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Ok, noted. Have fun.

It's seriously funny to see some Devs act like they are above the average person.
 
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Any actual issues with the app?
 
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Nothing notable to cite yet, I want to make sure I know what I'm doing first. I will provide feedback in a day or two.


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I see there have been a couple of instances where you seem to be annoyed by your customers. One user asked for a feature due to the limitation of his stock launcher/Android version, at which point you ridiculed him for not having a custom launcher or more recent version of Android that allows him to resize widgets. All he had asked was that he could choose a widget size prior to the creation, to which you stated it's "not going to happen" without much explanation and a rather uncaring approach. Then when he stated he wanted a refund due to the fact you did not disclose the fact he would need a 3rd party launcher, you decided to put him on your ignore list while ridiculing the amount of money he was concerned with ("you want your cents back?") as if the price meant that it was not important that he could not use it as designed.

Another user explained that it is difficult to use and wanted more detailed instructions, to which your reply was that he obviously didn't search and read enough.

Granted, for experienced users/themers/etc these are basic tools of the trade, but unless you want to only sell you app to the 1% of xda elite users, you really need to rethink that type of approach.

But #1 factor for me to fully support an app/Dev is the customer service.

Just my two cents. Carry on
I wanted to say something similar to this last night, but I thought it better to keep my mouth closed. I prefer not to ruffle feathers if it's not absolutely necessary.

While I agree that this application has a ton of potential, if a dev wants to receive valuable feedback from a crowd of beta testers, he can't speak to them with such a condescending tone. We're not children. We simply have questions and are looking for you're insight and assistance.

That said, has anyone else had trouble downloading the app? When I try to downloading from the Play Store, I'll either get an error message (Error processing purchase. [DF-BPA-09]) or the Play Store will just force close. If I try to download from the web based Play Store, I see, "This app will be downloaded to your device shortly." but the download never begins on my phone. I'm running AOKP Milestone 5 ICS 4.0.4 with the FD26 kernal on a Samsung Epic 4G Touch.
 
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Another victim of The List.
 
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Have I discovered a limitation of the app? I have 11 Meta widgets and that seems to be about the limit. I try and create a twelfth and I can go through the process of setting one up, but the last widget doesn't load properly. It is just greyed out showing the old 'Problem loading widget' dialogue.

Is this an intended limitation, or an arbitrary bug? Just curious.

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Have I discovered a limitation of the app? I have 11 Meta widgets and that seems to be about the limit. I try and create a twelfth and I can go through the process of setting one up, but the last widget doesn't load properly. It is just greyed out showing the old 'Problem loading widget' dialogue.

Is this an intended limitation, or an arbitrary bug? Just curious.

Thanks in advance.
The launcher is probably out of memory or working on cache only till it gets cleared.

I have seen a very large image eventually load after about 20 mins.
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is it possible to add a widget returning the search result from "weather in london" for example. in mobile browser you get a nice hourly weather forecast... but it did not work for me with meta widget

any suggestions?
 
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EDIT: For best results I suggest you don't try and use the results of a search query but actually find a website that has the data you want.

Find a webpage which displays the information you are looking for which is in a format which Meta Widgets supports, select the relevant element(s) and that's about it.

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This seems like an awesome idea and a cool feat of programming. I'm really interested in the idea, I just don't know what I would use it for. Just to clarify, I'm not questioning how to use or set it up, just wondering how best I would use it.