Genie Widget from Nexus One Dump

[pandroid]

I found this widget dump on the xda forums, i take no credit. its the news/weather widget from the nexus one. it works great on my droid. just rename the .zip to .apk and install

as you can see in the first screenshot it contains 3 different widgets. weather, news, and news & weather

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[silverx10]

Bueno. Will have to remember to check this out after work.

And also, for those of you (including myself up to this point) that had/have no idea how to install an .apk file, here's whatcha need to do:

How to Install Android Apps (apk) to the Droid - PPCGeeks

 

[Martin030908]

is this widget itself (as it appears on home screen) the one in the last image? (the one with the flip clock on it?)

 

[pandroid]

is this widget itself (as it appears on home screen) the one in the last image? (the one with the flip clock on it?)

the .apk includes 3 different widgets.

weather
news
news and weather

give me a minute and ill post some better screenshots

 

[Martin030908]

is this widget itself (as it appears on home screen) the one in the last image? (the one with the flip clock on it?)

the .apk includes 3 different widgets.

weather
news
news and weather

give me a minute and ill post some better screenshots

thanks! really appreciate it!

 

[pandroid]

@Martin030908

peep first post

 

[Martin030908]

exactly what i wanted to see. thanks again.
....cannabiswiki.... nice:icon_ rasta:

 

[pandroid]

exactly what i wanted to see. thanks again.
....cannabiswiki.... nice:icon_ rasta:

better than booze:beer2:

 

[sian0120]

let's give it a try..

seems nice...

 

[SSHGuru]

Thanks! I got all three running on my screen... Very easy to do and they look nice with good functionality.

 

[sian0120]

better than any out there so far...

happy...so far... you guys have to try this...

 

[sian0120]

can't have two diif. widget for diff. location

hope someone can update this..

 

[SSHGuru]

Acutally all you need is the large weather one. It also has news built into it once you tap it.

The news and news and weather ones have news that rotates but who is going to stare at the droid watching headlines go by when you can tap the big weather widget and scroll over all categories.

Very nice overall.

One issue is that when you click on a story it brings dolphin up but you cant increase the size of the type... I don't know why - maybe because it's hitting a mobile internet site rather than a webpage.

The weather part is cool, it has the whole week and you tap on a day and it has a cool looking chart you can scroll and see what the weather will be by the minute.

We should see if we can get more stuff from the Nexus!

 

[JTAC]

Stupid question. Where do I rename it? It keeps going back to .zip

 

[silverx10]

After you've saved the file, go to the folder you saved it to (or open My Computer if you saved it to the desktop). Click Tools » Folder Options..., click the View tab, and then uncheck the box "Hide extensions for known file types". Click OK, go back to your .zip file, and change the extension to .apk.

Edit: Yep, definitely neat. Goodbye, (not-so) Beautiful (anymore) Widgets, hello, Genie.