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1. Is there an option for setting the weather interval refresh time? I haven't find any, so if there is none, can you please tell me what is the default refresh time? And, can be such a feature in an upcoming version of the application?

2. When you tap in the Change Location, you can see the forecast for the days to come. As for a weather icon there is alaways one specific, other than the weather icon that your selected widget uses. Can the icon be the same as the weather widget you have selected?

Click on the widget and go to "Change location" -> Settings/weather options->Update interval.

This works like the pc version. You see the 15-days forecast panel that uses the accuweather style. Is a part of the app that not depends on the widget's weather icon. So (I don't know for the next versions) for now the answer is no.

i'm in a village xx kilometers away from a major Greek city

Yes, i'm Greek and i live in Toumba, Thessaloniki.

As i wrote to you, Beautiful Widget and Fancy Widget do find my location automatically. The same time XWidget doesn't, that's why i asked.
So, i assume that XWidget's dev should improve the application, cause all three apps mentioned are using Acceweather data.

Ps. Επίσης σου έχω γράψει και στο profile σου στο deviantart, σχετικά με τα Galaxy S4 και S5 widget, που φαίνονται διαφορετικά στο Nexus 4. Είμαι το ίδιο άτομο. :p
Καλά να περνάς στην όμορφη και αγαπημένη Ιταλία.

and this is my weather widget mod for my Galaxy Note N7000
mod by me with new images

https://hostr.co/bwa2N2VEjEd8

If you wanna make a new Xwidget

;)

I try to use weather widgets that only have Accuweather or at least they have it as an option for you to choose it, because it has the most accurate predicions in my area, as i have tried many others (yahoo, weatherbug and so on).
By using the manual search i can find almost every city/village i want. The problem appears only when i want the widget to locate my location automatically. When i'm away from Thessaloniki (ie Giannitsa) it keeps saying Thessaloniki, which is annoying. Maybe if i go some kilometers northern at Edessa, it'll show the right name of the city, but it should have worked for everywhere.

manost wrote:

Thats because the location auto-detection by AccuWeather uses your IP Address to estimate your location. It works fine for wired connections like DSL, Broadband in desktops but not in case of Mobiles. The location of the IP Address is teh location where your career has its base station gateway. And in my case it works to a city 400 Kilometers away!

Other widgets use GPS and other forms of location gatering available in Android. (A whole comprehensive loaction API), but the support is not built in yet.

ok....take it easy...BUONA PASQUA

Author:	manost [ April 1st, 2014, 12:55 am ]
Post subject:	Request for Android version
1. Is there an option for setting the weather interval refresh time? I haven't find any, so if there is none, can you please tell me what is the default refresh time? And, can be such a feature in an upcoming version of the application? 2. When you tap in the Change Location, you can see the forecast for the days to come. As for a weather icon there is alaways one specific, other than the weather icon that your selected widget uses. Can the icon be the same as the weather widget you have selected?

Author:	Jimking [ April 1st, 2014, 1:50 am ]
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Topic moved it in the right section.

Author:	Jimking [ April 1st, 2014, 1:56 am ]
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Hello manost. Quote: 1. Is there an option for setting the weather interval refresh time? I haven't find any, so if there is none, can you please tell me what is the default refresh time? And, can be such a feature in an upcoming version of the application? Click on the widget and go to "Change location" -> Settings/weather options->Update interval. Quote: 2. When you tap in the Change Location, you can see the forecast for the days to come. As for a weather icon there is alaways one specific, other than the weather icon that your selected widget uses. Can the icon be the same as the weather widget you have selected? This works like the pc version. You see the 15-days forecast panel that uses the accuweather style. Is a part of the app that not depends on the widget's weather icon. So (I don't know for the next versions) for now the answer is no.

Author:	manost [ April 1st, 2014, 3:46 am ]
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First of all thank you for reply and for moving the topic into the right section. jimking wrote: Click on the widget and go to "Change location" -> Settings/weather options->Update interval. Thanks for the tip. Even if i'm sure that i tried all the options/settings before posting without result, now everything is ok. Only one last thing. Now that i'm writing this post, i'm in a village xx kilometers away from a major Greek city and the widget keeps showing the name if this city (automatic finding of my location), and it only shows the correct location if i point it manually. Is the automatic finding suppossed to find my correct location and not a city some kilometers away? Ps. Other widgets that are using Accuweather as weather provider (such as Beautiful Widget and Fancy Widget) can automatically find my correct location. Quote: This works like the pc version. You see the 15-days forecast panel that uses the accuweather style. Is a part of the app that not depends on the widget's weather icon. So (I don't know for the next versions) for now the answer is no. Thanks.

Author:	Jimking [ April 1st, 2014, 4:47 am ]
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Quote: i'm in a village xx kilometers away from a major Greek city Hey man you're Greek or a foreigner who do the holidays in Greece?! (because I'm Greek!) About your question, I always use the manually city option. In the other hand the app uses the Accuweather data for find the location. I have fancy widgets pro on my phone too. Have you tried to check if fancy widget, using the accuweather provider, finds this location? If yes, then I suppose that the XWidget dev has to improve it. But as I told you I think that this depends on the accuweather's data. At the end don't forget that the app is in initial stage and the dev tries to fix some bugs and add more features taken from the pc version.

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Author:	manost [ April 1st, 2014, 5:44 am ]
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Yes, i'm Greek and i live in Toumba, Thessaloniki. As i wrote to you, Beautiful Widget and Fancy Widget do find my location automatically. The same time XWidget doesn't, that's why i asked. So, i assume that XWidget's dev should improve the application, cause all three apps mentioned are using Acceweather data.

Author:	Jimking [ April 1st, 2014, 6:45 am ]
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manost wrote: Yes, i'm Greek and i live in Toumba, Thessaloniki. As i wrote to you, Beautiful Widget and Fancy Widget do find my location automatically. The same time XWidget doesn't, that's why i asked. So, i assume that XWidget's dev should improve the application, cause all three apps mentioned are using Acceweather data. Γειά σου πατρίδα! Έλληνας και γω αλλά πιο πολύ καιρό ζω Ιταλία απ'όπου σου γράφω! (θα σου γραψω στα αγγλικά για να καταλάβουν και οι άλλοι) Beautiful Widget and Fancy Widget have more than one weather provides, thats why I told you to check if selecting the accuweather for these apps it works or not.. Try to use the manual search. If you still not find your city I suppose that you need to wait for the next/s version/s of the app. pm: I'm curious. I don't know if you use the pc version of XWidget, but have you tried to search the city there? TIP: Pay attension at how you write the name of the city. For example in the last version of XWidget, accuweather data changed even the name from Athens to "Athina".

Author:	manost [ April 1st, 2014, 7:11 am ]
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I try to use weather widgets that only have Accuweather or at least they have it as an option for you to choose it, because it has the most accurate predicions in my area, as i have tried many others (yahoo, weatherbug and so on). By using the manual search i can find almost every city/village i want. The problem appears only when i want the widget to locate my location automatically. When i'm away from Thessaloniki (ie Giannitsa) it keeps saying Thessaloniki, which is annoying. Maybe if i go some kilometers northern at Edessa, it'll show the right name of the city, but it should have worked for everywhere. I don't use the desktop version of XWidget because i don't need it in my pc, but in my smartphone a weather widget is a must. Thanks for your replies, και χάρηκα που τα είπαμε. Ps. Επίσης σου έχω γράψει και στο profile σου στο deviantart, σχετικά με τα Galaxy S4 και S5 widget, που φαίνονται διαφορετικά στο Nexus 4. Είμαι το ίδιο άτομο. :p Καλά να περνάς στην όμορφη και αγαπημένη Ιταλία.

Author:	Jimking [ April 1st, 2014, 8:23 am ]
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manost wrote: Ps. Επίσης σου έχω γράψει και στο profile σου στο deviantart, σχετικά με τα Galaxy S4 και S5 widget, που φαίνονται διαφορετικά στο Nexus 4. Είμαι το ίδιο άτομο. :p Καλά να περνάς στην όμορφη και αγαπημένη Ιταλία. Το ιδιο ατομο ε!? Την ειδα λοιπον την απαντηση σου στο DA και σου απαντησα.. Οσο για τον αυτόματο εντοπισμο ισως τελικα να θελει βελτίωση απο τον Dev. Και γω χαρηκα που τα ειπαμε! Να εισαι και περνας καλα.

Author:	andromeda1968 [ April 17th, 2014, 12:16 am ]
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Hi...forum fantastic How can I convert this original apk weather widget LG https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B78EY4W ... sp=sharing in xwp format for Xwidget ??? It's difficult? thanks

Author:	Jimking [ April 17th, 2014, 12:56 am ]
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Hi andromeda. Could you pls upload a screenshot? Lately I converted a lot(I think all!) of widgets from LG so maybe I already made it! About "how" to convert, there is no a particular way. Just rename the file from .apk to .zip (the apks are actually compressed filess) and then use the files inside/images from the right folders to design the widget. From there is pure design procedure since you will have only the parts of the widget.

Author:	andromeda1968 [ April 17th, 2014, 1:11 am ]
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thanks...it's the LG G pad 8.3 weather widget

Author:	Jimking [ April 17th, 2014, 1:19 am ]
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Hmm.. I think that this is missing from my LG widgets collection. It's similar with the Samsung Galaxy weather widgets though, just with this little transparency on the top-right angle, like this one: http://jimking.deviantart.com/art/LG-Op ... -445220208 I will analyse your .apk andromeda and I will try to post it as soon as possible. Just remember that all the widgets posted here and in DA are for the pc version of XWidget. If you need it for Android you need to download it from the Android Gallery though the app. There is a file limit for the Android widgets <10Mb so I hope that the final widget will be there. And don't worry for the 71Mb original apk file because there are a lot of files there that are useless...

Author:	Jimking [ April 17th, 2014, 1:30 am ]
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One more question: As I notice there are some small differences between the screenshots, so which of these will have the final appearence? I like this one: (to have a bit different design from the Galaxy's ones)

Author:	Jimking [ April 17th, 2014, 1:49 am ]
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I had to resize your images. Were too big! Anyway, since I have the background images the position of the txt is the "easy" part. The hard part is to put them on the widget. About the big final file size: 1) I can use 8 images for the wth conditions instead of 40, but unfortunately we will loose the "night lightning", "night snow" and "night rain" images.. 2) I can play resizing the images to decrease the Kbs of each image. I checked and the dimension of the images that I want to use is 996x493, that are too big anyway.

Author:	Jimking [ April 17th, 2014, 2:14 am ]
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I decrease a little the default images from 996x493 to 800x396 and with 40 pngs the weather folder's size is 3,73Mb! So no need to loose some of the night images. About the 8 images: Accuweather tag/code of XWidget give us the possibility to use 8 images for the weather conditions: sun, cloudy, fog, rain, lightning, moon_cloudy and moon. This is more easy to create, than have 40 pngs and with minor file size widget. The only 'negative' is that are missing some images, but if you think better is not a big deal, since the weather conditions are the same.. But in this case don't worry. I'll use 40 pngs. 3,73Mb is only the folder with the wth conditions pics and with the rest txts,font will have ~5Mb final size. So it's ok. I think that I will post it today..

Author:	Jimking [ April 17th, 2014, 2:22 am ]
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One more last thing: All the images from the .apk that you uploaded don't have this little transparency on the right corner. And is a bit pity because it will be a nice touch... So I don't know how "original" is the .apk... I don't know where you found it but I think that is the same file that I found time ago from XDA.

Author:	andromeda1968 [ April 17th, 2014, 3:41 am ]
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it' very difficult to find the original apk LG G pad.....I search for you... thanks friend for your work...fantastic Andrea

Author:	andromeda1968 [ April 17th, 2014, 4:05 am ]
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for your help: http://guidesmartphone.altervista.org/w ... 2-apk-mod/

Author:	Jimking [ April 17th, 2014, 4:43 am ]
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andromeda1968 wrote: for your help: http://guidesmartphone.altervista.org/w ... 2-apk-mod/ Thanks for the link! The first dl link is the widget that you uploaded first. I will download the other to see if has the images with transparency. If not, we have to use the normal images. It will be just a "plus" for the widget..

Author:	Jimking [ April 17th, 2014, 4:47 am ]
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Edit: I found the transparent images inside! Are a bit more wide on size but are more cool.

Author:	Jimking [ April 17th, 2014, 5:02 am ]
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I will try to post it (with two versions/position of the txt) today. So "stay in tough"!

Author:	andromeda1968 [ April 17th, 2014, 5:13 am ]
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ok

Author:	Jimking [ April 17th, 2014, 6:22 am ]
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andromeda1968 wrote: and this is my weather widget mod for my Galaxy Note N7000 mod by me with new images https://hostr.co/bwa2N2VEjEd8 If you wanna make a new Xwidget ;) Your pics are nice but unfortunately not so good in resolution.. Since is very similar with my GS4 weather widget I suggest you to use this one: http://jimking.deviantart.com/art/Galax ... -439801333 ...I'm going to create the two LG Tab widgets now... Edit: The pc version of the widgets will be ~15Mb. The official galleries fo XWidget have file size limit <10Mb. So if you want the widgets for your Android you need to wait for the alternative versions with a bit smaller images OR I can post here the widget's folder that you need to copy manually on your Android though USB.

Author:	andromeda1968 [ April 17th, 2014, 8:19 am ]
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thanks :)

Author:	Jimking [ April 17th, 2014, 8:50 am ]
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I finished them both and I'll them right now!

Author:	Jimking [ April 17th, 2014, 9:02 am ]
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andromeda1968 wrote: beautiful news Here are the widgets: Are made for the pc version of XWidget. viewtopic.php?f=11&t=4389 If you what them for Android I should made some changes. Tell me..

Author:	digigamer [ April 17th, 2014, 11:32 pm ]
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manost wrote: I try to use weather widgets that only have Accuweather or at least they have it as an option for you to choose it, because it has the most accurate predicions in my area, as i have tried many others (yahoo, weatherbug and so on). By using the manual search i can find almost every city/village i want. The problem appears only when i want the widget to locate my location automatically. When i'm away from Thessaloniki (ie Giannitsa) it keeps saying Thessaloniki, which is annoying. Maybe if i go some kilometers northern at Edessa, it'll show the right name of the city, but it should have worked for everywhere. Thats because the location auto-detection by AccuWeather uses your IP Address to estimate your location. It works fine for wired connections like DSL, Broadband in desktops but not in case of Mobiles. The location of the IP Address is teh location where your career has its base station gateway. And in my case it works to a city 400 Kilometers away! Other widgets use GPS and other forms of location gatering available in Android. (A whole comprehensive loaction API), but the support is not built in yet.

Author:	andromeda1968 [ April 19th, 2014, 9:27 am ]
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Jim this is the apk from Galaxy tab pro NEW 2014 for you??? new widget?? :):) https://hostr.co/diCsYzgKp88U

Author:	Jimking [ April 19th, 2014, 11:16 am ]
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I'm in the middle of a widget for PC sistem, so I'll "study" your apk as soon as possible!

Author:	andromeda1968 [ April 19th, 2014, 12:14 pm ]
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ok....take it easy...BUONA PASQUA

Author:	manost [ April 21st, 2014, 1:42 pm ]
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digigamer wrote: manost wrote: I try to use weather widgets that only have Accuweather or at least they have it as an option for you to choose it, because it has the most accurate predicions in my area, as i have tried many others (yahoo, weatherbug and so on). By using the manual search i can find almost every city/village i want. The problem appears only when i want the widget to locate my location automatically. When i'm away from Thessaloniki (ie Giannitsa) it keeps saying Thessaloniki, which is annoying. Maybe if i go some kilometers northern at Edessa, it'll show the right name of the city, but it should have worked for everywhere. Thats because the location auto-detection by AccuWeather uses your IP Address to estimate your location. It works fine for wired connections like DSL, Broadband in desktops but not in case of Mobiles. The location of the IP Address is teh location where your career has its base station gateway. And in my case it works to a city 400 Kilometers away! Other widgets use GPS and other forms of location gatering available in Android. (A whole comprehensive loaction API), but the support is not built in yet. I thought it should have worked exactly the same with both Fancy Widget and Beutifull Widget, because both apps are connecting in Accuweather too, and they auto-detect the location, that's why i asked. Thanks for your answer.

Author:	Jimking [ April 21st, 2014, 3:00 pm ]
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andromeda1968 wrote: ok....take it easy...BUONA PASQUA Here is the Galaxy Tab Pro Weather widget: I hope you like it..! viewtopic.php?f=11&t=4409

Author:	andromeda1968 [ April 21st, 2014, 11:03 pm ]
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thanks again for your fantastic work