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Originally Posted by chaley
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Originally Posted by chaley
We are agreed that "read" means "read using CC's command"?
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I'm not totally sure what you mean here. Once a book widget is on the Home screen I wouldn't anticipate needing to manually open CC to continue reading. I wouldn't care what is doing the actual launching behind the scenes. |
I mean that a widget, as opposed to a shortcut, would show the last book (or books) that have been "read" from CC. There is no interaction with reading apps.
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I think that a widget that auto-updates with the top N (1? 5?) of last read books is a good idea. I need to spend some time determining whether and how this can be built. I am fairly sure that N=1 is easier than N>1, but I don't yet know how much easier it is.
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If N=1 is easy, perhaps that's what the first iteration should be. Save N>1 for a possible future enhancement.
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It seems that doing 1 or doing N has the same level of difficulty, neither is particularly straight-forward. More study needed.
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I can add a menu item to CC's book details that looks something like the following: ...
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It looks easy enough to use and at least it's accessible from the same place where you actually open each book for the first time. However, I'd still prefer a persistent widget which automatically contains the book I last opened in CC. Maybe next time ... 
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There is a big difference in Android between a "shortcut" and a "widget". A shortcut is a fixed item on the home screen (desktop) that launches an application but otherwise has not interaction with it. A widget is an active item on the home screen that interacts with a running application. I have shortcuts worked out. I am now looking at widgets.
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The result on the home screen looks like
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Please tell me that cover image isn't going to be square  Unlike some, I don't get overwrought when aspect ratio isn't strictly kept but even I draw the line at distortion to square. How about a simple user choice of 2 different configurations:- cover image only, no caption - max. size possible for 1x1 widget. Perhaps it varies by device but a 'completely full' 1x1 gives reasonable aspect ratio on my Note3.
- small cover image (or square standard CC icon ?) plus a Title caption underneath.
I would choose the former and RichieTheK, probably the latter.
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I am always amazed by what is important to people.
Shortcuts have captions and fit in a fixed 1x1 square. No options possible. I can make the cover icon preserve its aspect ratio inside that 1x1 square.