World clock & weather widget for Android

World clock & weather widget for Android has been released today on the Android Market. This widget provides local time & weather information for selected locations worldwide. It comes in two sizes, 4x1 and 4x2 widget. The 4x1 widget displays 2 locations and the 4x2 displays 4 locations.

The widget supports an unlimited number of locations. Following is a list of the main features:

- 7 different skins to chose from (more skins coming in the future)
- 4 weather icon skins
- Works in portrait or landscape mode
- 12 or 24 hour clock with date
- Detailed weather forecast display including the following:
    - Local time
    - Sunrise and sunset time for current location
    - Humidity and wind conditions
    - Current condition, temperature and low and high temperatures
    - Current condition icon
    - Last weather update time
    - 4 day weather forecast
- Unlimited number of locations; enter all your favorite locations and easily keep track of the current time and weather conditions

The widget can be fully customized with the following options:

- Chose the widget and weather icon skins
- Chose the text color for the time, am/pm indication, date, location, current weather condition and current temperature
- Display 12 or 24 hour time with optional AM/PM indicator (if 12 hour format)
- Beep every hour (optional)
- Select the date display format
- Optionally show or hide specific elements of the widget (weather icon, date)
- Display temperature values in Celsius or Fahrenheit
- Select automatic weather refresh period (15 minutes, 30 minutes, 1, 2, 3, 4 or 6 hours)
- Enter your favorite world locations to watch local times, current weather conditions and weather forecast information
- Update weather on WiFi and/or GPRS
- Chose whether you want to update while roaming or not
- Play notification sounds on location and weather changes and updates
- Select alternate weather forecast service (MSN) - default is Google

Sense Flip clock & weather released

A new clock & weather forecast widget is available on the android market. This widget flips, similar to the HTC sense flip clock and it supports a different skins. Like the 3D flip clock & world weather widget, it supports automatic location detection, weather forecast for multiple locations and much more. A detailed list of the features follows:


- Flip animation
- 9 skins to chose from
- 4 weather icon skins
- Portrait or landscape mode
- 12 or 24 hour clock with date
- Display the current week number
- Current location (city, country) taken automatically from cell/wifi or GPS, or specified by the user
- Weather conditions for current location (condition and temperature, low and high temperatures and weather icon)
- Detailed weather forecast display including the following:
- Local time
- Sunrise and sunset time for current location
- Humidity and wind conditions
- Current condition, temperature and low and high temperatures
- Current condition icon
- Last weather update time
- 4 day weather forecast
- World weather: Chose to display weather information for any number of different locations worldwide. Just select your favorite locations and you will immediately have updated weather and time information.
- Refresh location or weather by tapping on the widget
- Launch up to four different applications by tapping different widget hotspots (everything is user defined)
The widget can be fully customized with the following options:
- Chose the widget and weather icon skins
- Chose the text color for the am/pm indicator, date, location, current weather condition, current temperature and hi/lo temperatures
- Display 12 or 24 hour time with optional AM/PM indicator (if 12 hour format)
- Beep every hour (optional)
- Select the date display format
- Display a manually selected location's time instead of phone's time
- Use current location to display weather info or specify any location you want
- Get location updates from the network (cell/WiFi) or your GPS
- Display temperature values in Celsius or Fahrenheit
- Optionally display the next alarm
- Select automatic weather refresh period (15 minutes, 30 minutes, 1, 2, 3, 4 or 6 hours)
- Enter your favorite world locations to watch local times (including sunset and sunrise), current weather conditions and weather forecast information
- Update weather on WiFi and/or GPRS
- Chose whether you want to update while roaming or not
- Play notification sounds on location and weather changes and updates
- Select what application to launch when tapping the hours
- Launch more applications by tapping the weekday or month
- Optionally display the battery level
- Specify how to receive location updates (how often and for how much distance)
- Select alternate weather forecast service

Watch a demo of the widget on YouTube. Sense clock & weather

As always, comments and requests are welcome.

Do you like the widget? Rate it and leave a comment on the Android Market.

Frequently asked questions for the 3D Flip clock & weather widget

Q: How do I install the widget?
A: Please refer to the widget's help file. Go to the applications drawer and tap the widget icon.
There are step by step instructions as well as a video on YouTube that explains how to install a widget on your home screen. Here is the link to the video:  3D Flip clock & weather

Q: I have installed the widget on my tablet, it shows in the application drawer but I cannot find it in the widgets listA: Reboot your tablet and check in the widgets list again.

Q: When I tap the hour, the alarm application does not open
A: You have to specify the alarm application. To specify the alarm application do the following:

• Go to the preferences (tap the minutes)
• Tap Advanced settings
• Deselect Default hour action
• Tap on the Select hour click action and wait for the application list to load
• Find your alarm application from the list and select it
• Go back to your home screen and test it by tapping on the hour; it should now open your phone's alarm application

Q: What is the minimum refresh distance setting?
A: It tells the gps system to notify the program when the distance from the last known location changes by more than that amount.  For example, if set to 5 and you are at location A, when you move 5 kilometers away from position A the program will be notified for a location change.

Q: I followed the instructions to add the widget on my Acer Tablet but it doesn't work.
A: To add a widget on an Acer tablet, perform the following::

• Tap the + symbol in the upper right corner of the screen or press and hold your finger on an empty area of the screen for a few seconds.
• Select the item you wish to add and drag it to the desired screen you wish it to display on.
• Tap the Home button when done.

   
Q: How do I add the widget on my Motorolla Xoom tablet?
A: To add/remove widgets on a Motorolla Xoom tablet follow the directions below:

• Tap + in the top right hand side of the screen to open the 3D customisation screen
• at the bottom of the screen, you'll see a list of widgets. At the top, there's your five homescreens.
• To add a widget, drage it from the bottom of the screen onto the screen you want to customise.
• To remove widgets, select one of the homescreens and press and hold the widget and you'll feel a vibration. You can now delete the icon by dragging it to the trash at the top of the screen.
• To move a widget onto another screen, press and hold until you feel the vibration and drag the icon to another homescreen

Q: The weather is not updating. It is noon and it shows a full moon
A; Your phone is probably not connected to the Internet. When connected to the Internet, the weather will update on the next minute change (if the weather refresh period has elapsed). To see when the weather was last updated, go to the weather forecast (tap the weather icon) and look at the Last updated information. To manually refresh the weather tap the big weather icon.

Q: If I select the weather on the widget it first shows the original weather display and then when I scroll to the next screen over it shows the weather of the location I want
A: You have probably specified an additional weather location as your current location and the current location is wrong. Try to reset the widget following the steps below:

• Go to the home screen
• Tap the menu button
• Tap Settings
• Tap Applications
• Tap Manage Applications
• Location the widget in the list and tap it
• Tap Clear data and then OK

Go back to the home screen, remove and add the widget again. Wait for a few seconds until the widget finds your location and refreshes the weather.

More features added in 3d flip clock & weather widget

Over the last 30 days the 3d flip clock & weather widget has been enhanced with lots of new features. Some of the most important ones are the following:

• Added alternate weather forecast server option under Weather & location settings
• Optionally display the location timezone in the detailed weather forecast page
• Added option (under Advanced settings) for adjusting the battery position (if visible)
• Added option (under Time & Date settings) for adjusting the widget date format
• Scroll long location names in weather forecast page
• Display current wallpaper as background when choosing skin
• Added option for displaying location information (press menu on weather forecast page, then tap My location)
• More optimizations (please report any problems)
• Added menu in forecast page (use it to jump to widget preferences)
• Added option to display location details in forecast page menu (use this to see full location details as well as GPS position)
• Added option to specify application to launch when minutes are tapped (Settings, Advanced)
• If alternate application is specified when the minutes are tapped, tap anywhere on the widget to bring up the preferences
• Handle empty GPS based weather data (please report if there are still issues)
• Fixed the time display on high resolution displays

Furthermore, a lot of bugs have been fixed (especially problems with weather updates not working for specific locations).

Big thanks to all users that send bug reports, suggestions and requested new features.

Support for external theme packs added in 3D flip clock & weather widget

The latest version of the widget supports external theme packs. External theme packs may contain additional skins, images, layouts etc. They can be accessed by going to the widget settings screen, Appearance settings, Additional skins. Available theme packs will be listed there, together with an indication of weather they are installed or not. If a theme pack is not installed, you can tap it to visit the Android Market and download it. If it is installed, tap it to activate it or select one of the included skins.

Memory usage optimization for the 3D Flip Clock & World Weather Widget

The latest update of the 3D Flip Clock & World Weather Widget for Android devices includes fixes, additions and changes for more efficient memory management. Some of the most important updates are the following:

• Memory usage optimizations. The widget is now faster and leaner
•  Fixed timezone bug in location based time display
• Tap location name to request location update
• Fixed bug in day/night calculation
• Added option to launch two more applications by tapping the weekday and/or month. To set the applications to be launched go to preferences, select 'Advanced settings' and tap the 'Select weekday action' and/or 'Select month action'
• Fixed bug in 24 hour time display

Coming soon!

The next version of the widget will support external skins/themes packages. You will be able to customize the look of the widget even more by downloading additional skins.

Thanks to all the users who contributed to the new version by sending in suggestions, bug reports and requests. As always, any comments or requests are welcome.

More options in 3D Flip &Clock & World Weather widget

After several requests from users of the widget I have included new skins and added the possibility to customize the widget even more. You can now optionally hide/display the following parts of the widget:

• Background panel
• Date panel
• Background flaps
• Flap knobs (left, middle and right knobs)
• Hi/Lo temperature display

To access these settings tap the minutes, tap Appearance settings and then Advanced options. From there you can select what to display (by default everything is visible).

Another addition is that in the color picker dialog there is now a new color button on the lower right part of the box. This button is set to the last color selected. Tapping it will set the current color to the last color selected. This is useful if you want to set custom colors for two or more components on the widget. For example, if you want to set the location and weather condition to a light blue color, do the following:

• Go to settings, Appearance settings
• Un-check the Use default colors checkbox (if selected)
• Tap the location color
• Select the color you like and tap the OK button
• Tap the Weather condition color
• Tap the right button (it should be set to the color you selected previously) and then tap the OK button

 Let me know if you have any more requests or suggestions!