I am working on the Note's application. In my appication i want to add the functionality like ColorNotes and Notes app. When i long click to any listview item then it should become the widget on main screen.
How can i build such functionality ?
you can use below link to Learn App Widget
https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/appwidgets/index.html
Use this Example for Sample this will help you to understand how will use list in Widget
https://github.com/commonsguy/cw-advandroid/tree/master/AppWidget/LoremWidget
I am going to assume that those are screenshots of Android home screens, showing some app widgets.
You cannot cause an app widget to be added to the home screen. After all, not all home screens offer app widgets. The user would have to set up the app widget themselves.
Given that the user set up the app widget, you are welcome to populate it based on a long-click of a list row in one of your activities. Use AppWidgetManager and updateAppWidget() to push a new RemoteViews to the app widget based on what the user long-clicked on.
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The app I am wrorking on has three widgets right now. Each of these widgets has a different size and a fix layout file.
Now I've developed a new widget which is resizable and adaptive. It loads a fitting layoutfile according to its size.
Now with the next update with my app I would like to achieve the following:
List only the new adaptive widget in the widget drawer, so the old widgets cannot be created
Already existing widgets shall use the logic of the new widget to update their views
Right now I think that these two goals contradict each other. When I delete or disable the widget receiver from the manifest the widget disappears from the widget drawer but on the same time the existing widget on the homescreen breaks.
When I let the existing widget provider use the new logic the old widgets behave like the new one but on the widget drawer I've got four times the same widget.
Is there a way to achieve my goals? If not, is it possible to hide the old widgets for new users while they will be there for extings users who are updating their app?
Thanks a lot for your answers!
There is no solution to this. When you move the package name of the widget provider the widget gets deleted.
I settled on using one provider of my old widgets which got migrated to the new one. The other three were deleted.
I have created a Widget in android. By clicking that widget I am launching an activity, from there the user can choose any of the item displayed there in the list list view. I am storing the selected item in a shared preference. But the value the user have changed is not updating in the widget until i am re installing the widget. I want to update the widget by code. Is that possible ?
Yes, of course. Here you can find detailed simple example including the code samples: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/appwidgets/index.html#UpdatingFromTheConfiguration
Hie all ,
I am trying to create an simple application and i want that application to show in the widgets list, i.e on long press on the idle home screen it pops up a spinner for us , you can see it in the below figure,
in that you can see item called widgets which list some set of the applications, even you can see that in the next diagram.. My requirement is that i want my application to be listed there rather showing the general applications list.
thanks
datta
You need to create a widget application
see these tutorials
http://www.vogella.de/articles/AndroidWidgets/article.html
I am building a home screen widget and I want to add an advertisement to it. Currently the advertises SDK provides a custom view widget which I tried to embed in my home screen widget. But when I add it, it says problem loading widget. I'm guessing I can't add custom views to a widget? Could someone clarify or tell me how I could add an advertisement to my home screen widget.
Thank you
Home screen widgets support very limited number of standard widgets. You can't use custom widgets for them. See App Widgets.
For a widget I am creating for the Android OS, I want the user to first select a certain option from a Spinner. Just like when you add a shortcut to the homescreen.
Is that possible or do you have to start an Activity?
If it is possible, can anyone explain how to do it?
Spinner widgets do not exist on their own -- you have to have them in an Activity. Android's app widget framework supports the notion of a configuration activity that is automatically launched when somebody chooses your widget. Just put your Spinner in there.