Animated Widget
Known issues
Why you don't fix the bug XXX? Most probably we can't reproduce it. There are a lot of different devices and some bugs are hardware dependend. If you need help with bug fixing, send us email. We will give you special version of application, that generates rich log. Such log will help us to understand and fix the problem.
No answer from developers. Android Market doesn't allow developers to answer on user requests. If you need help, send us email.
Moving on SD card item is disabled for AWidget because Android doesn't allow to move on SD card any widgets.
Support of dual sims. Android doesn't support dual sims officially. So, there is no possibility to implement any functionality for dual sims in AWidget.
Shortcuts move!. You can disable moving. Click on widget, press button "..." (or hardware button "Menu"), select "Settings", uncheck "Moving shortcuts"
Widget opens too slow. You can disable animation - then widget will open much faster. Click on widget, press button "..." (or hardware button "Menu"), select "Settings", set "Animation speed" to "no animation".
What's new
1.5.3 (14 january 2012)
- + Animated Widget page was created on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Animated-Widget-Contact-Launcher/165514756890114,
- + New possibility to localize Animated Widget on any language. To make translation use project page at http://crowdin.net/project/animated-widget
- + New support system based on Get Satisfaction service.
- + Russian localization is added.
- + New configuration parameter "Language" to select interface language.
- - Selection of custom images didn't work on Android 4.0. Fixed.
- - Fixed bug with disappearing subcontacts in group contact on some devices.
- - Fixed problem with shift widget position when it is being clicked Android 3.X/4.X.
- * Fixed problem with SMS group action. It didn't work on some devices because different
manufactures use different spliiters in list of phones that is sent to SMS application.
I.e. HTC uses ';', Samsung - ','. New version allows user to explicitly choose what splitter
should be used.
- - Bugfixing and minor improvements.
1.5.2 (2 january 2012)
- - Restored possibility to edit widget names. It was broken in 1.5.1
- - Group contact didn't work on Android 4.0
- - Bugfixing
1.5.1 (26 december 2011)
- + New type of widgets - "Bookmarks launcher".
- + New possibility to display widget titles and shortcut labels with semitransparent background. New application settings parameter: "Display labels with background".
- - Fixed bug that leads to group contacts crash on some devices.
- * Backup/resore dialogs was made more informative.
- + Possibility to set custom file names for backups.
- + Possibility to change backup folder in Application Settings, see parameter "Folder to store backups".
- - Fixed problem with selection custom images on some devices
1.5.0 (30 november 2011), updated (1 december 2011)
- + New action "Launch application" in single contact. It can be useful if the application is contact depended.
- + New action "Call using Skype Out" in single contact.
- + Possibility to crop custom images loaded from the gallery.
- + Possibility to delete custom images. Use long tap on image.
- + Possibility to send emails and SMS to all subcontacts of group contact.
To do it: open group contact, click "more" button (or press Menu hardware button),
select "Group action". You will see list of possible group actions (SMS, email) with count of possible addresses for each action.
- + New flag "Show shortcut titles below images" in group widget properties.
This is a way to show subcontact name instead of subcontact phone number.
It works for subcontacts with images only.
- + New: Long tap on some single contact shortcuts (call, sms, email, web) opens choosing application dialog always.
Short tap uses default application and opens dialog if and only if default application is not specified.
(f.e. it's useful to send sms occasionally through Viber, Whatsapp or another application instead cell phone).
- - Fixed the problem with applications installed on SD card.
The widget reads list of installed applications during widget start.
Applications on SD card can be unavailable at this moment (especially if widget was started immediattelly after phone restart).
As result, when you tried to execute such application, you got message "Application was removed. Would you like to edit widget properties now".
New version re-reads list of application at the moment of execution, so possibility of appearing such message is significantly reduced.
- - Fixed some bugs which lead to crash during opening of group contact on some devices.
- - Fixed some bugs which lead to incorrect contact selection during creation of new widget on some devices.
- * Minor changes and bugfixing.
1.4.5 (19 september 2011)
- + Group contact: Long click on opened subcontact in group contact opens subcontact shortcuts.
- + Group contact: New option in settings "Togle tap and long tap on subcontacts". If you select it, then you will be able to open subcontacts in group contact using single tap instead of long tap. This option is turned off by default.
- - Performance of widget properties saving was significantly improved.
- * Group contact: Combo icons generation alghorithm was changed. Now, contacts with images have higher priority during generation then contacts without images.
- * "Known issues" topic was added at the top of this page.
- * Launcher: recently installed/updated applications are marked by yellow color in the list of applications
- + All widgets: there is new option "Show widget title below image" in widget properties. Check it to display widget title below widget image.
- - Bug: restore didn't work on Droid (and, probably, on some other devices)
- - Bugfixing
1.4.4 (12 august 2011)
- + Possibility to set custom image to subcontacts in group contact.
- + Possibility to select image for single contact (and for subcontact in group contact) from facebook. Open single contact widget properties, click on widget icon and click on button "Faceboook..."
- - Backup didn't work on some devices.
- - Bugfixing
1.4.3 (28 jule 2011)
- + New feature: show text over shortcuts (phone numbers, application titles, etc). It's necessary to select "Show shortcuts labels" in widget properties to turn this feature on. By default this feature is turned off.
- + New possibility to set custom icons to any widget (exception: subcontacts in group contact). Open widget properties and click on widget icon to select custom image.
- * Checkbox "Hide photo" in single contact properties was removed. To hide photo open widget properties, click on widget icon and select first (empty) icon.
- - Layout of shortcuts in Table was made more optimal in both landscape and portrait orientations.
- - Size of text in group contact was too small on some devices. Fixed.
- * Text "Buy Pro" appears and disappears with fading.
- * Default skin was changed from CircleWhite on RoundWhiteSquare.
- - Some bugs in group contact were fixed. FC problem should be solved.
- - Effect "moving shortcuts" was modified: shortcuts move 2 seconds only and then stop. They start to move again after device shaking.
- - Bugfixing
1.4.2 (7 jule 2011)
- + New visual effect: moving shortcuts. Device shaking increases amplitude of shortcuts.
- * New category in settings: visual effects
- * Configuration parameter "Enable G-Senser effects" was renamed to "Hide overlays on shaking"
- ! New restriction for free version: max count of widgets is limited.
- + New possibility to change size of shortcuts. You can set default size for all widgets (in app settings) and also set size for shortcuts of specified widget (in widget properties).
- - Some bugs were fixed.
1.4.1 (22 june 2011)
- ! Apsalar statistics is implemented.
- + Filter by group is implemented in contact(s) selector.
- + Filter by accounts is implemented in contact(s) selector.
- * Name of selected group is used as default name for newly created group contact widget.
- - Performance of group contact animation is improved
- + New G-Senser effect for group contact widget: if you shake device then overlays (small action icons) will disappear for short time.
- + New configuration parameter "Enable G-Senser effects".
1.4.0 (28 may 2011)
- + New type of widgets - group contact.
- + Possibility to backup all or selected widgets to file
- + Possibility to restore widget from backup file
- + New possibility to create contact widget using alternative contact selector is introduced. New contact selector will help to work around the problem with creation of contact-widget on some devices (in particular, with custom firmwire). If you can't create contact widget (you select contact, but widget is not created), try to use alternative contact selector.
- ! Pro version works as unlocker for free version. It's not necessary anymore to recreate widgets after buying pro version.
- - It wasn't possible to add different application of same creator to single launcher widget (i.e. several different Angry Birds applications). Fixed.
- * Now it's possible to select default email application for sending emails.
- + Overlays in group contacts (action icons - sms, call, etc - are displayed over buttons).
- + New configuration parameter: "Group animation". It sets default animation kind for group contact.
- + New configuration parameter: "Enable overlays in group contact".
- ! Widgets are updated in separate thread to avoid possibility of "going blank and becoming unresponsive after restart"
- * Skype action is not add by default in single contact widget because currently Skype actions are useless - Skype application doesn't support calls from external applications.
- - Single contact widget didn't update phone after changing phone in contact properties. It continued to use old phone even if you open and save widget properties. Fixed. Now, widget uses new phone after opening and saveing widget properties
- - Moving actions in contact widget actions led to change of double tap action. Fixed.
1.3.1 (16 march 2011)
- * Now it's possible to select email application when you click on "email" in contact widget.
- + New possibility to select animation type and animation speed for each widget individually. You can select default type of animation and default animation speed in application settings as previously.
- + New animation type - Table (compact). There are 5 buttons per row, buttons have smaller size and looks like in Circle-animation.
- + New skin "Round White Square" with square shortcuts.
- * Now it's possible to view "what's new" in quick start window. You can also view "what's new" by
opening any widget, pressing Menu button and selecting command "what's new".
- - Doubletap for email action didn't work. Fixed.
- - When you create new contact widget, doubletap action should be automatically assigned on first phone call. It was broken in 1.3. Fixed.
- ! Now widgets are updated in background service. Possibility of AWR-error on busy devices is reduced.
- - Opened table widget didn't close on second click if the widget contained too much buttons and some of them were out of screen.
- - Fixed some problems with button positions in horizontal screen orientation.
- ! Widget worked incorrectly with contacts of some types, i.e. contacts stored on SIM card.
After device restart, the application couldn't find phone numbers for such contacts and
shown messages like that: "Application 'Call' was removed. Would you like to edit widget properties?".
Fixed. But it's necessary to open and re-save properties of such widgets.
- + Now, by default, launcher displays button "More.." beside icons of applications.
This button equals to "Menu" button on device and opens option menu.
To hide it use flag "Hide button More.." in widget properties.
- - Doubletap in launcher didn't work.
- - Some bugs that led to crashes in rare cases were fixed.
1.3 (9 march 2011)
- + New widget type - "Launcher of applications".
- + Possibility to select launcher combo-icon. Try to click on launcher icon in widget properties window.
- + Drag&drop is implemented in widget properties window. So, now it's possible to change order of buttons in easy way.
- + New animation type - Table. There are 4 buttons per row, buttons has same size as widget. You can select default animation type for launcher and contact widget in application settings.
- + New possibility to cache images on SD card to improve performance. It's turned on by default and can be turned off in application settings.
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