RemoteViews addView function returns errors on AppWidget

Question

I'm trying to create a AppWidget that displays a number of items (which can change). I'd like to generate TextViews dynamically, I assume I do this by using:

RemoteViews updateViews = new RemoteViews(context.getPackageName(), R.id.widgetmain); RemoteViews newView = new RemoteViews(context.getPackageName(), R.id.widgetitem);

updateViews.addView(0, newView);

But this returns a "Problem loading widget" error. The widgetitem.xml is just a TextView within a LinearLayout. The widgetmain.xml is two TextViews within a LinearLayout.

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

updateViews.addView(0, newView);

You should specify correct viewId rather than 0 as the parent of your widgetitem. For your exmaple, you can probably add an empty container under widgetmain for this purpose.