Description
Get vehicle OBD engine information as a widget on your home screen!This is an add-on for Torque Pro, the OBD2 car app for monitoring your vehicle engine management data. You can find Torque on the Android Market
It lets you display the various dials and widgets from the app on your android homescreen! Monitor all the standard OBD2 sensors as you can in the app such as coolant, RPM/Revs, Transmission temperature*, knock retard*, MPG, HP and Torque!
For example, you could have a trip fuel cost widget displayed on your homescreen, showing your total trips fuel cost (perfect for when your kids are using dads taxi!)
There is an on / off toggle widget that you can also add which will pause the homescreen widget updates and to control the startup of Torque itself. Turn the widget off, Torque will shutdown, turn the widget on and Torque will start up automatically.
This widget needs the Torque OBD app, and will automatically start Torque to run in the background as a service (the app has been optimised to be very power efficient). It will then automatically connect to your vehicle when you start a journey and start showing information!
Supports phones, tablets, and tablets running honeycomb
Please note: Using launchers like ADWLauncher/TouchWiz may result in slow updates of the widget, the developers of those launchers will need to fix their code so it can update the widget faster. Works fast with the default launcher that comes with Android
* = capability dependant on vehicle.
Zebulon
Feb 20, 2012 7:14:57 AM
Unresponsive and system intensive Running this on a galaxy tab. Brings the system to a standstill when not in contact with my bluetooth ecu device, and even when active the widgets are very slow and clunky. :( too bad I cant get a refund...
Eltaco
Dec 29, 2011 4:53:56 AM
Too slow Slow to update on an overclocked droid x. I just launch the paid torque app with more options and fast updates.
Sidney
Oct 31, 2011 4:07:39 PM
Great idea However the widgets update very slowly, and so its not really realtime. I'm pretty sure this is an issue with how fast android updates widgets though.
NUSHOR
Oct 20, 2011 7:34:03 AM
Perfect How about a toggle to turn torque on and off so it's not always running. EDIT thank you for implementing my suggestion :-D now it is Perfect
emjayes
Oct 9, 2011 8:33:33 PM
Alarm clock? Fix the screen that appears if you press Open after installing. I did not buy an alarm clock.