Can I dynamically add a View to home screen widget?

Question

I am writing a home screen widget. Is it possible to add a View, e.g. ImageView, to a home screen widget through RemoteViews? I want to generate the views for the home screen widget dynamically.

Thanks.

            updateViews = new RemoteViews(context.getPackageName(), R.layout.widget_news);

            updateViews.setTextViewText(R.id.widget_title, mTitle);

            updateViews.setImageViewBitmap(R.id.widget_picture, 
                        BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray(image, 0, image.length));

My code is like above. But we I call updateViews.addView(aView), my IDE didn't allow me to do that and give me an compile error.

Answer 1

Every time you use RemoteViews, you are pushing the definition of your UI to the app widget. You want more Views? Just use an appropriate layout at that point when creating the RemoteViews instance.