I'm been trying to figure this out for a while now, and have just become more and more confused. I have made a Android Widget which displays two articles (title + image). In addition to this, I have buttons for flipping backward and forward through the articles. What I don't understand is how I can change the Widgets RemoteViews when th...
Is there any ways to check whether the Appwidget is currently being displayed on Home screen or not? The scenario is like this, I have 4-5 app widgets on my homescreen. My Home screen has three workspaces and my widgets are distributed over these workspaces. Now my intention is to get the appwidget that is currently being displayed i...
I have been reading much from various sources on ways to update a widget that is using ImageView Canvas and Draw method to display a clock with a seconds hand. It must be updated every second. What is the most efficient way to do this? Use a Service, the Alarm Manager, Handlers? It can be done, e.g., the Android app "Arc Clock Widget"....
I have a simple appWidget that displays an image. The image is selected in the configuration activity and the widget is updated via the remove view. This is done on a button push executing the code below: Intent intent = new Intent(context, KidDialog.class); intent.setData(selectedImage); PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.g...
I need to update my AppWidget when my main activity pauses. I tried using the following code in my main activity's onPause(): super.onPause(); AppWidgetManager manager = AppWidgetManager.getInstance(this); int[] a = manager.getAppWidgetIds(new ComponentName(this, "WidgetProvider")); new WidgetProvider().onUpdate(this, manager, a); Wh...
I am trying to create a gallery inside a widget in the home screen ....as i am new to android please do give me guidelines and the source code ... ...
Hi, I'm developing a Android AppWidget for my application. For updating my appwidget I need to download data from network. But when I try to do that in onUpdate method, my appWidget is killed by Android system. I learnt that time consuming operations can't be done in receivers so I launched a service from onUpdate method and launched a t...
I am right now running ExampleAppWidget that comes with SDK. Now I could not get the timezone change to affect the widget. It seems the ExampleBroadcastReceiver never gets called when timezone is changed. Anybody was successful in running this widget? I can provide the sample code if needed. Thanks in advance. -Sang Shin javapassion...
Hi I've an IntentService which updates an AppWidget. That Service starts every time the AppWidget is being placed on the Screen or when the AlarmManager /ContentObserver / OnChangeListener get called. It stops itself after updating the widget. UpdateService.java: @Override public void onCreate() { contentObserver = new CustomConten...
I like to display a progress bar on my AppWidget as the Widget downloads data from a server. Can someone please post an example or a hint how to implement that? ...
I have a requirement where in i need to updated my widget once in every 15 seconds. There is a method called android:updatePeriodMillis but that seems to be getting fired only after 30 minutes. I took an approach of updating my Widget with the help of AlarmManager. The widget updates but the issue is it slows down the performance of th...
Say that there is an App Widget that shows a configuration Activity when placed. The configuration page allows adjusting the appearance of the widget. The user may place multiple instances of this widget on their home screen. What would be the best way to maintain the unique configuration states on each of the widget instances? Or woul...
how can i put appwidget on my view and let it updated itself??now,i can put the remoteviews on my activity,but it seems not update itself, how can i make it update itself? ...
Hi Guys, I am trying to retrieve an BLOB image data from MySQL database using PHP and use that data to convert it to a bitmap and display it on my AppWidget. What happens is the widget initial layout remains on screen and never gets updated. Here are the snippets of my code. Widgetinfo xml <appwidget-provider xmlns:android="http://s...
I'm making an Android AppWidget to sit on the home screen. The user's home screen space is precious, so I want the widget to be small. The ideal size would be 2x1 cells. Some documentation suggests you can have any size you like? But the AppWidget graphical design guidelines imply that only standard sizes are supported: 4x1, 3x3, 2...
I have a widget layout xml which sets the src to the delivered android widget 4x1 frame image.Here is the widget layout code. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <AbsoluteLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:id="@+id/tuwidget" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_p...
I have a Widget i am working on, that allows the user to have more then one instance of the widget on his screen. Each Widget id maintains its own configuration file. However for some odd reason my code that is responsible for setting up the buttons individually for each widget id is not working, only the first widget id is linked to eac...
I have an App and an AppWidget associated with it. The AppWidget is updated by an Update Service. What I want to implement is that the AppWidget only starts getting updates only when the User has logged in, much like the Facebook/Twitter Application and AppWidget functionality on Android. If the User is not logged in, the Widget will sho...
I have created an app widget in Android and want to add some gesture-based functionality to it. For e.g: when user swipes up new set of data be displayed. AFAIK, gestures are not supported in AppWidgets and yet I have seen widgets which have similar functionality(e.g. HTC widgets photo album and weather widget). Please help me out and...
Hi, I currently modifying the sample home screen app from the SDK. My question is how do I add an appwidget to the sample home app on a long press? ...