[App] Meta Widget - Create widgets from website snippets - Now with Widget Maker

ftgg99 · May 14, 2012

META WIDGET

Meta is a unique app that can turn virtually any online content into dynamic, interactive widgets.

Simply browse to a website, pick a column of text, link or image and enjoy this information right on your home screen!

Why is this cool you ask? Because almost anything can be parsed out of a website - images, blogrolls, RSS feeds or entire windows.

Any widget created through Meta can be customized and automatically updated, or updated on user interaction.

Features

★ Create widgets from almost any website element
★ Parse graphs and images
★ Extract statistics and information from authorized sites
★ Configure widgets (background, alignment, etc.)
★ Automatic updates
★ User defined click actions
★ Lots of other cool stuff

Status

The app is currently quite stable, but we still prefer to call it a beta. So please, do write to us with suggestions or bug reports!

Play Store

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fahrbot.apps.metawidget

The free app has everything but automatic updates. Please buy the Key - that would help us a lot

Screens

Widget Maker

We also make a companion app called Widget Maker. It allows you to staple together many widgets, including Meta Widgets:

XDA: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1688088

Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fahrbot.apps.widgets

Screens:

ftgg99 · May 14, 2012

Reserved for to dos.

b3er · May 15, 2012

Hi! Just maked clean XDA theme for my tablet

ftgg99 · May 15, 2012

Any issues with this first build?

ftgg99 · May 15, 2012

Come come guys - feedback please!

UKseagull · May 15, 2012

I've just installed it and I'm trying to use it with a forum, I can't seem to invoke the keyboard so that I can log in. I'm using a Sensation XL running Gingerbread.

ftgg99 · May 15, 2012

UKseagull said:
I've just installed it and I'm trying to use it with a forum, I can't seem to invoke the keyboard so that I can log in. I'm using a Sensation XL running Gingerbread.

Someone else said this was a problem... though we havent been able to replicate it. Does this happen on all sites? Also, which site are you referring to?

UKseagull · May 15, 2012

I've only tried the one so far http://www.eos-magazine-forum.com/index.php

ftgg99 · May 15, 2012

UKseagull said:
I've only tried the one so far http://www.eos-magazine-forum.com/index.php

Hmm... i just tried on three devices (hc, ics, cm9) and the keyboard pops up fine when clicking the login field.

Can you please try another site? Or maybe a reboot? We use the webkit browser and its not flawless so the keyboard hiding we do at first run may be screwing with it.

Lets see if we can fix this for you.

ftgg99 · May 16, 2012

1.0.2.1

Fixed keyboard issue present on some phones
Fixed image cache optimization (much faster now)
Fixed a rendering issue that occurs if data connection is lost
Fixed a few device-specific issues from user feedback

herrsch0rdev · May 16, 2012

Nice idea, like it. But how do i prevent making a list view from content?

ftgg99 · May 16, 2012

herrsch0rdev said:
Nice idea, like it. But how do i prevent making a list view from content?

Do you mean the list separators?

AlkaDragos · May 16, 2012

This is awesome. Tried to make some widgets, but i don't have so much ideas. Anyway the keyboard sometimes don't work, i must exit and start again, and sometimes back button doesn't go to previous page but exit the widget config. A possible overall preview would be nice(maybe full screen preview) since i make some changes and don't know how the widget will look. Another thing that i noticed is that when i select an element, in selection section it shows on center and nice aligned on every row, but when i put it on homescreen it's just one row after another. Here it's an e.g:

Selection:
---------
###
---------
**

Homescreen:
-------###------**

Also would be possible to take whole div, not only an element from that? I tried to take a div that contains some text and an image, but only the text was selected. This is a nice piece of work, keep up the good work.

ftgg99 · May 16, 2012

AlkaDragos said:
This is awesome. Tried to make some widgets, but i don't have so much ideas. Anyway the keyboard sometimes don't work, i must exit and start again, and sometimes back button doesn't go to previous page but exit the widget config. A possible overall preview would be nice(maybe full screen preview) since i make some changes and don't know how the widget will look. Another thing that i noticed is that when i select an element, in selection section it shows on center and nice aligned on every row, but when i put it on homescreen it's just one row after another. Here it's an e.g:

Selection:
---------
###
---------
**

Homescreen:
-------###------**

Also would be possible to take whole div, not only an element from that? I tried to take a div that contains some text and an image, but only the text was selected. This is a nice piece of work, keep up the good work.

Hi. Thanks. If you like it, please leave a comment on the play store - at this early junction good reviews will help us spend more time making things better

Regarding the preview - its in the works, though it is pretty complex to do. We will use our Prepaid Widget as a template, so you can have a look at that if you want a a preview of how thew preview will look...

Re many elements. ATM its only possible to select one at a time. We are working on an internal launcher which will allow you to move all the elements around. Its slated for release this month.

AlkaDragos · May 16, 2012

ftgg99 said:
Hi. Thanks. If you like it, please leave a comment on the play store - at this early junction good reviews will help us spend more time making things better

Regarding the preview - its in the works, though it is pretty complex to do. We will use our Prepaid Widget as a template, so you can have a look at that if you want a a preview of how thew preview will look...

Re many elements. ATM its only possible to select one at a time. We are working on an internal launcher which will allow you to move all the elements around. Its slated for release this month.

Review added on market. This would be huge, if you can implement multiple elements. Select one, two ore w/e elements and move them around, awesome!
Just something that i forgot to ask, sometimes it takes up to 150MB RAM, usually 50~60MB isn't a bit much?

swiftinmotion · May 16, 2012

Pretty awesome app. I can't for the kufe of me figure out how to set the widget on my desktop. I assume I need the paid app. Most likely user error I'm just dumb lol.

Sent from my HTC Sensation using Tapatalk 2

AlkaDragos · May 16, 2012

swiftinmotion said:
Pretty awesome app. I can't for the kufe of me figure out how to set the widget on my desktop. I assume I need the paid app. Most likely user error I'm just dumb lol.

Sent from my HTC Sensation using Tapatalk 2

It's a widget. Long press on homescreen, search for MetaWidget and start configure it:
- Enter a website, select an element(click on it then use the arrows from bottom to select between multiple elements)
!!! make sure you have the checkbox from bottom-left ticked !!!
- Click on the plus sign near the ticked box to select that element and go to widget preference screen.
- Configure the text alignment, size, background color, w/e...
- Click OK , select widget size then select OK again, and you'r done.

swiftinmotion · May 16, 2012

AlkaDragos said:
It's a widget. Long press on homescreen, search for MetaWidget and configure.

Yeah I've done that.. Once I find a Site and stuff can't figure out how to get back to my desktop

Sent from my HTC Sensation using Tapatalk 2

ftgg99 · May 16, 2012

AlkaDragos said:
Review added on market. This would be huge, if you can implement multiple elements. Select one, two ore w/e elements and move them around, awesome!
Just something that i forgot to ask, sometimes it takes up to 150MB RAM, usually 50~60MB isn't a bit much?

We will implement multiple elements soon when our widget constructor comes out. Within two weeks the beta will be up.

Re ram - this is because of images. And of course the cache of the webkit browser, which once closed is shunted out of ram.

On modern devices this isnt a problem though...

AlkaDragos · May 16, 2012

ftgg99 said:
We will implement multiple elements soon when our widget constructor comes out. Within two weeks the beta will be up.

Re ram - this is because of images. And of course the cache of the webkit browser, which once closed is shunted out of ram.

On modern devices this isnt a problem though...

Nice. About the RAM you are right, when the next version will be out, that won't be a problem

@swiftinmotion - Check out my previous post, i've rewrite it and added some pics.

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