A 4x1 widget that makes sense

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A 4x1 widget that makes sense #1201

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

The 4x1 size widget is not functional.
Since the space is limited it does show the items' ("moving time", "total time" 
etc.) titles, but not the contents.
This makes no sense, the title itself doesn't give any useful information.

It is quite possible to contain all the info in a 4x1 widget.
Attached is a screenshot I editted (using paint, just for concept) with all of 
the 4x2 widget info inside 4x1 size.

Making this will be really helpful since a 4x2 is quite big (not much room left 
to other things on the phone's screen) and there's a lot of unused space on the 
4x2 widget.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by yon...@gmail.com on 10 Dec 2012 at 9:47

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[Editted Screenshot.png](https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-attachments/mytracks/issue-1201/comment-0/Editted Screenshot.png)

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Can you include a screenshot of the 4x1 widget on your phone. 

FYI. The 4x1 widget is designed to show only the two items, instead of four.

Original comment by jshih@google.com on 10 Dec 2012 at 9:56

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

ok, that's weird, some kind of bug then maybe.
Screenshot attached.
I'm using Galaxy S3 with android 4.0.4.

Original comment by yon...@gmail.com on 10 Dec 2012 at 10:01

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[4x1 widget Screenshot.png](https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-attachments/mytracks/issue-1201/comment-2/4x1 widget Screenshot.png)

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

ok, not really a bug.
It says in the release announcement:
The new app widget allows customizing the various fields and allows resizing 
for Android API level 16+.

I now check and saw that 16 is android 4.1.
So I guess I have to upgrade to JB to make it work.
Well thanks anyway.

By the way, why does the 4x1 widget has only 2 items?
As in my edited screenshot it can contain all of the 4 items (and I don't think 
it's too "crowdy")

Original comment by yon...@gmail.com on 10 Dec 2012 at 10:06

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

The app widget requires some padding. The strings like "moving time, km/h", 
etc. are longer for some languages. 2 items was the most we can safely fit in 
the 4x1 layout.

I am curious, what API level were you using that allowed you to resize in the 
attached image?

Thanks
Jimmy

Original comment by jshih@google.com on 10 Dec 2012 at 10:54

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

According to the table on
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/uses-sdk-element.html
Android 4.0.4 has API level 15.

Original comment by yon...@gmail.com on 10 Dec 2012 at 11:14