LauncherPro Upgrade Brings Friends Widget, Customizable Grid Sizes
This is becoming a weekly tradition, it seems! We know we’re a few days late (we’ve been very busy), but Federico Carnales has just updated his LauncherPro app – versioned 0.7.9.0 – which brings a nice list of improvements and new features. That Friends widget that looks to emulate FriendStream has been added to round off his plans for scrollable social network widgets (and widgets in general: he states that he’ll now be focused on improving the suite of widgets currently offered. While this doesn’t mean he won’t continue to add more widgets down the line, he won’t promise anything for the immediate future.)
Also added is the ability to customize your homescreen grid size, a feature many ADWLauncher fans have been enjoying for a while. Take a look at the full list of changes and fixes below, and be sure to go grab your update from the Android market or the LauncherPro site after you’ve done that.
A new version of LauncherPro has just hit the market. Here’s what v0.7.9.0 brings:
For all users:
Increased the sensitivity for swiping through homescreens. It should respond to shorter swipes now.
New: Customizable homescreen grid size! You can now choose how many columns and rows of icons/widgets to have on your homescreens (Preferences > Homescreen Settings). There’s also an “Auto-fit items” option which will resize the grid cell size to match the grid dimensions, so that widgets/icons don’t overlap.If you increase the grid size and move stuff around (or resize widgets), and then want to decrease the grid size again, make sure to revert your changes, otherwise some widgets will be unusable, and some icons might fall off the screen.
For Plus users only:
Fixed the Calendar widget’s Agenda view not updating at the end of each day.
Enabled vertical scrolling in the “Facebook Login” process so that users with low pixel density devices (like HTC Wildfire) can reach the buttons.
New: Friends Widget. This is the last promised widget in the LauncherPro Plus series (Note: there *will* be more widgets in the future, after making some improvements to the current widgets). The Friends widget blends Twitter and Facebook updates into one widget. If you’ve used the individual widgets, then you already know the drill. There’s a Timeline view (with your Twitter timeline and Facebook news feed) and a Wall view (with your Twitter mentions and Facebook wall). A third view might come in a future update with Twitter direct messages and Facebook inbox. Since the Facebook API doesn’t support sending direct messages, those would be read-only, with no way to reply from the widget.There’s a small logo over the contact pictures to show which network each status came from. The “Compose” button will let you update your status on both networks at the same time, or only one network (use the checkboxes to choose where to post the update to).