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Old 04-04-2015, 12:04 PM   #3
chaley
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@Dhevi: Thanks for the comments. It hadn't occurred to me to "pin" specific books as widgets. The problem is that CC cannot put widgets on the home screen itself, so adding the pinned books would require going through the widget manager. Hmmm...

I saw the Google Play books widget. Nice looking, but TBH I am not up to learning how they did all that eye candy. On the other hand, it could be that the built in stack widget does it (so much to learn). I think I can make a 1x1 resizable/scrollable widget that displays the last N (5 or 10) book covers (by date read or whatever). Depending on the vertical size you would see more than one cover. Depending on the horizontal size you could see some text such as as much of the title that would fit.

One note: I am rather sure that I must restrict such widgets to Android 4 or higher. Given that Gingerbread (2.3) is only 2.5% of CC installations, this restriction is probably not an issue.

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Edit: On a side note - The option to "Clear default reader apps" may not be working. I had selected Mantano as my default reader for epub but CC still remembers and does not allow to changing of the reader app.
It works for me. Send me a debug log. Send it only to me by deleting the multipie.co.uk address. If you want to converse about this, please make a separate thread.
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