Star Trek Clock Widget V2.0.0

The Star Trek Clock Widget is a digital clock displaying the current time in a configurable Star Trek language and as stardate. You can choose from 20 different languages, 20 different background themes and from 5 different widget sizes. The background theme, text color and time format can be changed as well.

Tweet Widget V3.0.0

The Tweet Widget contains two amazing home screen widgets; the Tweet Widget and the Trends Widget!

The Android Tweet Widget (4x2) displays Twitter tweets. The widget contains buttons for your Timeline, your Mentions, your Favorites, Search, the current Trends and to Tweet. Via the Tweet button you can tweet your own tweets. Via the Favorites button you can see your favorites. Via the Mentions button you can see your Mentions. Via the Timeline button you can see your own timeline. Via the Trend button, you can see a list with the current Trends as a HeatMap. The red color means the hottest current trend. Tap on one of the trends to see tweets about this subject. With the arrow buttons you can scroll the buttons. You can tap on the tweet text to open it, see more details, follow the tweeter, mark it as a favorite, reply or retweet. Finally, integration with your favorite Twitter client is supported.

The Twitter based home screen Trends Widget (4x2) displays the global or local trending topics. Tap on the widget to open the heatmap.

Battery Widget V3.0.0

The Android Battery Widget brings real time graphical visualization of your battery to your phone. On your home screen you will see a circle indication the battery level. The color of the widget shifts gracefully from green (100%) to yellow (50%) and finally turns red (0%). Tap on the widget to see the three (Level, Temperature and Voltage) real time updated graphs on the first screen. Swipe to the second screen and you will see the CPU- and Memory usage. You can choose between a small widget (1x1), a medium widget (2x1)  or a large widget (2x2).

The Toast class is used to display a simple and not to big notifications to the user. The default layout is only capable of displaying text. This article will describe how you can alter the default layout into a layout with an image. The end result will be a Toast looking like this:

The standard set of preferences does not provide a Gallery preference. This article describes how you can implement a Gallery preference. We do this by making use of a DialogPreference with a custom layout. The layout is done with xml and we also add some custom xml attributes for more control. A sample application is provided to show the working.

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SampleGalleryDialogPreference.zip

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The standard android ListPreference does not provide an easy way to display an image for each item if the list. This article describes how you can implement this. The aim is to add the images the same way as the text values are added.

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SampleImageListPreference.zip

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