For some reason the Google At a Glance Widget is bounded to a 5x2 space when the home page grid is set to 5x6 layout. In 5x5 layout the widget stays at 5x1.
Does anyone know why this is happening or a way to force the widget into a 5x1 space while on the 5x6 grid layout? The normal long press and drag to resize doesn't work. It just bounces back. I've also tried loading the widget while on 5x5 and then changing to 5x6, but then it bounces right back to 5x2 spacing.
For anyone else who finds this and has the same problem, I installed "Another Widget" from the playstore. It replicates the "At a Glance" widget but with much more customization available.
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I am trying to use the Lunar Mclock theme and the Beautiful Widgets weather widget together. When I drag the clock over the weather widget to resize it the weather widget stays ontop of the clock for a while but after turning on and off the phone a couple of times it goes behind the overlapping clock so it is partially hidden even though the clock is somewhat transparent. Because of this can't tap the weather widget only the clock widget. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong? I hope the makes sense. Thanks
Never mind I figured it out with the help of this link.
http://android.modaco.com/topic/331042-how-to-overlap-widgets-in-launcher-pro-in-a-good-way/
I just needed to add the widgets in a different order.
What size grid are you guys using that are using Nova or Apex? I tried running 9x7 which is what it seems like it should be at 160 dpi... but then the icon labels don't show up. So I moved it back down to 9x6 and the icon labels show, but now my Asus weather widget is cut off on the bottom. I feel like I've tried every combination, but no matter what I try I can't get Nova to show both the icon labels and not cut off my weather widget.
Trebuchet works, but the grid seems a little small on that TBH, and I like the card stack animation on Nova.
So I'm redoing my home screen, and I want to have a few text icons that take me directly to specific home screens. Apex launcher has action shortcuts for this, but they are only 1x1. I cannot use widgets to get these actions... I have to use shortcuts. I have done what I want with 1x1 shortcuts, but they are just too small for my taste. I really want 2x1 shortcuts. I have not been able to figure out how to make them with either Simple Text or Desktop Visualizer.
Any suggestions?
I have exactly the same question. Did you ever find a solution?
edit: I found a clunky work-around by taking advantage of the fact that Apex lets you overlap widgets. I made a totally hidden apex action shortcut by removing the shortcut text and using a transparent icon that I made with Simple Text (careful with these, because if you forget where they are on your homescreen they're hard to find!). Then I put a 2x1 Simple Text widget (that does nothing) over the top. The problem of course is that the shortcut only works if you press the 1x1 area where the apex action shortcut is!
I created a Battery/Weather/Time/Date widget in UCCW for my Nexus 7. When I go back to my home screen the widget is perfectly centred albeit a tad small. When I resize it, however, it moves to the left of the screen and I am unable to move it to the right due to the resizing box being at it's limit. I'm not sure if this is something to do with the grid size (which I don't fully understand yet) that Nova Launcher is set at (currently 6x6) or something I did in UCCW.
This is the first thing I have made in UCCW and have just started learning about customization so any help would be much appreciated.
Cheers.
Si
I have a 1x3 space on my home screen that could be filled with app shortcuts that can be scrolled vertically so I can add more than 3 shortcuts in that space. Note that I'm not looking for a folder implementation where clicking it opens a drawer. Anyone know of any such widgets?
Launchy might be what you're looking for
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ruslanspivak.launchy