[OFFICIAL] [THEME] [WIDGET] Zooper Widget Screens and Themes

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johnuopini

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Hi All,
I just realized that there is no official thread on XDA where users can share ZW home screens, themes and ideas, so I'm creating one. If you do not know it yet, well, Zooper Widget is a minimal, classy, extremely customizable and battery friendly "do it yourself" Home Screen Widget with almost limitless possibilities.

More info
HOMEPAGE: http://zooper.org/wp/android/zw
MARKET (FREE): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.zooper.zwfree
MARKET (PRO): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.zooper.zwpro
ICONSETS: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2084070
APK SUPPORT: http://goo.gl/mo0Gi
G+GALLERY: http://goo.gl/239Bs

Main features
WYSISYG Widget editor with unlimited Text, Series, Progress Bars, Iconsets, Bitmaps and Shapes. Every aspect is customizable, you can use tons of variables with any kind of data or modify them using conditionals, date calculations, math expressions, bb code like syntax, text filters and more (more info, examples and variable reference on the website).

Free/Pro
Free version on the market is full featured, you can create the same layouts as the Pro, the only difference is that Free does not allow you to save and load external templates, it-s ad based, and has no "hotspot" functionality. Developing software and fixing bugs takes a huge amount of time that's why i needed to split it in two releases, hope you'll understand.

How to share screens and templates
When you save your template Zooper Widget (PRO) stores two files in the SD card, under "ZooperWidget" folder, one is a PNG with a screenshot of your awesome creation (so you can easily post it to the forum) the other one is a ".zw" file containing the template itself. The ".zw" is a zip archive with all the data in it, so if you used Bitmaps, external Fonts, Iconsets or any other resource you won't need to distribute them, those items will be part of the ".zw" template and will be extracted automatically. To load the template on another device you just need to place it in the ZooperWidget SD card folder and load it.

APK skins
Zooper Widget PRO from 2.38 supports APK skin packs, you can store as many templates as you want in a single APK distributable on the market, you can even include templates on existing APK if you want (so you can distribute an Icon Pack for ADW with some ZW template in a single shot), more info here http://goo.gl/mo0Gi

Resizing
Zooper Widget supports automatic resize on load if the template is larger than the target widget, otherwise original size will be kept, you can tune the size using the "Scale" option. Please note that, compared to other similar widgets, ZW does not just scale the output Bitmap, but the source Canvas resulting in a much more clean / smooth image.

What's next?
Zooper Widget is always a work in progress, i just released Bitmap support and I'm now working on really exciting features requested by users (and yes, if you have any idea just ask!). Most important upcoming stuff is:
  • Ability to group or tag layers and move / edit them at once (but remember you can already use the copy/paste functionality to copy one property to multiple items at once)
  • Widget wide Parameters (to allow better APK support, if you want to lock everything and use custom settings)

More
Want to join the beta program? Check out this G+ community: http://goo.gl/DXoig
 
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migueldbr

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zooper widget is awesome, i have been following the official forum. Hope xda members start to show their creativity with this app.

btw you should post some images to show what its possible to do with this widget!
 
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dmoses1969

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Here's a couple I made today playing with this. I'm a noob to Zooper Widget but it's pretty cool so far.

ZooperWidgets_zpsee9b5547.png
ZooperWidgets2_zps1b73a11d.png




Status Bar
Ext Weather
Ext Weather HTC

Credit for iconsets and config file I started with goes to stepdragon in the zooper Thread

What I would really like to do with the status bar is have the WiFi icon appear where the Signal bars are when WiFi is active. For instance if I am at home and have data disabled and wifi enabled, the icons would switch from signal bars to wifi bars. I have no programming skills so if it is possible to make that work in the config file hopefully someone will tweak and share.

The only way I could think of making it work would be having a variable that was checking data connection state and displaying a blank icon if data was disabled.

The WiFi icon disappears when wifi is off and the Alarm icon disappears when alarm is off.
 

johnuopini

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What I would really like to do with the status bar is have the WiFi icon appear where the Signal bars are when WiFi is active. For instance if I am at home and have data disabled and wifi enabled, the icons would switch from signal bars to wifi bars. I have no programming skills so if it is possible to make that work in the config file hopefully someone will tweak and share.

The only way I could think of making it work would be having a variable that was checking data connection state and displaying a blank icon if data was disabled.

The WiFi icon disappears when wifi is off and the Alarm icon disappears when alarm is off.

You can do this, you need to create a custom iconset that checks if WiFi is connected and if connected will show the Wifi bars otherwise i will show the signal ones (same for the Alarm). Please check the config.xml syntax here: http://zooper.org/wp/android/zw/iconsets you can start using the ones you are already using.

WARNING when you use signal info in zooper widget the widgets are updated every time the signal changes, this might use a lot of cpu when screen is on if your signal keeps changing especially if you have a lot of widgets on screen, im working on a solution

P.S. really good home screen! awesome work!
 

dmoses1969

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Busy Body Zooper

This has been one of my favorite themes from UCCW thread. Originally created by John Nada, all credit for theme/layout goes to him. I just changed some things and made it available for Zooper Widget.

All widgets are 5x1. I am using this on my Galazy Note II. Not sure how Zooper handles different screen sizes / Grid sizes of different launchers so hope it works for everyone else. Feedly widget is 4x2 stretched to fit in the middle. Use the wallpaper included in the zip to get the frame that appears around the feedly widget.

Each icon on the widgets are shortcuts to an app. You might have to change the app shortcut for whatever you want.


Busy Body Zooper Widgets



BusyBodyZooperWidgetSetup_zps53488d95.png
 

pbecks1963

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my zooper homescreen

Here's my homescreen powered by zooper (work in progress)

(Lots off hotspots)

earth - free space on sd and usb (blue bars)
moon - free ram (bar around the moon, set to 120 mb free max)
sun - battery temp (red, max = 60 degrees C, green = charge %
 

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Image Fonts

Is it possible to use images as font for Clock Widgets? As in have 10 images 0-1 to use as the clock digits.

Also, what about RSS feeds?
 

nexusNerd

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just basics template

Hi,

This is my first attempt at a template. It a 4x1 for the Nexus 4 lock screen.
you will need to rename the file from zip to zw since xda-developers wont allow native zooper template uploads.

I'd like to know what you think but be nice its my first try.

nexusNerd
 

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pbecks1963

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Hello Guys,

I need some help with my template (post #10). I like the planets but the squares with info on them have to be more sci-fi like. More HUD-like.

Any suggestions?

:laugh:
 

thedesolatesoul

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I really like this widget compared to others (UCCW was way too complex for me). Zooper is the right balance.
I'm trying out a homescreen and its started to look good. I am using Apex launcher (and set both margins to zero).
However, there still seems to be some vertical spacing in some widgets i.e. they are not edge to edge.
Screenshot_2013-05-17-13-52-47.png

https://www.dropbox.com/s/rto9ps1m6oqkxb2/Screenshot_2013-05-17-13-52-47.png
For e.g. the two widgets in the centre should have their edges meeting?

Another question I have is about Cell Signal Strength in ASU. While the range is 0 to 31, I never really go above 17 or 18, and the notification bar shows a different level (for e.g. here you can see the cell strength has 3 bars, but in my yellow progressbar I am less than 50%).

Anyway, thanks to the dev, this is really awesome.
 
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johnuopini

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I really like this widget compared to others (UCCW was way too complex for me). Zooper is the right balance.
I'm trying out a homescreen and its started to look good. I am using Apex launcher (and set both margins to zero).
However, there still seems to be some vertical spacing in some widgets i.e. they are not edge to edge.
Screenshot_2013-05-17-13-52-47.png

https://www.dropbox.com/s/rto9ps1m6oqkxb2/Screenshot_2013-05-17-13-52-47.png
For e.g. the two widgets in the centre should have their edges meeting?

Another question I have is about Cell Signal Strength in ASU. While the range is 0 to 31, I never really go above 17 or 18, and the notification bar shows a different level (for e.g. here you can see the cell strength has 3 bars, but in my yellow progressbar I am less than 50%).

Anyway, thanks to the dev, this is really awesome.

For the edges i can-t really help much as this looks a lot like a launcher problem, i will try to reproduce it and let you know. For the signal that-s quite a complex issue since i do not really know if the notification bar one is really API based or uses some native/hardware trick. I will check that as well.

Thanks a lot for your feedback!
 
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johnuopini

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Is it possible to use images as font for Clock Widgets? As in have 10 images 0-1 to use as the clock digits.

Also, what about RSS feeds?

For clock (digital) widgets you can use images by creating an iconset, is very easy, i can write an example if you want.

For RSS feeds, well, the "web" module is on my todo list since a while, i definitely need to work on it (with RSS and simple html support).
 

thedesolatesoul

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For the edges i can-t really help much as this looks a lot like a launcher problem, i will try to reproduce it and let you know. For the signal that-s quite a complex issue since i do not really know if the notification bar one is really API based or uses some native/hardware trick. I will check that as well.

Thanks a lot for your feedback!
You dont really have to check. I was just wondering if anyone already knew.
Thanks :)
 
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dmoses1969

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For clock (digital) widgets you can use images by creating an iconset, is very easy, i can write an example if you want.

For RSS feeds, well, the "web" module is on my todo list since a while, i definitely need to work on it (with RSS and simple html support).

I would appreciate if you could write an example. As for RSS, that sounds awesome. Cant wait.
 

Turmoe

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Hello Guys,

I need some help with my template (post #10). I like the planets but the squares with info on them have to be more sci-fi like. More HUD-like.

Any suggestions?

:laugh:

Have a look at my Tron like Preview: http://mycolorscreen.com/2013/04/04/t-r-o-n-preview/

Something like that?

Cheers!

---------- Post added at 03:43 AM ---------- Previous post was at 03:36 AM ----------

For the edges i can-t really help much as this looks a lot like a launcher problem, i will try to reproduce it and let you know. For the signal that-s quite a complex issue since i do not really know if the notification bar one is really API based or uses some native/hardware trick. I will check that as well.

Thanks a lot for your feedback!

I'm using Apex as well and ran into the same "problem"

Seems to be an Apex Problem....

Got the same issue with ASU values. But this seems to be a problem with different network types. Just google ASU and you will find a lot of information about it. Not a Zooper Problem, so I work around that problem by setting the max value (progress bar) to 18. works lke a charm... ;)
 

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    Hi All,
    I just realized that there is no official thread on XDA where users can share ZW home screens, themes and ideas, so I'm creating one. If you do not know it yet, well, Zooper Widget is a minimal, classy, extremely customizable and battery friendly "do it yourself" Home Screen Widget with almost limitless possibilities.

    More info
    HOMEPAGE: http://zooper.org/wp/android/zw
    MARKET (FREE): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.zooper.zwfree
    MARKET (PRO): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.zooper.zwpro
    ICONSETS: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2084070
    APK SUPPORT: http://goo.gl/mo0Gi
    G+GALLERY: http://goo.gl/239Bs

    Main features
    WYSISYG Widget editor with unlimited Text, Series, Progress Bars, Iconsets, Bitmaps and Shapes. Every aspect is customizable, you can use tons of variables with any kind of data or modify them using conditionals, date calculations, math expressions, bb code like syntax, text filters and more (more info, examples and variable reference on the website).

    Free/Pro
    Free version on the market is full featured, you can create the same layouts as the Pro, the only difference is that Free does not allow you to save and load external templates, it-s ad based, and has no "hotspot" functionality. Developing software and fixing bugs takes a huge amount of time that's why i needed to split it in two releases, hope you'll understand.

    How to share screens and templates
    When you save your template Zooper Widget (PRO) stores two files in the SD card, under "ZooperWidget" folder, one is a PNG with a screenshot of your awesome creation (so you can easily post it to the forum) the other one is a ".zw" file containing the template itself. The ".zw" is a zip archive with all the data in it, so if you used Bitmaps, external Fonts, Iconsets or any other resource you won't need to distribute them, those items will be part of the ".zw" template and will be extracted automatically. To load the template on another device you just need to place it in the ZooperWidget SD card folder and load it.

    APK skins
    Zooper Widget PRO from 2.38 supports APK skin packs, you can store as many templates as you want in a single APK distributable on the market, you can even include templates on existing APK if you want (so you can distribute an Icon Pack for ADW with some ZW template in a single shot), more info here http://goo.gl/mo0Gi

    Resizing
    Zooper Widget supports automatic resize on load if the template is larger than the target widget, otherwise original size will be kept, you can tune the size using the "Scale" option. Please note that, compared to other similar widgets, ZW does not just scale the output Bitmap, but the source Canvas resulting in a much more clean / smooth image.

    What's next?
    Zooper Widget is always a work in progress, i just released Bitmap support and I'm now working on really exciting features requested by users (and yes, if you have any idea just ask!). Most important upcoming stuff is:
    • Ability to group or tag layers and move / edit them at once (but remember you can already use the copy/paste functionality to copy one property to multiple items at once)
    • Widget wide Parameters (to allow better APK support, if you want to lock everything and use custom settings)

    More
    Want to join the beta program? Check out this G+ community: http://goo.gl/DXoig
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    Busy Body Zooper

    This has been one of my favorite themes from UCCW thread. Originally created by John Nada, all credit for theme/layout goes to him. I just changed some things and made it available for Zooper Widget.

    All widgets are 5x1. I am using this on my Galazy Note II. Not sure how Zooper handles different screen sizes / Grid sizes of different launchers so hope it works for everyone else. Feedly widget is 4x2 stretched to fit in the middle. Use the wallpaper included in the zip to get the frame that appears around the feedly widget.

    Each icon on the widgets are shortcuts to an app. You might have to change the app shortcut for whatever you want.


    Busy Body Zooper Widgets



    BusyBodyZooperWidgetSetup_zps53488d95.png
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    My latest skin - xenon clock :D

    I hope I can inspire someone ;)

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    Hello guys, I commited this yesterday

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