Weather and News Info Widget
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About Weather and News Info Widget
The main purpose of this widget is to gather important and accurate information about battery state and weather. Additionally you can setup favorite news feeds, have visual warnings about incoming Calendar events and have information about current time zone in comparison to your home zone.
Information presented for each function:
Battery:
- Precise visual information of the charge level
- Charging/discharging and using AC or USB
- Temperature
Weather:
- Visual presentation of the current weather state
- Textual description of the current state
- Humidity
- Wind speed
Calendar:
- Current month and date
- Indication of the state of coming events(green - first event is due in the next 24 hours, yellow – an event is due in next 8 hours and read – an event starts in 2 hours or less.
News:
- Colored letters rss signify that news where updated since last reading
Tapping on the center panel will start Activity containing three tabs:
1. First (and default) tab is weather. As you can see from the image to the left it contains the following elements:
- Location weather data is gathered for
- Panel with current conditions and
- Links to five days weather forecast
Default is current data, to see panel with forecast for any of five given days just tap on its icon. To return to current conditions tap on the detailed data panel.
Second is News feeds:
It contains the list of all news from all feeds combined. If you want to see just one particular feed tap on the select button on the top of the list and choose the desired feed.
Last is Calendar. In this version Calendar tab shows:
- In the upper part of the tab - current day, date and year, week number and leap year status.
- List of incoming events.
While in this activity pressing on the Menu button on your android phone will pop the menu with two menu items:
- Settings: Described in detail bellow.
- Refresh:
1. Refresh menu item starts update for news feeds and weather. After you tap it a progress dialog will pop up showing the state of the update. If you press the “Back” button on your phone progress dialog will disappear, but update will continue in the background. When running in background there is no notification when finished, it’ll refresh news and weather data instantly.
2. Settings: Settings is another Activity containing four tabs as shown on the image above:
General tab - handles settings for:
- Home time zone – set your home time zone. Application will offer the time zone set for the device.
- News refresh interval - data will be updated automatically in chosen intervals or manually only when refresh menu item is chosen.
- Weather refresh interval - data will be updated automatically in chosen intervals or manually only when refresh menu item is chosen.
- The last item on the list is the information about last and next update occurrence.
Weather tab - handles settings for:
- Automatically determine location - when checked the program will try to determine your current location using available methods (network and/or gps data).
- Select location - if automatically determine location is checked here you will see the name of the selected location. Otherwise, you can tap on it and search for your location.
- Use metric system - if checked weather data will be presented using metric units of measure. Otherwise imperial units will be used.
News tab - lets you manage news feeds:
- Use cached data first - opens cached texts of the news items. For some feeds that's only a sentence or two, but for some it is the whole article, by using the cache you avoid downloading it twice. It is especially useful during poor data connection conditions.
- Below the cache setting is the feed management where you can add and remove feeds. You can add localized Google feeds or search for new feeds by term you are interested in or by URL of the feed you would like to follow.
Calendar tab allows you to choose which calendar(s) you want Fusion Info widget to use.
Information presented for each function:
Battery:
- Precise visual information of the charge level
- Charging/discharging and using AC or USB
- Temperature
Weather:
- Visual presentation of the current weather state
- Textual description of the current state
- Humidity
- Wind speed
Calendar:
- Current month and date
- Indication of the state of coming events(green - first event is due in the next 24 hours, yellow – an event is due in next 8 hours and read – an event starts in 2 hours or less.
News:
- Colored letters rss signify that news where updated since last reading
Tapping on the center panel will start Activity containing three tabs:
1. First (and default) tab is weather. As you can see from the image to the left it contains the following elements:
- Location weather data is gathered for
- Panel with current conditions and
- Links to five days weather forecast
Default is current data, to see panel with forecast for any of five given days just tap on its icon. To return to current conditions tap on the detailed data panel.
Second is News feeds:
It contains the list of all news from all feeds combined. If you want to see just one particular feed tap on the select button on the top of the list and choose the desired feed.
Last is Calendar. In this version Calendar tab shows:
- In the upper part of the tab - current day, date and year, week number and leap year status.
- List of incoming events.
While in this activity pressing on the Menu button on your android phone will pop the menu with two menu items:
- Settings: Described in detail bellow.
- Refresh:
1. Refresh menu item starts update for news feeds and weather. After you tap it a progress dialog will pop up showing the state of the update. If you press the “Back” button on your phone progress dialog will disappear, but update will continue in the background. When running in background there is no notification when finished, it’ll refresh news and weather data instantly.
2. Settings: Settings is another Activity containing four tabs as shown on the image above:
General tab - handles settings for:
- Home time zone – set your home time zone. Application will offer the time zone set for the device.
- News refresh interval - data will be updated automatically in chosen intervals or manually only when refresh menu item is chosen.
- Weather refresh interval - data will be updated automatically in chosen intervals or manually only when refresh menu item is chosen.
- The last item on the list is the information about last and next update occurrence.
Weather tab - handles settings for:
- Automatically determine location - when checked the program will try to determine your current location using available methods (network and/or gps data).
- Select location - if automatically determine location is checked here you will see the name of the selected location. Otherwise, you can tap on it and search for your location.
- Use metric system - if checked weather data will be presented using metric units of measure. Otherwise imperial units will be used.
News tab - lets you manage news feeds:
- Use cached data first - opens cached texts of the news items. For some feeds that's only a sentence or two, but for some it is the whole article, by using the cache you avoid downloading it twice. It is especially useful during poor data connection conditions.
- Below the cache setting is the feed management where you can add and remove feeds. You can add localized Google feeds or search for new feeds by term you are interested in or by URL of the feed you would like to follow.
Calendar tab allows you to choose which calendar(s) you want Fusion Info widget to use.
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App History & Updates
What's Changed
Version 1.6.5:
If updating please start the application to finish upgrade.
Changes in this version:
- User requests:
1. Choice between temperature and current conditions in notification bar. Notification
info in the notification list is the same.
2. Widgets now have adjustable transparency and color.
- Additional widgets.
- Complete graphical overhaul.
- Main application supports themes. We offer 4 in this release. More to follow.
- Moon phases.
- Bug fixes.
Version 1.6.5:
If updating please start the application to finish upgrade.
Changes in this version:
- User requests:
1. Choice between temperature and current conditions in notification bar. Notification
info in the notification list is the same.
2. Widgets now have adjustable transparency and color.
- Additional widgets.
- Complete graphical overhaul.
- Main application supports themes. We offer 4 in this release. More to follow.
- Moon phases.
- Bug fixes.
More downloads Weather and News Info Widget reached 100 000 - 500 000 downloads
Version update Weather and News Info Widget was updated to version 1.6.5
More downloads Weather and News Info Widget reached 50 000 - 100 000 downloads
Version update Weather and News Info Widget was updated to version 1.5.8
What are users saying about Weather and News Info Widget
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I like this app's ability to find news sources for pretty much any topic but I was looking for an app that would display news in a widget and the widget is not available to me.
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No Google news India English edition, the widget shows 1 article headline randomly?!
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Working perfectly the weather in samsung galaxy s7 edge I very impressed nice job
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Will not show anything of the News stuff
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Big pain to use
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Hasn't worked for me in months...
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Good
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After evaluating this "app/widget" and doing a "test run" I'm uninstalling. One thing I wasn't thrilled about, was the temperature always being visible in the "taskbar" - just a pretty "sun" during the day unless I swipe down. Having "metric" on by default was slightly annoying. Only one "newsfeed" source was disheartening, i.e. Fox News, CNN, etc. - other than that, not complaints; will keep an eye on for future releases. Good job guys, just not for me "atm"!
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Weak
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Surprisingly, Better than I thought it would be. Gives you almost accurate Weather Forecast, Allows U to look up News RSS of ur preference as well as a Calendar option. It looks Good, user friendly and I Definitely Recommend This App. Great Job guys!
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There's a clock with the WRONG time. It constantly says 10:08 regardless of the time. I realize it's meant as an icon not a clock but it's a clock that's wrong 23 hours 58 minutes each day. Absolutely useless.
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Weather, bug: The humidity always shows 100% even when it is clearly not so. News, improvement: please add scrollable tabs for individual feeds and remove the current feed display selector, it is very user unfriendly. Thanks!
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Would be so sweet if we could change widget colors to match our wallpapers. Other than this, fantastic widget, especially news feature. UPDATE from 4 to 5 stars: THANK YOU for listening! Love the color and transparency options!!!
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Much improvments, i love it
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Like it
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Pretty widget but needs updating for larger phone screens.Doesn't fit my 5" screen so it looks lopsided.
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Why won't it show what is on the calendar that I added. It shows holidays and a birthday that is a week away not the anniversary that is today? It shows that Halloween is October 30. What is wrong with this!!!
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All in one app with customisations.
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"121014...ík...briefly versatile, and precise...kfr...thanks..."
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Helpfull
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Big pain to use
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Exactly wot i ws looking for. It looks neat n wrks well
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Good
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Vadiya
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Would be so sweet if we could change widget colors to match our wallpapers. Other than this, fantastic widget, especially news feature. UPDATE from 4 to 5 stars: THANK YOU for listening! Love the color and transparency options!!!
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OK Yes, finally something usefull
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The sun is shining at 9:54 p.m.!!!!!!! My OCD is kicking in so please tell me how 2 fix it??
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Nich thim and sistem
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After evaluating this "app/widget" and doing a "test run" I'm uninstalling. One thing I wasn't thrilled about, was the temperature always being visible in the "taskbar" - just a pretty "sun" during the day unless I swipe down. Having "metric" on by default was slightly annoying. Only one "newsfeed" source was disheartening, i.e. Fox News, CNN, etc. - other than that, not complaints; will keep an eye on for future releases. Good job guys, just not for me "atm"!
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This app has really huge potential if the weather is Animated and can give local news per country and international
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Superbly presents the big 4
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Really....23° for the high on July 6th in North Carolina.??? I don't think so.
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After installing Cm11 MIXED ROM Kk 4.4.2 I lost my news and weather app. Yes, I backed it up. Can I restore just that app? Anyways. This app, fusion is much better. Thanks
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I love this clock widget,the colors and layout styles are the best I've ever seen. If u install this u won't regret it
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Mausam & news batata hai.
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Good layout
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Good
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I like having everything in one place. and I picked the news I want to hear.
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After installing Cm11 MIXED ROM Kk 4.4.2 I lost my news and weather app. Yes, I backed it up. Can I restore just that app? Anyways. This app, fusion is much better. Thanks
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Perfect Widget