Is there a way to know if there is an instance of your widget currently on the homescreen? I always end up using variables that change state with onUpdate() and onDeleted() calls, but that obviously that isn't effective in every scenario.
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I am learning the app widget programming in the 1.5 SDK release. I was playing with the sample widget (wiktionary) and found out that you can actually add multiple instance of the same widget to the home screen, is there a way to prevent this? An attribute in the XML? I am stuck with 3 instance of wikitonary and 2 instances of music player on my emulator now... can't get rid of them... :(Also I am looking into buliding my own app widget container, not a home screen replacement, just a container that can host other widgets, I read the appwidgethost api doc, is there any sample code or guide on how to use the appwidgethost api
View 3 Replies View Relatedwill the device wake up if there is a widget instance on the homepage but the widget provider or receiver is disabled?If I have a widget instance on the home page, but if I were to disable the widget provider from receiving messages by disabling the component, and if I have no components receiving the messages targeted for that widget, will Android still wake up the device?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI was wondering if it's possible to get the icon (shortcut) of your app on the home screen during installation instead of inside the standard apps folder? And I did find out that Android has AppWidgets but I was wondering if it supports "standard" widgets as well (javascript/html/css) ?
View 1 Replies View Relatedhow can i make a 4g widget for my hm screen? so i dont have to goto settings/wireless networks etc.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI 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.
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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?
I'm trying to create a homescreen Android widget and have it alternate between two different textviews I would send to it. Is this possible?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've just switched to launcherpro from sense, and the one thing I miss is the news widget. On sense in had three full page widgets devoted to it, and I need a replacement! Requirements are:
Full page widget
Multiple homescreen support
Simple aesthetics
Customisable news feeds
I can't find how to display a list in the app widget. I have created one app-widget which fetches the database table information and I want to display all the icon:text into app-widget. Remoteviews doesn't have any list functionality.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm writing a appwidget and hope to limit a widget can be added only once on homescreen, and for further trying, i hope to show the correct page of homescreen to show the widget, just like native media player widget.
View 2 Replies View RelatedIs there an Event that is fired when an widget becomes visible on to the homescreen. I didn't mean at install time, I mean if the user changes his homescreen by wiping the surface of the phone. The background of this question is that I setup a timer in a service inside the widget that gets updates from a url but that should stop if the widget is not on the current homescreen.
View 3 Replies View RelatedDoes anyone know how to handle widget's "Long Click" event on home screen? I want to implement: long click one widget on home screen then one menu will be popup.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have a homescreen widget with an imagebutton. I have the button working with a pending intent, but I can't seem to figure out how to change the button image when it is pressed. I tried using a selector and it works in my widget test activity, but not in the remoteview. How could I implement this functionality in the home screen widget?
View 2 Replies View RelatedIs there any good alternative for the Astrid tasks app? I just need a widget on my homescreen like Astrid to show tasks. The problem with Astrid is that it has a backup process which keeps running in the background even when I disable backups. (See for yourself, in running processes).
View 3 Replies View Relatedi've got the wifi on/off and the mobile network on/off. either i can't remember how to do this or its different for gps. i've seen pictures off people's phones that have this.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI tried out Flyscreen the other day and found its card-based flipping through rss/facebook/twitter/weather to be very fluid and pretty. The trouble is, I don't really want that as my lockscreen (besides which, it doesn't seem to truly lock the screen). Does anyone know of a similar app that creates a widget I can flip through in a similar way on a homescreen?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have the HTC widget for wi-fi access being turned on and off placed on one of my homescreens. The widget allows wi-fi to be on or off.When clicking the wi-fi widget ON the wi-fi won't come on until I manually go into Setting ->Wireless and Networks->wi-fi network and manually turn on my Wi-fi connection. Now this is not a huge issue but one none the less. Once I connect the wi-fi in this manner it work fantastic at 54mbps. with a good connection. I know the router is working since I use it for my laptops in the house and my in-laws come and use it as well with no issues.
Is this due to the fact that it has WPA password (which is already saved on the phone as the password and doesn't ask for it to access the wi-fi)? Could it be something I am doing wrong. Is there perhaps something I can do to fix this, whether it be a setting or a 3rd party widget to toggle between on and off.
I had the big version of the weather widget on my home screen till I accidentally removed it. I think I removed it. It's now blank where it formally was. This is the default weather thing that's on the home page of the phone when it's new. I am assuming I had HTC's Weather widget, but now when I try to re-add it (Plus Sign/Add Widget/Weather) I get an error that says "No room for this widget", "In order to install this widget you need to create space on a page of the Home screen". So I actually cleared everything off of the main home screen and I am still getting that "No room for this widget" error. How I can get the weather back on this page?? I can add the 2 smaller versions but not the one I formerly had.
View 4 Replies View RelatedSo I had the setCPU widget on my homescreen, and was noticing that when I wake my phone up, the screen comes on but it would take about 4 or 5 seconds for it to respond to any scrolling or touch input. At first I suspected it was my screen off profile being too low (480/245). But I then removed the widget and the problem seems to be solved for the most part. Can someone confirm that this is an issue or is it just a placebo? Oh, running PlainJaneT2 Stock 2.1 with OC and A2SD.
View 9 Replies View RelatedWhen I installed 3d clock widget not able to add it to the homescreen..
View 3 Replies View RelatedWhat are my options for a replacement? I liked the fact that the stock HTC one took up all of one of my home screens, so I'm looking for something at least similar.
View 20 Replies View RelatedI just bought Beautiful Widget and selected the clock and weather skins. My questions is: how do you get it on the home screen. I've tried a few things but the stock home screen is still there.
View 15 Replies View Relatediam looking for a camera application, where i can set the settings as a widget.
Example: when i want to make a hdr shoot i want to start camera with hdr widget, when i make a normal shot i want to start camera with normal widget ...
do you know what app/widget that is on the left? Maybe, do you know similar apps that can show all kinds of notifications on homescreen (not lockscreen)?
The screenshot was on Simple Calendar Widget but it has to be another app.
I long press on my homescreen widget, the resize "handle" appears, I resize the widget, I can do absolutely nothing else. Stuck in resizing hell. Have to re-boot to stop the insane amount of resizing going on.
After re-boot the f'n widget is back to the same undesirable old size.
just noticed today that when going back to my homescreen, the weather/clock takes a split second to re-appear. i have beautiful widgets weather, and this is the first time it has happened. batt pulled, rebooted, reloaded skins, and no luck.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI turned the power control widget on and don't like it on my home screen. How do I take it off my home screen?
View 3 Replies View RelatedIs there a way to have a calendar widget on the home screen with the days current activities? I saw it on one of the scene layouts.. I think it was the work one but I want to use the sprint scene and add that widget. Is this possible? Also, is there a to do list or task list app built in or do I need to download one. If I do have to download one are there any recommendations.
View 1 Replies View RelatedBrand new droid and incredible owner switching from a blackberry. I was playing around today with my new phone and I accidentally deleted the "favorites" widget. How do I restore the "favorite" widget to my homescreen? I want it to take up the whole screen not just the small shortcut.
View 5 Replies View RelatedIs there such a widget/app that can place a button on the home screen to instantly lock the screen instead of pressing the power button.
The only one I could find takes 6 seconds before it locks.