apps and Games] tbudke:
For some reason it won't let me select the notification widget. :( any ideas?
[Android Apps and Games] dapaua:
Sorry for not answering before, I was out of the city, I have seen your mail, too.

I don't know why it is not working, I did nothing special in the widget list, it should just work :(
[Android Apps and Games] tbudke:
Bummer. Thanks anyway! :)
[Android Apps and Games] -ix-:
Sv: [WIDGET][ICS] NotificationBrowser v25

Hi, just found your app when searching for an alternative to DashClock. First impression, looks great!

I soon enough found that I have to do a lot of blacklisting, starting with "searching for GPS signal..." and "GPS signal found." which appear several times just by starting Facebook.

I tried to blacklist the package name but it doesnt seem to work. Any tips?

May i suggest, for a future release, that one can choose to blacklist straight from the widget?

Thanks a lot for a great widget. Keep it up! :)

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