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Re: Clock For Dock

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"Jeff Gaines" <jgaines_newsid@yahoo.co.uk> writes:

> Apologies if my terminology is wrong, I am talking about the bar at
> the bottom of each screen which Apple calls the dock on OS X.

It's usually called the dock on Android too.

> I would like a LIVE clock to sit there so whatever screen I am on I
> can glance at it and see the time. The nearest I have got is a live
> clock widget which is fine on a screen but won't go in the dock
> (presumably because it's a widget).
>
> Running Android 5.1, any suggestions?

This is a feature of the launcher app (launcher is the app that handles
your home screens, dock, app drawer). I suppose the stock launcher
usually doesn't allow widgets in the dock but you can replace the
launcher (and there are many, I've only used Nova but not recently until
now).

From
http://www.tested.com/tech/android/461722-how-use-nova-launcher-build-android-home-screen-your-dreams/
it looks like Nova Launcher has the ability. With a quick try it may
take some fiddling since the dock seems to squish the widget's size
somewhat so you may need a clock that doesn't have any extra info on
it. The clock widget I happened to have in my phone puts location in
text below the clock and it makes the widget a little high for the dock.

Alternatively, Nova can also disable the dock altogether so you then can
use that area for widgets that don't get squished to the dock's
height. Or make the dock higher...

Oh, I wonder what's wrong with having the time on the notification bar
on top of the screen since that's usually the default?

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Clock For Dock "Jeff Gaines" <jgaines_newsid@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-07-20 15:19 +0000
  Re: Clock For Dock VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2016-07-20 12:02 -0500
  Re: Clock For Dock Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2016-07-21 11:12 +0300
  Re: Clock For Dock "Jeff Gaines" <jgaines_newsid@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-07-21 14:09 +0000
    Re: Clock For Dock Nigel Wade <nmw@local.domain> - 2016-07-21 17:28 +0100
      Re: Clock For Dock "Jeff Gaines" <jgaines_newsid@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-07-21 16:50 +0000
      Re: Clock For Dock crankpuss <undisclosedUserid@gmail.com> - 2016-07-22 06:16 -0600
        Re: Clock For Dock Nigel Wade <nmw@local.domain> - 2016-07-22 16:04 +0100

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