Showr —home screen photos&RSS
Free AppAbout Showr —home screen photos&RSS
Put comics, information, photos, and webcams at your fingertips, keep an eye on your Tumblr dashboard, or make your Android device truly personal, with Showr.
With this free home screen widget (appwidget), add resizable images to your home screen or lock screen:
★ A fixed or changing image from the web, such as a webcam, Travis CI build status, …
★ The latest image from an RSS or Atom feed.
★ A photo from your phone's camera (using any installed camera app).
★ Any image from the Gallery (or Dropbox, or any other app that offers image content).
★ Any user's "flair" from Stack Overflow or any other Stack Exchange site. No more pasting URLs or trying to find your number: just pick the site and user from a list.
New in 2.3! Showr now integrates with Tumblr to bring your favourite pictures from Tumblr to your home screen, free! You can choose from any or all of:
★ Pictures on your dashboard.
★ Pictures from any blog. Add blogs you already follow on Tumblr, with just two clicks!
★ Your likes. Use this for full control of what pictures you get!
★ Another blog's likes, if they've chosen to share them.
★ Posts with a tag of your choice.
Even if you don't have an account on Tumblr, follow the latest trends or arty photos. If you do have an account, Showr automatically applies your settings to show or hide NSFW posts. Don't forget that Pro users can also use Showr's per-network settings to avoid NSFW downloads.
With Showr's popup menu, you can view the image full-screen, share it with your friends, or go to more details on the web, with one tap. With "smart updating", Showr can reduce battery and network use; it has options to download over Wi-Fi only, and/or exclude certain Wi-Fi networks. NFC and QR code support (on capable devices) make Showr easy to set up and use.
Replace Google Reader now! Showr can get and update images and links from an RSS or Atom feed, such as:
★ Put a Flickr photostream or the "daily interestingness" on your home screen.
★ Follow a photo blog on Blogger, WordPress, …
★ Give your home screen a "funnies page" with all your favourite web comics and cartoons, updated automatically.
Keep your most important data up to date, where you can see it:
★ National and local weather maps and forecasts.
★ Online gaming profiles and avatars from XBox Live, Steam, PSN, Planetside 2; showing your XP and achievements.
★ Build and test status from Cruise Control, Travis CI, or other build systems.
If you can download a picture of it, Showr can put it on your home screen!
About permissions:
Showr uses “Full network access” and “View network connections” to download the images you tell it to, according to your schedule. It doesn't share your information or pictures.
Showr uses “Control Near-Field Communication” (if your phone is capable) so you can scan an NFC tag to set up a widget. It doesn't use NFC at any other time.
Showr uses “Google Play billing service” so you can access to new features by upgrading to Showr Pro in-app.
Showr uses “View Wi-Fi connections” so you can apply different download settings to different Wi-Fi networks. It doesn't record or transmit what networks you connect to.
If you want to know more, just ask us at support@shadowburst.com.
Image credits:
The feature image shows:
• Stack Overflow “flair” http://stackoverflow.com/
• Mathew Street webcam courtesy of http://www.mathew.st/ Live webcams on the world famous Mathew Street in Liverpool, UK - Birthplace of the Beatles.
• Planetside 2 stats from http://planetside-universe.com/
The Nexus 7 home screen also includes ‘Brown bear cub in river’ © Carl Chapman, CC-BY-2.0 http://www.flickr.com/photos/carlchapman/ and detail of http://flic.kr/p/9fUj1C
This application uses the Tumblr application programming interface but is not endorsed or certified by Tumblr, Inc. All of the Tumblr logos and trademarks displayed on this application are the property of Tumblr, Inc.
With this free home screen widget (appwidget), add resizable images to your home screen or lock screen:
★ A fixed or changing image from the web, such as a webcam, Travis CI build status, …
★ The latest image from an RSS or Atom feed.
★ A photo from your phone's camera (using any installed camera app).
★ Any image from the Gallery (or Dropbox, or any other app that offers image content).
★ Any user's "flair" from Stack Overflow or any other Stack Exchange site. No more pasting URLs or trying to find your number: just pick the site and user from a list.
New in 2.3! Showr now integrates with Tumblr to bring your favourite pictures from Tumblr to your home screen, free! You can choose from any or all of:
★ Pictures on your dashboard.
★ Pictures from any blog. Add blogs you already follow on Tumblr, with just two clicks!
★ Your likes. Use this for full control of what pictures you get!
★ Another blog's likes, if they've chosen to share them.
★ Posts with a tag of your choice.
Even if you don't have an account on Tumblr, follow the latest trends or arty photos. If you do have an account, Showr automatically applies your settings to show or hide NSFW posts. Don't forget that Pro users can also use Showr's per-network settings to avoid NSFW downloads.
With Showr's popup menu, you can view the image full-screen, share it with your friends, or go to more details on the web, with one tap. With "smart updating", Showr can reduce battery and network use; it has options to download over Wi-Fi only, and/or exclude certain Wi-Fi networks. NFC and QR code support (on capable devices) make Showr easy to set up and use.
Replace Google Reader now! Showr can get and update images and links from an RSS or Atom feed, such as:
★ Put a Flickr photostream or the "daily interestingness" on your home screen.
★ Follow a photo blog on Blogger, WordPress, …
★ Give your home screen a "funnies page" with all your favourite web comics and cartoons, updated automatically.
Keep your most important data up to date, where you can see it:
★ National and local weather maps and forecasts.
★ Online gaming profiles and avatars from XBox Live, Steam, PSN, Planetside 2; showing your XP and achievements.
★ Build and test status from Cruise Control, Travis CI, or other build systems.
If you can download a picture of it, Showr can put it on your home screen!
About permissions:
Showr uses “Full network access” and “View network connections” to download the images you tell it to, according to your schedule. It doesn't share your information or pictures.
Showr uses “Control Near-Field Communication” (if your phone is capable) so you can scan an NFC tag to set up a widget. It doesn't use NFC at any other time.
Showr uses “Google Play billing service” so you can access to new features by upgrading to Showr Pro in-app.
Showr uses “View Wi-Fi connections” so you can apply different download settings to different Wi-Fi networks. It doesn't record or transmit what networks you connect to.
If you want to know more, just ask us at support@shadowburst.com.
Image credits:
The feature image shows:
• Stack Overflow “flair” http://stackoverflow.com/
• Mathew Street webcam courtesy of http://www.mathew.st/ Live webcams on the world famous Mathew Street in Liverpool, UK - Birthplace of the Beatles.
• Planetside 2 stats from http://planetside-universe.com/
The Nexus 7 home screen also includes ‘Brown bear cub in river’ © Carl Chapman, CC-BY-2.0 http://www.flickr.com/photos/carlchapman/ and detail of http://flic.kr/p/9fUj1C
This application uses the Tumblr application programming interface but is not endorsed or certified by Tumblr, Inc. All of the Tumblr logos and trademarks displayed on this application are the property of Tumblr, Inc.
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App History & Updates
What's Changed
• Works around an Android bug where the launcher wouldn't recognise a change in the "How to scale the image" setting until you rotate the home screen
• Is better at detecting "captive" Wi-Fi networks
• Won't try to launch a web browser if one doesn't exist (e.g. in a restricted profile or custom ROM)
• Works around a bug in Android < 4.0 which would cause certain network errors to crash the app
• Recovers when the network re-appears, if Showr is stopped by Android while there is no Internet
• Works around an Android bug where the launcher wouldn't recognise a change in the "How to scale the image" setting until you rotate the home screen
• Is better at detecting "captive" Wi-Fi networks
• Won't try to launch a web browser if one doesn't exist (e.g. in a restricted profile or custom ROM)
• Works around a bug in Android < 4.0 which would cause certain network errors to crash the app
• Recovers when the network re-appears, if Showr is stopped by Android while there is no Internet
What are users saying about Showr —home screen photos&RSS
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Perfect app for putting pictures on your home screen. Doesn't do much else, but you can link sites and apps. Suggestion: Add the ability to change how the picture fits in the frame.
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Thank You! It worst just like I want it to
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doesnot work. especially everything theysaid they fixed
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I love it. Its mad lit fam
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Perfect. I use it for my timetable
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Cool no problems at all :)
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Works well, helpful
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easy to use
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Great app
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Great other than the fact that you can only have three.
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I needed an app for capturing images from web cams and weather forecast sites. I thought Showr would be ideal for this use, but was having problems inputting the URL into the widgets. An email to the developer and a prompt reply guaranteed a quick and easy method to program my widgets. Kudos for the performance of this app and also the developer's excellent support. I understand Showr can do much more than I am asking of it right now, so I'm sure it will handle the bulk of my home screen image
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Once you add a widget you can change the size and shape. I now have a screen of just photos. Easy to use and lots of options to pull pictures from (though I am only using the Photos app). Found this one on the website Stack Exchange.
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Ive been using this everyday for the past 2 weeks and so far it has never failed me. I use it to get a live update from my favourite tumblr blog.
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I'm using it to have images on my home screen automatically updated. App serves it well
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Wanted a tumblr widget that displayed my dashboard for months, even tried making my own, and here it is.
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Finally found working and configurable widget for this. Thanks!
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Easy to use, just what I wanted
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But then after only using it for 3 photos, it required me to upgrade. I didn't even get to try it for more than a few minutes. So I don't know if it's one of those ones that loses the picture all the time, or crashes every time you reboot your phone. I'm not going to pay for an app that I don't KNOW works well. I would not recommend this app.
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I needed to put a timetable I had in image form as a widget. So much more convenient than having to keep going to gallery. It's the simple things in life..
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Bought for flickr photos team display, non obvious what is expected in the URL.
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Great other than the fact that you can only have three.
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I can't zoom in on a part of a photo to be seen in the widget. If I click on the photo widget and get a full size image, I can zoom, but I want a portion of a photo to be what is seen in the frame. Also it'd be nice to have framing options. For $5, I'm pretty sure I could have gotten a better widget.
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doesnot work. especially everything theysaid they fixed
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Galaxy S4 w/ Kit Kat. I see no indication within the Gallery that it knows this app exists, and the app when run says no widgets installed.
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I use the app to put some weather maps on my phone's desktop.
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I like it because it is minimal and easy to configure… to be more specific: I love the Tumblr and StackExchange helpers. Especially since I had been looking for a nice way to display SE-badges on my homescreen for a long time. To be honest, I liked *showr* that much that I got myself the pro version so that I can add 10 different StackExchange and StackOverflow flair-badges on my desktop, to get my blog's RSS feeds latest picture displayed, and to enjoy the other pro functionality (cropping etc.) which - from my point of view - really puts a cherry on this app.
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I can't find the widget. It's not in my widgets tab! EDIT: this is awesome! I went pro.
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Great other than the fact that you can only have three.
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Nice
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What a great app, perfect in fact.
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This is awesome no problems for me everything works great I'm glad to have found and be using this and for this to be the free version and it have a pro the free version is awesome so I'm sure you couldn't go wrong with the pro. Thanks for this awesome app.
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Very good program.
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Maybe it does what it says but I'm not gonna pay to find out!
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Does what it says and is nicely configurable. Love it!
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As in "it shows you things", not "it runs water on your head".
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I needed an app for capturing images from web cams and weather forecast sites. I thought Showr beta would be ideal for this use, but was having problems inputting the URL into the widgets. An email to the developer and a prompt reply guaranteed a quick and easy method to program my widgets. Kudos for the performance of this app and also the developer's excellent support. I understand Showr beta can do much more than I am asking of it right now, so I'm sure it will handle the bulk of my home screen image display tasks.
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Like the app that I paid for pro version.... just disappointed for my £2.70 all i can do is crop image and that automatically done, would of expected more edit functions for the pro and especially the price