How can one get the appwidget's own ID?

Question

I am trying to debug a problem where my widget becomes invalid and a new one fills in. This only happens once at the beginning of time and then it remains the second widget forever. So, I want to put code in to narrow down the point in time when it happens. What I would like to do it something like this:

e.g., (not real code) Log.d(TAG, "myWidgetId=" + this.getMyWidgetId());

Then I would get a list of all the enabled IDs and see if I am in the list. I cannot find a method, member, attribute, etc. that would give me my id?

Answer 1

It cannot be done. The AppWidgetProvider's ID is implicitly handled and can change, therefore, the best one can do is to ask the AppWidgetManager to generate a list of the widgets for a particular component, invoke them, then respond to the service request using the provided ID.