Android :: Appwidget With Fast Updating Needed

Feb 15, 2010

I would need a fast updating (minimum 5 frames/second) appwidget which can be on the desktop all the time (like the cpu usage or other things mostly measurement gauges).The appwidget is not a "must" but I've found it easy to configure for any customer so the management is easy and I need those gauges to be shown like an appwidget on the desktop.The only problem is the update speed - I've seen that appwidget is not really thought for my needs. In my case it's not about phones, the small unit will always have power supply so draining the battery is not an issue. I could tweak the 30 minute update time but it doesn't helps too much - the appwidget framework is simply too slow with all that serialization and would eat too much CPU. What other solutions can be used? I've seen that a system service (LoadAverageService for example) would do the job but that one is not really configurable, has to be compiled into Android so I kinda don't like it. The same is valid with custom app screens or any other solution which needs an custom Android build. So this is a last solution if nothing else works.

A good solution could be if the Appwidget framework would accept other views than the enlisted ones (AnalogClock, Button, Imageview, etc.) and the update would be done internally in the widget, not through the appwidget serialization chanels.

Android :: Appwidget with fast updating needed


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Sep 7, 2010

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Nov 4, 2009

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However, I get the "The method getSharedPreferences(String, int) is undefined for the type widget" error (widget is the name of my AppWidgetProvider class).

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I have an AppWidget which provides a summary of some data stored and controlled by my main Application. (In a similar way to a Calendar AppWidget showing the next event from the main Calendar application). I want to know the best practice for retrieving the data to update my widget. I have followed the example, and I have extended AppWidgetProvider and have a working widget, onto which I can update. I would expect to read the data from my main application and then update it via my AppWidgetProvider's onUpdate() routine.

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Dec 29, 2009

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Jul 29, 2010

I'm writing an app-widget that displays some numbers, each with label in front of it.

The layout looks like this:

.-----------------------------.
| Label1 | AAAAAAAAAAA |
| LongerLabelLabel2 | BBBBBBB |
| LongLabel3 | CCCCCCCCCC |
'-----------------------------'

There is one outer (vertical) LinearLayout, and each row is a horizontal LinearLayout with two TextViews.

The problem is that the numbers get ellipsized if the width of the label and the number is too wide for the widget. I want the labels to get ellipsized.

The above situation for instance, would end up like this:

.-----------------------------.
| Label1 | AAAAAAAAAAA |
| LongerLabelLabel2 | BBBB... |
| LongLabel3 | CCCCCCCCCC |
'-----------------------------'

instead of the desired

.---------------------------.
| Label1 | AAAAAAAAAAA |
| LongerLabelL... | BBBBBBB |
| LongLabel3 | CCCCCCCCCC |
'---------------------------'

I can't for my life figure out how to solve this. Any help is appreciated.

My current layout is the following:

CODE:...................

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