Monday, August 29, 2011

A couple of words on Switch Pro widget

Switch Pro is a widget that allows you to put multiple settings toggles (with multiple styles) on your phone desktop. It is downloadable from android market, costs one buck, has lots of features (my humble opinion - best in it's category) and is easy to set up.
After installed, just longpress on your homescreen/desktop, in any free place, a popup will appear, choose widgets>switch pro>pick the size.
Widget settings will appear. Everything is straightforward from this place.
If you want a setup similar to the controls on my screenshots (transparent background, black icons, red indicator), pick 'no background' for background, set icon color code #FF000000 with 50% transparency when disabled, and set the indicator color code to #FFA80000.
The effect looks like this:
If you prefer solid background, setup is exactly the same, just for the background, pick custom color #FF171717, set icon color, say, to #FF858585 (it's the gray color Metro Shaded has in some ui elements), indicator stays red #FFA80000. Effect:
The lower widget has white indicator dots (hex #FFFFFFFF).

IMPORTANT:
DO NOT move Switch Pro app to sd card. Your widget's will stop working when you do that. This goes for all widgets, not just Switch Pro. It's an android system limitation.

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