Gotta say, I REALLY like BattMonX! This app seems really really accurate and extremely customizable! Not to mention the fact that it doesn't drain my battery as some other apps or widgets that always run like this can do. I got the donate version already
JB, thank you very much...I really appreciate your kind words. I might have gone a little overboard, lol, in adding all of the options and customizations that people have requested
. Thank you very much for purchasing the donate version.
Scary Alien, is there any way to change the colors of the battery in the notification bar?
Yes and maybe...
Let me explain. I originally started-out with battery icons, both with and without lightning bolt symbols (to indicate charging) for nearly each color that you can choose in the color palette. Then, I created dark status bar icons for each of the above (I think that's 48 icon images now).
Now, along comes Steven (again!
) installing the GB leak and sees (as I can now on my DX after Steven helped me install it Saturday night), that the percentage number on GB is really small. So, I created a set of 200 files (layer-lists actually), one green set for a light status bar, and a green set for a dark status bar. It was too daunting to build a set of 200 layer-list files for each color
eek
so I stuck with plain, old green (and I stayed with the red number balloon like in Froyo--these are actually two sets of 10 digits that I build-up in the layer-lists, plus a special number 100 icon).
So, could build additional sets of the large number icons, but didn't want to build a few thousand
eek
additional layer-list files for each color, but I might be willing to build another color set if you really want. Any ideas / requests?
By the way, I was hoping (and did a ton of research and testing) to try to dynamically build my status bar icons (in Java) without having to build separate layer-list files, but I was unsuccessful and my posts on two separate Android / Google Java forums have gone unanswered
. I still hold-out hope.
I like the look of the default a lot but I couldn't read the battery percentage easily (old age maybe) so I changed it to "Use Large Number Icons". The red and green clash slightly with my nice Gingerbread look though. I love how customizable the LED lights are...any chance an update will allow notification bar icon color to be as customizable? Or is it already there and I'm just a nitwit?
No you are doing it right...if you and a few others can come to a consensus as to a few colors you'd like to be able to choose from, I'd be willing to include some more of them (i.e., for the large number format icons).
Kudos on the app though it's fantastical!
Thank you again. I appreciate the feedback and support.
Cheers!
P.S. The problems that I had with the LED-is-always-on setting disappeared after a lot of fruitless debugging and I realized that the GB upgrade did "something" to my preferences. A fresh de-install / re-install seem to have corrected things for me. Now, I just have the auto-locate (minor) issue to fix.
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