Android :: Add App Widget Through Created AppWidgetProvider?

Jul 14, 2010

I'm slighty puzzled about how android's AppWidget machinery works. I reimplemented the AppWidgetProvider's constructor like this:

public class MyProvider extends AppWidgetProvider {
public MyProvider() {
Log.d("TEST", "Creating...")
}
public void onUpdate(..., int[] appWidgetIds) {
// updating stuff here

From what I've read in the docs, I understood that AppWidgetProvider is instantiated once, when widget of that type is added for the first time. If another widget of the same type gets added, it will be managed by exactly that provider.But I just discovered that this is not the case. For each widget I add, android creates a new MyProvider (I see that from 'adb logcat' - it prints "Creating..." for each widget)!I don't understad why. Maybe I got something wrong? Or documentation isn't clear on something. What's the reason of having appWidgetIds passed to onUpdate and other methods if each provider is managing only ONE widget?

Android :: add app widget through created AppWidgetProvider?


Android :: Accessing Elements Of Widget From AppWidgetProvider

Nov 23, 2009

I have built a widget that contains a button and an editable TextView (that behaves like an EditText) much like the native Google Search bar widget. How can I access the text that the user has typed into the TextView? In an Activity I would just use findViewById(), but of course I can't do that in the AppWidgetProvider. (I get the error message "The method findViewById(int) is undefined for the type Widget.") So I tried to solve it by using a million casts, like so: String str = (String) ((TextView)((Activity) context).findViewById(R.id.txt_input)).getText(); Unfortunately, with that line present my app crashes. What is the correct way to get references to those Widget elements? I've read all about RemoteViews and Widgets and looked for examples where somebody does this (which seems like it would be common, but I guess not) but I haven't turned up a solution. What am I missing?.....

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Android :: Way To Display A ListView On A Home Widget With AppWidgetProvider?

Jun 5, 2010

I would like to create a Home Widget containing a ListView, but I don't know if this is possible and if it is, how to do it. I was using a ListActivity and it was pretty simple, but can't figure out a way to do it using AppWidgetProvider.

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Android :: Widget : Get Data From Configure Activity To AppWidgetProvider?

Feb 14, 2010

I'm writing a widget where i first have a configure screen where the user makes a selection. Then I want to pass that data on to the actual widget. This must be really simple but I just can find out how to do it.

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AsyncTask Put In Widget (AppWidgetProvider)?

Apr 5, 2013

I read from my web space from a text file and paste it in TextView.Everything works.

But now I want the (AppWidgetProvider) in my widget insert. My widget has a TextView.

So how can I connect a AsyncTask with a AppWidgetProvider?Tried it. But the app crashes from then.

My MainActivityl.class with AsyncTask it reads. And my AppProviderWidget.class

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Android :: AppWidgetProvider Not Inform When Adding Widget Fails Due To Not Enough Space

Dec 30, 2009

My app has a 1*4 icon size widget. When a user tries to add a widget I provide with a configuration screen. and some data is collected - it is verified by the server - it is added to the local DB with appWidgetID as the key - all is good. when user hits save, if there is not enough space, he is given a polite toast - "No more room on this home screen". Now my problem is that the application is not informed of this. Application still assumes the widget was created and sits back and wait for the broadcast to update the widget after certain amount of time.

Can anyone tell me if i can find out via a broadcast or a call back or any method possible to determine if the widget was not successfully created, so that i can mark that record in my DB as deleted. Or better if i can know the space available beforehand via some magic ninja code. my whole application design is disturbed because of this problem.

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May 31, 2013

is it possible to open an application by tapping a widget created with UCCW and to have a notification mark like Missed it?

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Android :: AppWidgetProvider - 1.5 SDK?

Apr 21, 2009

I have a general question. Is it possible to set the RemoteView of the widget to a WebView? My goal is to push real time updates to the WebView via the comet technique (HTTP long polling), similar to how Google Talk does it on the desktop browser I suppose. Do you think battery life would be significantly impacted with this approach?

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Android :: AppWidgetProvider And BroadcastReceiver

Oct 2, 2009

I have an app widget that extends an AppWidgetProvider to create an application widget.

I would like the application widget to be idle until an activity in my app runs; actually when a service in my app is started.

Once that service is started, I need to "wake up" the application widget and communicate with it (i.e. tell it things to display).

So I see that AppWidgetProvider simply extends BroadcastReceiver -- so does that mean:

1. I need to call registerReceiver in my service and tell it to filter for certain kinds of events?

2. Can I even do #1, or will an AppWidgetProvider *only* accept ACTION_APPWIDGET_* intents?

3. If #2 is correct, how can I communicate or "wake up" / trigger the application widget?

4. Can I send events to my app widget using sendBroadcast( intent )?

Then, my app widget has some buttons on it, I need to send an intent back to the application (or service). I see you can do that with PendingIntents, but if i send the different intents it to the same Activity, it seems to re-use the first created pending intent.

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Android :: Pass Value From AppWidgetProvider?

Nov 8, 2010

I would like to pass a value from the AppWidgetProvider to a service. How can I do that? This value is taken from the widget configuration. If this value changes (by going to the configuration again), how do I pass it back to the service? Is there another way to do this?

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Android :: Model For AppWidgetProvider

Aug 2, 2010

I have a widget that shows some data fetched from the Internet. I may have multiple widgets visible on the screen, each displaying some data, partly the same as the other widgets. From time to time I re-fetch the data from the Internet and update the widget views. I've modeled this in an MVC style: I have a model which I can invoke a "re-fetch-data" on, and which the views listen on. My questions:

A) Is it wise to let my model be a singleton?
B) Can I rely on that all widgets are served by the same AppWidgetProvider? Or may some of my widgets get served by a different AppWidgetProvider instance? Or, more generally: Is there any guarantee that there will be only one instance of my AppWidgetProvider? If there is only one instance of my AppWidgetProvider, then I could use an instance variable here for the model, and pass either my AppWidgetProvider or the model around where needed. Perhaps a better option?

C) In the AppWidgetProviders onUpdate method, can I be sure that the same "context" object is passed as argument each invocation?

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Android :: Updating AppWidgetProvider From Service

Jan 1, 2010

Here is my issue, I want to be able to update a specific AppWidgetProvider (home screen widget) from a custom service class. I have to build the remote view in the service because I'm also doing some networking in there, which takes some time. The problem is that I can't figure out how to update a specific widget (individual widgets can have different update intervals, using the alarm manager). If I wanted to do it from the onUpdate of the AppWidgetProvider I could just call appWidgetManager.updateAppWidget(appWidgetId, remoteView); Does anyone have any experience with this or any suggestions?

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Android :: AppWidgetProvider And Screen Updating?

Nov 13, 2010

I am making a clock widget for the android home screen using AppWidgetProvider. I have it calling the TImerTask class that updates all my values using this code:

@Override
public void onUpdate(Context context, AppWidgetManager appWidgetManager, int[] appWidgetIds {
Timer timer = new Timer();
timer.scheduleAtFixedRate(new MyTime(context, appWidgetManager), 1, 1000);
}

In the TimerTasks run() I am setting a bunch of text views to the relevant values. My problem is that this seems to work fine, but it makes my home screen unresponsive, probably due to updating it every second. How do I fix this and still have it update the display at the correct time? (I only need to see minutes not seconds, but I want the minutes to change at the correct second.)

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Android :: AppWidgetProvider - Convenience Functions

Oct 30, 2009

It seems like the convenience functions (onUpdate, onEnabled, etc.) aren't being called in the emulator on Android 2.0. Is this a bug, or are these functions just being eliminated? It would have been nice to see this documented somewhere.

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Android :: Start AlertDialog From AppWidgetProvider

Aug 6, 2010

Anyone know if it is possible to add AlertDialog within a AppWidgetProvider class? Here is the code I am working on where I start the AlertDialog on onEnabled function call.

@Override public void onEnabled(Context context) { super.onEnabled(context); Log.v(TAG,"onEnabledWidget"); AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(context).setIcon( android.R.drawable.ic_dialog_info ).setTitle(R.string.app_name) .setMessage("This is testing") .setNeutralButton("Confirm", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() { public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int id) { } }); alertNotSmc = builder.create(); alertNotSmc.show(); //runs when all of the first instance of the widget are placed //on the home screen .........

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Android :: Sending Event / Intent To AppWidgetProvider

Sep 30, 2009

From a service that's running, how do I send an event or an intent to an app widget that is just sitting their idle.

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Android :: Signal An AppWidgetProvider From Service Running In Another Process

Feb 2, 2010

I am attempting to signal my widget such that it receives my new Intent from my service

The code I am using to send from the service is as follows:

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Android :: ProgressBar Doesn't Allow Control Of Visibility In AppWidgetProvider

Aug 7, 2009

I was trying to set a progress bar to View.INVISIBLE or View.GONE, or View.VISIBLE inside an AppWidgetProvider. However, it doesn't seem to want to do it. Setting visibility works fine with TextView fields or ImageView fields or ImageButtons. However, ProgressBar doesn't seem to work. It doesn't make sense that just the progress bar type isn't supported for controlling visibility. Has anyone else seen this problem?

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Android :: Store State Information In AppWidgetProvider - Between OnUpdate Cycles

Aug 26, 2009

I know I can save information in a static attribute in a widget, however, is there a way for a widget instance to save the state information similar to the Activity onSaveInstanceState(Bundle outState) method? I don't want to write to a database for this state information.

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Android :: Way To Access Content Resolver Methodsn From AppWidgetProvider Class?

Dec 31, 2009

Is it possible to access the content resolver methods in a class extending from AppWidgetProvider class? Have been trying to do it with no luck so far.

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Dec 3, 2011

Basically what I am trying to do is use a customer font in AppWidgetProvider to display a custom number font in my widget. The issue I am having is that getAssets is not allowed inside of AppWidgetProvider. I have read alot on google and forums about using custom fonts, it seems to be possible but not easy.

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Android :: How To Know Session Has Been Created?

Aug 25, 2010

This is a follow up question of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3550593/sending-html-commands-over-httpclient-android , I have successfully Posted to the server and received 200 code but when I attempt to move to another page it does not recognize that I have logged in. I am wondering if it is a session issue or if i need to follow the redirect after the POST. How would I go about following a redirect?

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Android :: Can I Get ID From Created Drawable

May 26, 2009

I created a new Drawable with: Drawable dx = resources.getDrawable(R.drawable.mydaysminipic_ov); dx.setColorFilter(0xff00ff00, Mode.SRC_ATOP);

and for: updateViews.setImageViewResource(predefinedDraw, --> ID from dx); I need the ID from it... but how to get?

Or any other Idea how to assign my Drawable dx to the above predefinedDraw?

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Aug 14, 2010

I have a ContentProvider which is declared in the Manifest, when is it really created ? When the application is launched but before launching the first activity ? When the first query/update/insert is done ? When ?

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May 30, 2010

I am making an event application and user can set a reminder for events he wants. So i use the alarmManager to create alarms. I would like to put a cancel all option to my main activity so that i could cancel all the alarms created by my application. The usual method for canceling the alarm with the same intent doesnt really help cause i set tha alarms on a different activity than the one I want to cancel them in. So is there a way to cancel all the alarms created by my application?

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Android :: Two Processes Are Created On First Running Of My Application

Mar 4, 2010

Some times after installing my application and first running my application is creating two processes as follows.

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Android :: Where Are Files Created In Simulator Stored?

Jun 22, 2009

I'm wondering where files that are created while running in a simulator are stored. I'm running the 1.5 simulator on Windows Vista. The real reason I want to find the files is because I am downloading an png file and trying to create a bitmap via:
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Android :: Naming A Folder That You Have Created On Your Desktop

Jul 5, 2010

I don't see an option for naming a folder that you have created on your desktop. You can do this on blackberry.

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Android :: Can't Build And Run An Test Project Created

Mar 18, 2010

I have a module that builds an app called MyApp.I have another that builds some testcases for that app, called MyAppTests. They both build their own APKs, and they both work fine from within my IDE. I'd like to build them using ant so that I can take advantage of continuous integration.Building the app module works fine. I'm having difficulty getting the Test module to compile and run.I used android create test-project -p MyAppTests -m ../MyApp -n MyAppTests to create the necessary build files to build and run my test project. This seems to work great (once I remove an unnecessary test case that it constructed for me and revert my AndroidManifest.xml to the one I was using before it got replaced by android create), but I have two problems.Any idea what's causing the "Class ref in pre-verified class resolved to unexpected implementation" error?

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Android :: Cupcake 1.5 R1 Surface Created Is Not Called

Apr 28, 2009

I've created game, everything works fine on all previous android versions except current cupcake 1.5. It works even on cupcake pre release.I'm using exact the same build.xml, sources and resources. The problem is that surfaceCreated is not called : SurfaceHolder mSurfaceHolder = getHolder(); mSurfaceHolder. addCall back(this); setFocusable(true); WaitForScreen(); - here I untill surfaceCreated change variable that it's ready,but it's never called. I just can explain that I'm running SurfaceView activity after stopping regular View activity (for the game menu - it was easier to create it). Please help me if you can figure out something. I'm just a developer not a Android engine tester. If they are putting such stuff to the market they should test it a little bit (not talking about discovered VM crashes instead of exceptions).

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