Android :: Widget Developer Tired Of Doesn't Launch Comments
Jun 3, 2009
About one-fourth of comments for my widget on the market are "Doesn't launch" with 1-star rating. Are you guys having the same problem? I've already included the instructions at the top of app's description but doesn't help. Here are the solutions I'm thinking about but don't know how to implement them yet.
1. Having a default activity showing a help page. But this would clutter the app tray with another useless app icon. Can I hide the app icon from launcher after first launch?
2. Launch widget picker activity from the market open button. But this doesn't tell users how to add widgets later on. Is it possible to set AndroidManifest.xml to open widget picker as default activity?
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Jun 30, 2010
I just noticed a new link in the developer console for comments.When clicked, it shows the comments the users have posted. No way to answer them but at least you can see them outside the device.
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Jul 20, 2010
I have a free app that has 64% of ratings at 5 starts, but still has 9% of ratings at only 1 start, some of them even said that my app is an "useless garbage", so I think maybe I need to leave a reply to those users to explain something or answer their questions. So are there any ways that we could do such thing?
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Jul 2, 2009
I'm wanting to make a widget that launches an app another developer made when you touch it. I know you use the startActivity(intent) meathod. But I am wondering how I know what the intent is short of emailing the developer and asking?
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Nov 12, 2009
I am trying to launch an app widget from another application. On click of a button in an application, the appwidget is receiving the message i broadcasted.I have implemented the appwidgetprovider class. In the appwidgetprovider class, in the onReceive function i am able to get the broadcasted message.
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Sep 9, 2010
Is there any way we can launch the widget from our application immediately without user have to choose the widget.
So it like automatically add widget to our home screen using code.
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Jun 13, 2010
I noticed there were occasions when my EVO would not allow me to type into forum boxes such as this from my phone. Anyone else have this issue?
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Sep 26, 2010
My widget launches a configuration screen when chosen to be put on screen. That works fine.
I wanted to be able to touch a part of the widget to return to that configuration screen.
I have created 2 pending intents in my widget's service but only one works. The code is below...
For the life of me i cannot understand how i can launch again the configuration activity.
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Oct 8, 2010
I am following http://www.helloandroid.com/files/xmaswidget/android_howto-hellowidget.pdf for developing a widget. I am unable to launch a widget on to the home screen.When running the application I am getting the errors like No Launcher activity found and The launch will only sync the application package on the device!
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May 23, 2010
I have developed a very simple widget that was meant to interact with the user via an ImageButton. What I am trying to do now is as follows. When a user taps the button (after adding the widget to their home screen), I want the phone to dial a certain telephone number.
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Dec 20, 2009
I'm trying to do something which really ought to be quite easy, but it's driving me crazy. I'm trying to launch an activity when a home screen widget is pressed, such as a configuration activity for the widget. I think I've followed word for word the tutorial on the Android Developers website, and even a few unofficial tutorials as well, but I must be missing something important as it doesn't work.
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Apr 24, 2010
I am desperately trying to get my head wrapped around how to implement home screen widgets. Right now, I (finally) was able to get a button on my widget respond to a button press setting up an intent filter in the manifest.
However, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to launch an activity when the button is pressed. Basically, here's the code i have...
What I really want to do, though, is start a new activity, not display a toast message. I know it has something to do with pending intents, but I can't figure out how to get that to work.
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Sep 14, 2010
I have a widget that when clicked opens an activity from same app as the widget. When the activity is closed/dismissed via a button, the user will see the full app window IF the app was previously open/in memory. Is there a way for the activity to finish and return to the home screen and not to an existing instance of the app?
Intent i = new Intent(this,RateIt.class);
i.putExtra("com.sporadicsoftware.NetQ.movie_id",aMovie.title_id);
i.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_WHEN_TASK_RESET|Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NO_HISTORY|Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(context,
0, i, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);
updateViews.setOnClickPendingIntent(R.id.movie_one_title, pendingIntent);
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Jun 18, 2010
I like to put my EVO to sleep after using it and before I put it back in my jacket pocket or belt case. But I'm really getting tired of having to push the on/off button to do it. Plus I'm concerned that I'll eventually shorten the life on the button with as many times as I push it. Having said that, are there any apps/widgets to put the phone to sleep instead of using the button. I've searched the market and appbrain and found nothing. I've done a general google search and found nothing. Of course I could have been searching using the wrong terms so please don't flame me if there's something obvious.
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Feb 26, 2010
i have not been on this forum for but about 2 weeks now and im exctied about 2.1 just like everyone else
BUT GOD do not come on here talking about how you heard from a friend of a friend of a friend that new a guy that was the janitor for HTC home office and he heard from a guy in the bathroom that we are NOT getting 2.1, you are so full of S$%* that it is coming out of my ears.so before you post about so new info you think you have, READ THE DAMN OTHER POSTS
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Nov 5, 2010
I have a widget that contains 4 buttons to show 4 stock prices, each of them will launch into the same activity Quote.class to show stock details. In onUpdate(), it will set up the pendingIntent with extras with stock symbol. After I hit button A, it goes to Quote activity that shows stock A. Then I hit the BACK button to the homescreen, Quote activity calls onDestroy() and when I hit button B, stock B will show properly. However, when i hit HOME button after it shows stock A, the Quote activity only calls onStop without calling onDestroy(), then as i hit button B, it will call onStart() and it shows the same instance that shows stock A.
CODE:............
Originally I thought adding a flag in the Intent should solve this problem. But I have tried
i.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_MULTIPLE_TASK or FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK or FLAG_ACTIVITY_NO_HISTORY), none of them makes any difference.
So is there any ways to make it work? How can i remove the history stack from HOME button? How can I call onCreate in Quote activity and get new extras when i hit button B?
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Nov 12, 2010
A buddy of mine is looking to root his SF I was on the Incredible Forum earlier and saw someone asking about Z4Root. I was wondering if anyone has tried it with an SF or not?
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Feb 26, 2010
When I go to "open" the newly downloaded HTC battery widget program it comes back with "will not launch". I uninstalled it ads installed it 4x now, nothing works. Am I doing something wrong?
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Jan 5, 2010
I think more people will see this in the Droid forum than in the software forum, plus, it's a major complaint among Droid users that they have to press that unlock button, and THEN still slide to unlock.Here's the app (myLock for Android):myLock for android It's pretty awesome. Uncheck run in foreground mode if you don't want the icon in the notification bar.It also forgoes the slider if you slide open your keyboard. Notice that if your keyboard is a bit loose, this could cause it to unlock in your pocket.
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Nov 4, 2010
I'm trying to do my first widget but it seems not to work in the emulator: when I try to add the widget to the wallpaper, I've got the following message: "Application is not installed on your phone".
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May 11, 2010
I'm trying to make a widget to my app, but it doesnt update.I just need to change the textview text and open an activity when a press a button, but none of them works
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Jun 5, 2010
I want to make (yet another) news widget. Initially I thought it was enough to: 1. Download all the news articles 2. Update the widget every 5 seconds to change the currently displayed article using Alarm Manager (Alarm Manager.RTC) 3. Update the widget every 30-60 minutes to get new articles. This worked great on the first try but battery was quickly drained. I checked the logs and it turned out that the widget did the 5 second updates even if the screen was off. This was a surprise to me since the docs states: "..set an alarm with an Intent that your AppWidgetProvider receives, using the Alarm Manager. Set the alarm type to either ELAPSED_REAL TIME or RTC, which will only deliver the alarm when the device is awake. " I guess the device is considered "awake" even if screen is off? I found the same issue here: http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/threa. I then checked the standard news widget and the other news widgets most popular on the Android Market and I see that they have services running all the time. Maybe because they want to handle the broadcast event when the screen is turned off? So is this really the best solution to have a service running in the background? So if someone downloads 10 different news widgets from different companies they end up with a list of 10 services in the "Running services" list?
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Feb 24, 2010
What is the best way to launch an app and calculate its launch time in android(if it can be done with some code,then its better)
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Dec 8, 2009
The native calendar widget doesn't display the current days events only the upcoming ones. Is there a way to change this or a different calendar app that is better?
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Jan 28, 2010
It was still working find few days back. Still get email notificantions every 15mins like how i set. But i just realized it dosent work anymore. Had to refresh it manually to get the new emails.
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Jul 8, 2010
my eris wont charge. i click on the battery widget and it says charging but it doesnt
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May 18, 2010
Got my legend today and loving it! the only problem i have at the minute is that the 'people' widget doesn't want to find any of my contacts when I search for them.
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Jul 20, 2010
I just finishing doing a wipe for fresh 2.3.3. I have everything configured but when i have my music widget on one of my screens, the album art doesn't show up. Is their anything im missing on configuring?
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Oct 3, 2010
I've been using the stock calendar widget for my exchange calendar and noticed that the date on the top of the widget doesn't update each day to the current date. I have to delete the widget and set it up again for it to show the current date.
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Mar 25, 2010
I am creating an application that checks the installation of a package and then launches the market-place with its id.
When I try to launch market place with id of an application say com.mybrowser.android by throwing an intent android.intent.action.VIEW with url: market://details?id=com.mybrowser.android, the market place application does launches but crashes after launch.
Note: the application com.mybrowser.android doesn't exists in the market-place.
MyApplication is my application.
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However, when I try to launch the market place for a package that exists in the market place say com.opera.mini.android, everything works. Log for this case:
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