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[...] What’s on your FlyScreen? [...]

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:50:42 +0000

Tied it and loved the idea but had to uninstall. My phone kept waking up everytime it got the slightest nugge in my pocket. Every time I got it out it was trying to tweet something or call someone. Until they fix the whole phonelock issue it is a no-go for me. I'm really sad as I love the app otherwise.

By: Jose

Jose — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:31:15 +0000

Um, thanks for sharing.... I think...

By: o2Do

o2Do — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:30:48 +0000

teh flyscreen rocks. I am on a rooted phone, and mine goes straight to flyscreen, no double lock. Also, it does have a little bug (or maybe it is just mine/rooted phones) if flyscreen is on and locked, hit the home key and it goes home :/

Anyway, I think it is a great app, but needs more customization features. I won't unistall but wait for it to come. Here is my setup:

SMS
Calendar
Weather
Venture Beat
Gizmodo
AndroidGuys
Wired
ESPN Football
Twitter
CNN
The Onion
TechCrunch

By: Abhiroop

Abhiroop — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:23:05 +0000

I tried the beta a while back but found it to be largely useless. I mean the point of the lock screen is to keep the phone locked! Flyscreen would require another lock screen!!

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:03:57 +0000

Flyscreen is almost on the outs for me. It appears that there might be a bug on rooted phones that makes the default Android screen still pop up before Flyscreen does. This means that if I want to actually use my phone, I have to press the menu key twice, and if I want to use Flyscreen, I have to press the menu key once, making the whole purpose of the app irrelevant.

I've kept it pretty simple:

Weather
Facebook
The Onion

I just added the calendar app, but it doesn't really show me anything, just the dates of the month, and I can't change any settings at all, even to make the week start on Sunday instead of Monday. Overall I'm pretty "meh" on Flyscreen. Until I see some different, more useful widgets, I don't see much use for it. I just don't understand reading feeds in that format, either. Especially when I'll just be scrolling through those headlines in my Google Reader later anyway.

By: Pants are Tight

Pants are Tight — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:44:04 +0000

RedTube RSS feed, RocketTube RSS feed, YouPorn RSS feed, Fox News Anchorwomen Calendar RSS feed, a couple of other RSS feeds.

By: Raphaels

Raphaels — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:10:45 +0000

Tried it... it didn't accept my login details for twitter after too many tries... uninstalled.

By: c0z

c0z — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:07:38 +0000

Twitter, AndroidGuys, Engadget, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, SMS, and Weather.

By: Chuck Falzone

Chuck Falzone — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:51:33 +0000

Facebook
Twitter
NYTimes Most Emailed (custom rss)
AndroidGuys
CBS2 Chicago News (not great, will probably replace with another source of local news)
CNN
Lifehacker Top Stores (custom rss)
TechCrunch
The Onion

It really is a great app. Will probably trim down to half a dozen widgets or so...

By: @andru47

@andru47 — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:32:23 +0000

Keeping it simple,

Calendar, Twitter, and Facebook

By: WootRoot

WootRoot — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:25:53 +0000

FlyScreen dropped that size due to it removing the copy protection. The app itself has always been < 3mb

SMS
Calendar
Twitter
Facebook
AndroidGuys (of course)
Engadget
Onion
Cnet
CNN