I'd like to link to my app widget configuration activity from inside my app. I know it's possible to launch the Android widget picker but can I bypass that step and let my users create a widget on their home screen from inside my app?
can I bypass that step and let my users create a widget on their home screen from inside my app?
No. For example, the user's home screen may not support app widgets (Android TV, Chrome OS, specialty home screen implementations, etc.).
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I have a nicely working widget.
I have an idea to add an option for the users to launch any (previously installed) app from the widget by pressing the dedicated button. So I want users to be able to choose 1-2 apps from their installed apps in the widget configuration part and be able to launch them from the widget.
Is there any way to add this functionality without declaring this widget a launcher?
If yes, could I get any hints, maybe some tuts, please?
I really appreciate any help you can provide.
Adam
I'm making an assignment about widgets but I wanna learn firstly difference between app widgets and home screen widgets? Is there any difference? what can i care about them while im explain them
Is there any difference?
Quoting the documentation:
App Widgets are miniature application views that can be embedded in other applications (such as the Home screen) and receive periodic updates.
In most cases, app widgets are "home screen widgets".
App Widgets can be added to either home screen or the lock screen or even to a custom app widget host for that matter.
Home Screen Widgets are just a sub set of app widgets. As the name suggests, they can only be hosted in home screen.
you can read all about Widgets here:
http://developer.android.com/design/patterns/widgets.html
Does anyone have example code for creating URL shortcut on the android device home screen ?
I want my app to create some shortcuts to URL.
What do you want to do if the home screen is already full?
I think there are several good reasons why the user should be involved.
This link shows how a user can do it manually:
http://androidforums.com/htc-desire/197568-internet-shortcuts.html
And it contains another link to an app that lets you make custom icons etc.
http://www.folderorganizer.net/how-to/change-label-icon/
If you make a widget for your app, you can programmatically change URL shortcuts that appear in your widget ;-)
I have customised the home screen sample application which was there in Android SDK samples, and now trying to add a clock widget there.This home screen sample doesn't have any option in the menus to add widgets.
And my objective is to just a Digital Clock and Whether in the Home screen.
So can you pls suggest me about how to proceed ?
Use a different home screen as the basis for your research. The Launcher2 home screen is in the Android open source project, and there may be third-party home screen implementations that are open source as well. You will be looking for classes like AppWidgetHost and AppWidgetHostView.
I have an Android application does many things. I would like to be able have it spawn a desktop widget (?) that opens the application to do a specific thing when the widget is clicked.
Can someone give me a road map on how to do this?
As far as i know, Android applications can not add App Widgets to the home screen. Applications can define App Widgets, but user has to add them manually to the home screen.
However it is not hard to launch Activitys from a widget using PendingIntent.
This is called AppWidget and is described in details in Android documentation (both references and step-by-step guide). Note, that it's the user that adds the widget to his launcher screen. AFAIK there's no way to add it to launcher in code (though HTC might have some undocumented ways).