[WIDGET] HTC Clock with RSS feeds

djbrutale · Jun 5, 2011

Hy dudes,

what do you think of my clock widget?
I copied the htc sense clock widget and added RSS feeds...
take a look on the screenshot and tell me if you like it, or what you would change.

Functions:
* Click on the clock -> Settings Activity opens
* Click on the rss feed -> Browser opens with the url to the post
* The displayed rss feed gets switchted every * seconds
* The rss feeds gets updated every * minutes

regards,

Sebastian

charliebigpot · Jun 6, 2011

I love the idea! There should be buttons to scroll through the through the feeds though. What happens if you tap the news feed?
Servus,
Charlie.

k4p741nkrunch · Jun 6, 2011

That looks like an awesome widget! As for the last post, well I'd probably do something better than just one story with some next/previous buttons. If you could make 5 icons or so along the bottom of the clock, one for each rss category/feed and switch to just the top story of each when pressed then you could avoid loading huge amounts of data for just a widget. This would still give the user some variety and the ability to see many types of information from the home screen, something I'm very fond of.

bigfkncee · Jun 7, 2011

Looks pretty slick. Maybe you could add some navigation buttons and a refresh button. Does it auto scroll through the headlines?

djbrutale · Jun 7, 2011

Thx, for the valuable feedback!

Currently the rss content get refreshed every 30min, the widget switches every 10sec the item that gets displayed.
When you click on the text the browser opens to the responding page of the current rss post.
If you click on the watch you get into the config activity where it is possible to change the loading / refresh times and also the rss feed xml http link.

I'm not sure about the buttons, because there is so less space in the widget, if i show the datum, category or buttons, i have to remove at least two lines of the rss feed. But maybe two lines are enough, because if you wanna know more, you can open the web page...

I test the app for the next few days, i'm not sure if it is stable right now. If everything works out, i'll might post it here.. but i'm not sure if i should do that, because the manipulated images are from HTC...

Agosh13 · Jun 8, 2011

djbrutale said:
Thx, for the valuable feedback!

Currently the rss content get refreshed every 30min, the widget switches every 10sec the item that gets displayed.
When you click on the text the browser opens to the responding page of the current rss post.
If you click on the watch you get into the config activity where it is possible to change the loading / refresh times and also the rss feed xml http link.

I'm not sure about the buttons, because there is so less space in the widget, if i show the datum, category or buttons, i have to remove at least two lines of the rss feed. But maybe two lines are enough, because if you wanna know more, you can open the web page...

I test the app for the next few days, i'm not sure if it is stable right now. If everything works out, i'll might post it here.. but i'm not sure if i should do that, because the manipulated images are from HTC...

Maby you can integrate it with google reader official app?

luciferii · Jun 8, 2011

where do we download it from

superkid · Jun 8, 2011

Haha, Nice idea! Waiting for a download link or something!

Scrammy · Jun 8, 2011

Give it to me already! :-D

Looks beautiful.
Yeah, arrows or something to look att next post would be great, altough i see your point in less space...so perhaps a slide-function? slide down for more posts/se more text from the feed.

If you want a Beta tester im willing!
send me a pm och mail me. (Ill promise not to share it if you dont want to

)

typongtv · Jun 8, 2011

very nice......can you provide one with the original sense clock theme?

chpimentelpr · Jun 8, 2011

Just what I need!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great idea, let me know if you need testers.

Scrupix · Jun 8, 2011

It should be like the default htc sense clock

white, not black.
Also it will be perfect if it will be possible to connect him with your google reader account and to show the news from google reader

Where can I download?

UAL4588 · Jun 8, 2011

I think that you should have an option of rotating weather and RSS. I would love to have weather too as my phone is my only source. SO it could be like a rotation between the two every 30 seconds or something. And then maybe you could integrate it with the News app that comes with 2.2 and up so there is an option of updating from google?

ZAIGHAM ALI · Jun 8, 2011

Maybe you can have it "themable" as someone^ said you should make it white

hagthor · Jun 8, 2011

Can't wait!

This looks SO AWESOME!!!

Beowulf_pt · Jun 9, 2011

I don't know about looks but have something like this on my Symbian home and find it very handy. The big clock is useful and easy to read (prefer it with the original HTC font) and the rotating feeds are always useful and informative.. now and then I pick a useful one and just click on it. Useful and pretty good.

To use the space better only adding well, another layer with a little weather symbol, but that's another story.

In any case, good work I'd say. Do refine it.

metalizer2000 · Jun 9, 2011

nice..but it will be great if background color can be changeable

alammori · Jun 10, 2011

djbrutale,

Wir warten um etwas vom dir zu probieren. Lass was mal uploaden.

luciferii · Jun 11, 2011

come on man! stop teasing us with it and just post the widget please! i want it so bad!

JHS_NL · Jun 12, 2011

I would really love to try it as well!

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