Is there a way to get the Pixel Launcher with At A Glance feature working on the Razer Phone 2? Or even another decent launcher with the At A Glance feature?
I like seeing the weather with my current or next calendar event.
My current goto is Lawnchair 2. https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/deletescape/lawnchair/
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I really like some of the Samsung widgets, but to not like the Touchwiz launcher. So, I installed Launcher Pro, which I vastly prefer. Unfortunately, now the Samsung widgets are not in the add widget menu.
Is there any trick I can do to get them back?
I'd also like to know this, the Facebook Stream widget was really useful, the stock one is awful!
sionyboy said:
I'd also like to know this, the Facebook Stream widget was really useful, the stock one is awful!
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Yeah that is the widget I want most as well.
It is the best I have seen for android so far that integrates both twitter and facebook. I tried out this one on the market called "Socialite", it is *OK*, but not as good as the Samsung one.
So i have to decide, do I want a decent integrated Facebook / Twitter widget, or do I want a decent launcher?
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Does anybody have an answer to this? I myself like pretty much all the futures in TW - would mainly like to change the 4 icons on the bottom and maybe even have the ability to hide the notification bar.
Is there a way to incorporate TW samsung widgets into launcher pro for example?
Thanks
I suppose Samsung's widgets are tied to the Touchwiz Launcher and incompatible with other launchers
It's a pity because I really like the Accuweather Clock over the other available widgets. But LauncherPro is so much better than the Samsung Launcher, I can't go without a launcher that lets me hide apps from the app drawer due to the massive amount of crap it gets flooded with.
You can change the left 3 icons on the bottom (but not the Applications one).
Just go to the Applications screen and press Menu and choose Edit. Then, move the icons off and put another in place.
I'm pretty sure it's impossible. I wanted to do that but was told by different ppl it was impossible. Same goes for Launcher Pro widgets in Touchwizz (i prefere the LP ones vs the Samsung). They are tied to the launcher u use.
You could put Home Switcher on each of the home screens of TW and LP then just switch between them just like moving to a different page. Just an idea.
Thanks fro the ideas, sounds like it's a no-go for right now at least.....
One more thing, does launcher pro juice the battery as same as TW? And when I used launcher pro in the past, I really liked to use the option "hide notification bar", i think it gives it a cleaner look, but at the same time it won't notify me when i receive an email ( other than the sound), I did search this in the past with no luck, so is there a widget, icon, something that I can install that will show on the screen when I received email, when using LP?
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I use executive assistant but it is a paid app. Worth it I believe though.
Just got a N6. Haven't done much except unlock bootloader, root, and transfer over most of my old apps and such. Quick question I can't find an easy answer to: Is there any way in the default launcher to forcibly resize widgets/stretch them out? A lot of the ones I'd normally use are 4x1 or 4x2, and it just looks terrible on the 5 column launcher.
In addition, is there any way to get a circles widget with similar functionality to the one from my old Droid Razr Maxx HD? I've found a few that have similar skins (most usefully One More Clock) but none that have the ability to flip the circles and see different cities, notifications, etc.
Thanks in advance!
Nova launcher and Zooper widgets would be my suggestion.
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Nova launcher and Zooper widgets would be my suggestion.
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Nova Launcher did fix 95% of my widget problems, so thank you very much for that. A little annoying to no longer be able to swipe left for google now, but I'll take it.
Zooper still isn't quite the same as the original motorola widget, nowhere near the functionality. I'll keep making do with One More Clock I suppose. It looks better now that I can resize the widget at least.
Zooper widget is 100% programmable you can download other templates and make it do anything you want to with whatever image you want to do it with. The widget can have 10 functions if you will if you wish. Check out the discussion group on Google Plus there are also forums dedicated to it here. There's some really impressive widgets out there
In Nova with swipe gestures you can fire up any program you wish not exactly the same as Google now but you can fire up the Google app.
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When I picked up my S6E, I really liked the stock Weather widget that's part of TouchWiz. I always find myself back using Apex Launcher and my S6E is no exception. I've installed it and set it up just the way I like it and the one disappointment I have is the stock weather widget isn't available
When accessing widgets from the app drawer it doesn't even show. Long pressing on the home screen, and selecting widgets that way shows the "weather" widget as a 4 x 2 widget but regardless of where I try to put it - even on a clean screen gives me a "not enough space to place . . . " error. It's really a 4 x 1 widget.
I know there are options like Zooper widgets that have addons with a similar look but none has access to the built in Accuweather app.
Anybody figure out how to use the stock weather widget with Apex or any other non-TouchWiz launcher?
This would be awesome! !
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When I picked up my S6E, I really liked the stock Weather widget that's part of TouchWiz. I always find myself back using Apex Launcher and my S6E is no exception. I've installed it and set it up just the way I like it and the one disappointment I have is the stock weather widget isn't available
When accessing widgets from the app drawer it doesn't even show. Long pressing on the home screen, and selecting widgets that way shows the "weather" widget as a 4 x 2 widget but regardless of where I try to put it - even on a clean screen gives me a "not enough space to place . . . " error. It's really a 4 x 1 widget.
I know there are options like Zooper widgets that have addons with a similar look but none has access to the built in Accuweather app.
Anybody figure out how to use the stock weather widget with Apex or any other non-TouchWiz launcher?
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I've tried to get it to work on both the GS3, GS4, GS4, Note 3, etc ... and nothing works...so definitely not a new problem! I was able to tear it apart enough on the GS3 to get it to show on Apex launcher ... but it wouldn't update, show location, or work when you clicked on it.
As to this point, I haven't found a widget I like more than the stock TW one. Beautiful Widgets used to have some nice looking ones, but honestly it's been about 3 years since I've even looked at the app so I wouldn't know what they've got these days.
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I've tried to get it to work on both the GS3, GS4, GS4, Note 3, etc ... and nothing works...so definitely not a new problem! I was able to tear it apart enough on the GS3 to get it to show on Apex launcher ... but it wouldn't update, show location, or work when you clicked on it.
As to this point, I haven't found a widget I like more than the stock TW one. Beautiful Widgets used to have some nice looking ones, but honestly it's been about 3 years since I've even looked at the app so I wouldn't know what they've got these days.
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Here's my solution, adapted from the discussion HERE. I use Zooper Widget Pro and the S6 Zooper Widgets Theme. It's by far the most spot-on widget compared to the actual stock version. In fact, from the stock clock and weather on the lock screen, you really can't tell the difference between it and the Zooper widget version.
1. Install Zooper Widget Pro
2. Install the S6 Zooper Widgets Theme
3. Install Desktop VisualizeR
4. Create a 4 x 1, 4 x 2, etc. Zooper Widget and select the S6 Widgets Theme. The widget option that looks exactly like the stock version is the one with a "45" in the title (the angle of the shadow)
Land it on the desktop one row below where you actually want to place it.
5, Long-press the home screen and select Applications - Clock ---> do this twice
6. Open Desktop VisualizeR and create a shortcut the following way: select a transparent image (attached below) as the shortcut Image. Click Select Action - Others - Activities - Weather - Weather. Title the shortcut "Weather". Select Apex Launcher as the target launcher ---> do this twice.
7. Now, long press on the 4 shortcut icons, one at a time and choose edit. Change the clock icons to the same transparent alpha you used for the Desktop VisualizeR shortcuts and delete the shortcut names. For the weather shortcuts, just edit and delete the names.
8. You're now left with for transparent shortcuts.
9. Long press the clock widget and select Resize. Using the nodes on the widget, move the top up and then the bottom.
You're left with the Zooper Widget with transparent shortcuts overlaid that open the clock and the stock weather app. There's a few shortcuts you can do like set the default click-on action in the widget settings to open the clock which will eliminate the need to add those two shortcuts but this way gives you a little more flexibility like assigning different actions to the hour and minute location.
Only very slight annoyance is that the widget uses open weather as the provider which sometimes slightly mismatches with accuweather re: location name and temperature.
Worked very well Jeff. Love it thanks.
I didn't like how small the pixel search bar was so I made one that was bigger to use with Action Launcher 3 you can use Nova as well it doesn't really matter I have them both installed on my phone and I'm at the Google Assistant function to Nova Launcher that's the only reason I keep it installed they're both great launchers I just prefer the features in actions right now for my own particular reasons not taking anything away from the developers of either app. This is my custom Zooper I made it completely from scratch.
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Thank you for sharing, this is nice and I agree with you preferring the Nova launcher.
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I didn't like how small the pixel search bar was so I made one that was bigger to use with Action Launcher 3 you can use Nova as well it doesn't really matter I have them both installed on my phone and I'm at the Google Assistant function to Nova Launcher that's the only reason I keep it installed they're both great launchers I just prefer the features in actions right now for my own particular reasons not taking anything away from the developers of either app. This is my custom Zooper I made it completely from scratch.
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Here one is on Nova and the other on AL3.
In order for Google assistant to work when you press the mic, you have to either use Nova or keep Nova installed or you can load the widget in to Zooper and remapp the mic to another action that invokes the assistant. Also for quick editing the widget you can touch the divider on the bubble or the rectangle under the bubble in order to enter editing mode in Zooper. Instead of opening and shutting.
Here's another one I made.
Longtime Nova and Action Launcher user here, but as I just picked up a P4XL on the $500 deal, I'm wanting to use the Pixel Launcher for the multitasking features. I'm running into an issue with both Audible and Apple Music where their 4x1 widgets are applying at 4x2. This is only happening in the Pixel Launcher, as they're 4x1 by default in other launchers. Anyone else seeing this and/or know a fix for it?