Windows Phone 7 Custom HUB

[CyiDev]

OK guys, I am starting an new project. I will be creating an hub similar to the HTC Hub - however it can not be so similar that is a direct copy. Please let me know in here any requests you guys have. I will continue to update this thread as I progress. The end version will be a paid version, however I will lower the price during a set period of time so that those who contribute will be able to grab a copy for 99 cents and those who do a substantial amount of help will get it free - I will code a secondary system in an update if I can not do this on the marketplace the way I want to. I will clean this post up after a couple of days and skim through the thread for features requested and make a mock-up.

Note: In order to pass certification it will be required that the back button exits the app, I can over-ride this and allow an exit through a settings panel to disable /re-enable.

 

[Aaron McCarthy]

Awesome... count me in to try this bad boy out!

 

[~~Tito~~]

I will move this to SW development since this is an ongoing project, once this is close to an actual product, PM me and I will move it back. IE beta.

~~Tito~~

 

[yeongpeen]

In this hub:
1. Allow to add our own weather widget or clock
2. Don't want fancy animation like the one in HTC, very annoying. Some minor animation or transition effect will do
3. Allow to category the apps with zune UI concept. Critical feature as I don't want to keep putting all my apps in homescreen tiles or the second screen list of apps which is getting too long now. Should have option to choose to display the apps as in tiles layout or list or icon.
4. Option to put wallpaper in Hub background, just like our picture hub.

 

[bigfoune]

great idea !hope you will do differently than in htc
!!

 

[emigrating]

What is the purpose of the hub going to be? and how can the rest of us developers plug into it?

 

[wixxer]

I'd like to see a weather animation, if windows' hub's being pinned to the homescreen. Furthermore it would be nice, if you could implement sth that enables us to change the tile's size again if pinned to the homescreen.

Another "innovation" would be from my point of view, if the windows hub on the homescreen would open "another" fully customizable homescreen, i.e. you have your regular homescreen and in case you feel it is overloaded you reproduce your applications within the windows hub attached to the regular homescreen that opens another homescreen, very much like the folder solution implemented with iOs 4. "screw me"?

 

[martywix]

Love to get my stocks on there also.

Thanks
Marty

 

[ingky520]

its great idea bro,cant wait for this,it will change history of wp7!!!!!!

 

[CyiDev]

Thanks for the ideas so far, keep em coming.

 

[augie7107]

I would like to be able to see sports scores as part of the hub.

I can't seem to find a decent app for WP7 that handles these.

 

[kingjovius]

not sure about the htc hub, but in the samsung equivalent, there is a section on latest news. i dont like this as there arent much im interested in but if you could have a built in rss reader in the hub, that'd be awesome.

 

[Rouz.]

I'd like to see a messaging widget like the one on htc's sense for android. I'm not sure if its implementable though.

Just retrieving the messages and displaying it on a sense-like interface will do.

Im just so bored of reading messages in the wp7's plain messaging environment

 

[DavidinCT]

A hub replacement for HTCs...Hmmm...My vote..

1. Weather (stream lined, 5-10 day forecast with good but fast images)
2. News (RSS feed?, AP news/MSNBC/CNN, to be able to customize page, local/country/subject, etc)
3. Stocks
4. Sports Scores/Stats/standings, also to be able to see all scores but, follow a team/sport, I'd love to see tons of options here
5. Custom RSS section, so you can add a few web pages that offer RSS feeds.

Sounds like a great idea I'll be following this one...

 

[bigfoune]

A hub replacement for HTCs...Hmmm...My vote..

1. Weather (stream lined, 5-10 day forecast with good but fast images)
2. News (RSS feed?, AP news/MSNBC/CNN, to be able to customize page, local/country/subject, etc)
3. Stocks
4. Sports Scores/Stats/standings, also to be able to see all scores but, follow a team/sport, I'd love to see tons of options here
5. Custom RSS section, so you can add a few web pages that offer RSS feeds.

Sounds like a great idea I'll be following this one...

+ 1000 with audio setting and visual equalizer

 

[gamerr120]

A hub replacement for HTCs...Hmmm...My vote..

1. Weather (stream lined, 5-10 day forecast with good but fast images)
2. News (RSS feed?, AP news/MSNBC/CNN, to be able to customize page, local/country/subject, etc)
3. Stocks
4. Sports Scores/Stats/standings, also to be able to see all scores but, follow a team/sport, I'd love to see tons of options here
5. Custom RSS section, so you can add a few web pages that offer RSS feeds.

Sounds like a great idea I'll be following this one...

Totally agree.
Also,
1. A comm manager? So it's easy to toggle radio/wifi/bluetooth on and off
2. A clock like HTC sense, with weather underneath (not the gay apps section which I don't use, if I want an app I use the market place or to launch an app I just slide right and down to the app I want to launch).

With all these ideas, They should be easy to navigate around, instead of creating hyperlinks, maybe make it so each page is a slide to the right, like the metro theme, this will look much easier and be much easier to use rather than using hyperlinks!

 

[djcedric]

if you need something graphic,im in,just pm me

 

[lorenzo.themax92]

good project! if you want a people for translating in italian , contact me

 

[DavidinCT]

Totally agree.
Also,
1. A comm manager? So it's easy to toggle radio/wifi/bluetooth on and off
2. A clock like HTC sense, with weather underneath (not the gay apps section which I don't use, if I want an app I use the market place or to launch an app I just slide right and down to the app I want to launch).

With all these ideas, They should be easy to navigate around, instead of creating hyperlinks, maybe make it so each page is a slide to the right, like the metro theme, this will look much easier and be much easier to use rather than using hyperlinks!

One thing I would love... Make the "live tile" customizable by content.

For Example, during the day it could show weather based on GPS but, during a baseball game(or pick your sport), it will update with current scores on the second and a click of the tile during a game will bring you right to your sports page.

This could work the Same for a few stocks during trading hours but, one the market is closed, go back to a default of weather (an example)

Custom Content where you need it, when you need it.

I think when you click on the tile (AKA open the Hub) it should go into a Weather/Time/Wi-fi/blu-tooth settings/status... kind of a status page but, a flip will bring you to different content.

Just trying to come up with ideas for this. Hope this helps !

 

[FlowerPotmen]

A hub replacement for HTCs...Hmmm...My vote..

1. Weather (stream lined, 5-10 day forecast with good but fast images)
2. News (RSS feed?, AP news/MSNBC/CNN, to be able to customize page, local/country/subject, etc)
3. Stocks
4. Sports Scores/Stats/standings, also to be able to see all scores but, follow a team/sport, I'd love to see tons of options here
5. Custom RSS section, so you can add a few web pages that offer RSS feeds.

Sounds like a great idea I'll be following this one...

Yes me too.