I also wanted to launch a personal widget project as well, so I took a long hard think about what Widgets people really really need and came up with.... wait for it... yes you guessed it... a Battery Widget, doh! Well there wasn't one, so I thought I'd be first at least.
The first incarnation wasn't quite so pretty, but I've got it looking quite nice now. A little 24bit alpha blended glow around the widget helps it blend into any wallpaper. There is also a little charging indicator for the sake of completeness.
If you touch the widget it shows quick links to the Display, Wifi and GPS settings pages. Really this should be replaced with embedded toggles switches to turn GPS/Wifi/Bluetooth/Radio on and off as well as a brightness slider, hopefully I'll get time for that later.Developing home screen widgets on Android is really enjoyable, so if you have any widget ideas, I may well take you up on them.
By the way, if you are wondering how strong the demand for Widgets on Andorid is right now, the Battery Widget hit 3000 downloads in the first 5 days.
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A "brightness" widget would be top of my list. I keep the brightness at zero for day to day use - helps conserve the battery.
But when I'm showing off the phone, doing a demo, or need to find my way in a darkened room, it's good to have the brightness at maximum.
Hmmm.... I'm not doing anything this Sunday... Might be time to break out the SDK!
Terence, I agree. I started work on a brightness slider for the battery widgets settings screen. But in 1.5/Cupcake the brightness api stuff has changed, damn them. I will continue to work on it soon.
Wowee, 2 people I follow from twitter land here, one whom is famous and has been on the BBC Click, and another who is a famous android developer and whos battery widget I use :)
Yes some kind of nice easy, quick to use brightness slider widget would be useful. I guess I will be dedicating at least one of my 'screens' to widgets soon!
Thanks guys.
Hey Mike, I follow you as well, always see your 4 coloured faces icon flash by in twhirl.
ok so number 1 priority is to get a brightness slider going in firmware 1.5
number 2 priority is to hack Android home screen to get more than 3 screens, maybe 5 or 7, while still using the default launcher. I'm running out of widget spaces quickly.
Hi,
I love your Bat widget! It is very useful app which encouraged me to write my first widget (RSS reader)!
I'm a beginner in the Android development so I don't know how to create a onClickListener for the widget. Please, could you give me an advice how to show an other activity (e.g. Dialog) when I tap on the widget?
Cheers,
Jiri
Jiri, the best place to check is the Android developers blog article I referenced.
But what you need to do is when your widget receives the call to update itself, set a PendingIntent on whichever items you want to make clickable. For example
Intent defineIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("http://google.com"));
PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(context,0 /* no requestCode */, defineIntent, 0 /* no flags */);
updateViews.setOnClickPendingIntent(R.id.widget, pendingIntent);
It is all in this post http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/04/introducing-home-screen-widgets-and.html
If you could code a Twitter widget that is just a text-box and "send button" that can sit on the home screen I would cry with happiness - something like the Google search box but for posting to twitter.
I spend too much time twittering.
I'd love a calendar widget because the one that's built into 1.5 is awful, it only displays 1 item in a massive block and it doesn't display what's on the current day, just what's coming up from tomorrow onwards!
After I installed the battery widget, the phone and acore applications starts crashing. A assume the memory runs out (I have 98Mb total). After I deleted the battery widget from the main screen, I still see the com.geekyouup.android.widget loaded in the memory (using the top utility). And it consumes 86Mb.
Why?
Hi,
Please let me know where I can download the battery widget.
Regards
Flemming
do you have an alternate address where i can download the battery app. i cant access it from the android app on my market place. i would really appreciate it. thanks.
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