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Originally Posted by lindasadko
Dear Jotta -- I am Linda from Sadko Mobile, maker of AskDroid. It is not possible yet to make a widget box in which you can type directly, this function is barred by Google. We tried to streamline your user experience though. You mentioned that "wikipedia doesn't work". For thousands of our users, Wikipedia search (English and other national languages) works perfectly, and I am quite perplexed at what you mean. Can you please describe the problem in more detail so that we would look at it and fix it?
thank you!
Linda-Sadko
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Thank you for your response, Linda.
I should note that I am using a rooted Nook Color.
Let me clarify what I meant: Wikipedia works fine for single words, but for two words it doesn't return a response. Any two words with space between returns "wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name".
For example, Thomas Jefferson. The URL when I type in AskDroid is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%2Bjefferson, whereas if I type in wikipedia's website the URL is
http://en.wikidpedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson. Another example would be butterfly effect:
AskDroid:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly%2Beffect
regular:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect
There seems to be an extra "%2B" when I type in AskDroid.
But for single words it works perfectly fine.
I should also explain my "clunky" comment: The icons are larger than the other icons I have on my Nook Color homescreen. Also, the bars on the top and bottom are relatively thick, IMHO. I also would rather choose/edit the search engines by going into AskDroid and selecting menu preferences as opposed to having the plus sign on the left in the widget itself. For me at least, once I choose my search engines I rarely, if at all, need to change them again, so the plus icon just adds clutter to the widget.
For what it's worth, I would like to see the icons a tad smaller (maybe adjustable?) and a thin border all around the widget.
And just to balance out my comments, I still use AskDroid and it is a very useful widget! Thank you.