[App] Meta Widget - Create Widgets From Any Web Content
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I know someone mentioned being able to hit the desktop version of engadget but for the life of me I can't. It keeps redirecting to the mobile version even though the toggle apparently forces a refresh.
Works fine in desktop for me... But it doesnt matter, just select a non feature article title or text to make a widget.
The feature has no relatives, so you cant make a scrollable list from it.
Looks good !
Hi.
First, thank you for the widget, it looks like exactly what I need: I'm gifting a tablet to my elderly parents, they need an Interface that's big and evocative, so the plan is to make them home pages with 4 web previews (10", 1280x800 tablet).
Your widget looks like exactly what the dotor ordered, and I'm impressed ^^
A couple of remarks and suggestions:
- some SEO is required. I've been looking for such a widget for days, and yours never popped up, neither on the market nor on straight google... I think "web preview" "large".. look at what WebClip uses, that one did pop up (but it sucks, too small, no support for login, no offset, no zoom...)
- I'm struggling with the UI. For example, I want the widget to display the latest post of a Posterous page. I can get the blog's name, but not the latest post. I must be doing something wrong, but I think it would be easier if I could just point at one element as an "anchor", and tell the widget to display content from there on. Or just specify a quick and dirty pixel offset and display from there.
I'm very hopeful I can get this to do what I need. Thanks a lot, and kudos.
Olivier
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For the life of me, I can't get the widget to display more than 1 item. Once I select an item, I puts me on a config page for the final look and feel. No way I could see to go back and add other items. Plus I've no clue how to add dynamic content, like "latest blog post". So I end up with widgets with just.. a title.
I'd really like an "anchor" option, where I point at, for example, a Blog's title, and the widget displays everything from there onward (basically, bypassing the top adds and left menu, which covers 99.9% of web sites). It think this widget is too smart for me ^^
Hi.
First, thank you for the widget, it looks like exactly what I need: I'm gifting a tablet to my elderly parents, they need an Interface that's big and evocative, so the plan is to make them home pages with 4 web previews (10", 1280x800 tablet).
Your widget looks like exactly what the dotor ordered, and I'm impressed ^^
A couple of remarks and suggestions:
- some SEO is required. I've been looking for such a widget for days, and yours never popped up, neither on the market nor on straight google... I think "web preview" "large".. look at what WebClip uses, that one did pop up (but it sucks, too small, no support for login, no offset, no zoom...)
- I'm struggling with the UI. For example, I want the widget to display the latest post of a Posterous page. I can get the blog's name, but not the latest post. I must be doing something wrong, but I think it would be easier if I could just point at one element as an "anchor", and tell the widget to display content from there on. Or just specify a quick and dirty pixel offset and display from there.
I'm very hopeful I can get this to do what I need. Thanks a lot, and kudos.
Olivier
---------- Post added at 05:15 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:02 PM ----------
For the life of me, I can't get the widget to display more than 1 item. Once I select an item, I puts me on a config page for the final look and feel. No way I could see to go back and add other items. Plus I've no clue how to add dynamic content, like "latest blog post". So I end up with widgets with just.. a title.
I'd really like an "anchor" option, where I point at, for example, a Blog's title, and the widget displays everything from there onward (basically, bypassing the top adds and left menu, which covers 99.9% of web sites). It think this widget is too smart for me ^^
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Thanks for your answer. I think in the end your widget does not do what I need: it extracts info from a web page (by tag, I assume) and reformats it, while I just want to simply display a web page, with an offset and zoom factor.
Nice application, would it be possible to be able to use custom fonts that show the output of info.
Looks great! One problem, I use ADW EX launcher and ever since I installed this widget and set up a dozen comics to update when tapped, scrolling between home screens has slowed to a crawl. I even get force closes of ADW a couple times a day. This happens even when I haven't updated the widgets in several hours.
Do I need to have fewer instances?
Do I need to have fewer instances?
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I really like your app and I want to buy the key but I dont have a credit card so I cant buy it in the Play Store. How to get the key?
I really like your app and I want to buy the key but I dont have a credit card so I cant buy it in the Play Store. How to get the key?
Hi. Is anyone able to see the Metawidgets at DPIs below 200?
Using JB 4.1.2 Jelly Bam with Nova, but widgets won't show with any launcher as far as i can tell.
At 200 DPI they do show.
Thanks for the info.
Using JB 4.1.2 Jelly Bam with Nova, but widgets won't show with any launcher as far as i can tell.
At 200 DPI they do show.
Thanks for the info.
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just downloaded but when i tried to start it, it zoomed out like it was about to open an app but closed so it didnt even start to open
also no icon on homescreen or in app draw
no new widgets
i tried reinstalling
i downloaded it off the market
im a p7510 and running galaxy task on a switch me log in thingy
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Alignment works fine for me on all devices i have, what is your device name and firmware version?
