I am developing an Android app with a homescreen widget, which is an imageButton, and i want the image of the button to change after its been pressed. I have tried selector in an xml file, to change the image of the button, but it changes it only when it is pressed, but it goes back when its released.
I want it to change image after it was pressed and when the code inside the WidgetProvider is executed, it changes the image back to the default one.
I tried to do it programatically(in onRecieve() method), I guess it should be something with RemoteViews but whatever i try, it doesnt work.
Could someone help my with this? I saw many people asking about it, but most of the posts were either pretty old or the solutions were not working for me.
Thank you :)
Normally you'd set the image on the surface of the ImageButton using the setImageResource method (ImageButton inherits it from ImageView), but that method isn't available for RemoteViews.
RemoteViews offers a corresponding setImageViewResource method that does what you want (as well as setImageViewBitmap and setImageViewUri depending on how you'd like to provide the image data).
The code to set the image (say, within your BroadcastReceiver's onReceive method) would look something like this:
#Override
public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
int appWidgetId = intent.getIntExtra("appWidgetId", -1);
RemoteViews views = new RemoteViews(context.getPackageName(), R.layout.main);
views.setImageViewResource(R.id.imageButton1, R.drawable.awesome_image);
AppWidgetManager appWidgetManager = AppWidgetManager.getInstance(context);
appWidgetManager.updateAppWidget(appWidgetId, views);
}
Note that the code above assumes you've added the id of the widget to be manipulated as an extra to the broadcast intent (wrapped in a PendingIntent that is sent when the user clicks the ImageButton) using the key "appWidgetId". You'll most likely want to do that in the onUpdate method of your AppWidgetProvider, like so:
#Override
public void onUpdate(Context context, AppWidgetManager appWidgetManager, int[] appWidgetIds) {
for (int i = 0; i < appWidgetIds.length; i++) {
int appWidgetId = appWidgetIds[i];
Intent intent = new Intent ("YourActionHere");
intent.putExtra("appWidgetId", appWidgetId);
PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(context, i, intent, 0);
RemoteViews views = new RemoteViews(context.getPackageName(), R.layout.main);
views.setImageViewResource(R.id.imageButton1, R.drawable.initial_image);
views.setOnClickPendingIntent(R.id.imageButton1, pendingIntent);
appWidgetManager.updateAppWidget(appWidgetId, views);
}
}
A simple but not elegant way is:
boolean isButtonSelected = false;
..
button.setOnClickListener(buttonListener);
..
OnClickListener buttonListener = new OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View arg0) {
if(isButtonSelected ){
isButtonSelected = false;
button.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.buttonOff); // or setImageResource(..);
} else{
isButtonSelected = true;
button.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.buttonOn);
}
}
};
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I am new to Android Development and im stuck with a Problem.
I hope you guys can help me ;)
Im am working on an Appwidget, a remoteview with a linearlayout
that is containing multiple imageviews.
I worked myself through some tutorials and examples and
i was able to build up a first app , that detects a clicked imageview to open a specific installed app, or to change the imageresource of some Imageviews.
Now my Problem is that i want to animate the images when the button is clicked.
I made a drawableAnimation, but then i read that remoteviews dont support these.
So my Idea was to change the pictures manually with a little break between
For Example:
change imageview
0.1 seconds wait
change imageview
0.1 seconds wait
change imageview
0.1 seconds wait
change imageview
So now i read some about Sleep(), handlers, and adapterviewflipper (none of it i was able to implement) and i really dont know which way to go.
Here is the code of my Appwidgetprovider
public class MyWidgetProvider extends AppWidgetProvider {
#Override
public void onUpdate(Context context, AppWidgetManager appWidgetManager,
int[] appWidgetIds) {
RemoteViews remoteViews = new RemoteViews(context.getPackageName(), R.layout.widget_demo);
// Button To Change Imageview
remoteViews.setOnClickPendingIntent(R.id.B1, buildButtonPendingIntent(context));
//Buttons to open some installed apps
remoteViews.setOnClickPendingIntent(R.id.T1, getPendingIntent(context, 1));
remoteViews.setOnClickPendingIntent(R.id.T2, getPendingIntent(context, 2));
pushWidgetUpdate(context, remoteViews);
}
public static PendingIntent buildButtonPendingIntent(Context context) {
Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.setAction("com.appwidgettest.intent.action.UPDATEUI");
return PendingIntent.getBroadcast(context, 0, intent, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);
}
public static PendingIntent getPendingIntent(Context context, int btnId) {
// starts a htc radio app as standart and if button 2 is clicked it starts
// chrome browser just did this for testing the packagemanager
PackageManager pm = context.getPackageManager();
String gg = "com.htc.fm";
if (btnId==2){gg = "com.android.chrome";
}
Intent intentt= pm.getLaunchIntentForPackage(gg);
PendingIntent pi = PendingIntent.getActivity(context, 0, intentt, 0);
return pi;
}
public static void pushWidgetUpdate(Context context, RemoteViews remoteViews) {
ComponentName myWidget = new ComponentName(context, MyWidgetProvider.class);
AppWidgetManager manager = AppWidgetManager.getInstance(context);
manager.updateAppWidget(myWidget, remoteViews);
}
}
and the Broadcastreciever which is working so far.
public class MyWidgetIntentReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver {
#Override
public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
if(intent.getAction().equals("com.appwidgettest.intent.action.UPDATEUI")){
updateWidgetPictureAndButtonListener(context);
}
}
private void updateWidgetPictureAndButtonListener(Context context) {
final RemoteViews remoteViews = new RemoteViews(context.getPackageName(), R.layout.widget_demo);
// Here i Change The Imageviews!
remoteViews.setImageViewResource(R.id.M3, R.drawable.image1);
//here i need a short time sleep of 0.2 seconds for example
remoteViews.setImageViewResource(R.id.M2, R.drawable.image2);
//here too
remoteViews.setImageViewResource(R.id.M1, R.drawable.image3);
// Here to set the Button Listeners
remoteViews.setOnClickPendingIntent(R.id.B1, MyWidgetProvider.buildButtonPendingIntent(context));
remoteViews.setOnClickPendingIntent(R.id.T2, MyWidgetProvider.getPendingIntent(context,2));
remoteViews.setOnClickPendingIntent(R.id.T1, MyWidgetProvider.getPendingIntent(context,1));
MyWidgetProvider.pushWidgetUpdate(context.getApplicationContext(), remoteViews);
}
}
I am really sorry for my bad english^^and i hope you could understand most of it :P
And if you have a better idea for the Title Please tell me
Help me Please!!
Regards T.R.Salvatore
If you are looking for sprite animation when a button is clicked, see this example https://code.google.com/p/mario-coin-block/. It causes a series of images to be displayed like a sprite animation.
If you simply want something like a slideshow, use the AdapterViewFlipper. I've created a similar app widget: https://github.com/mridang/appwidget-ilmaana
I am trying to make a widget for my app, and I want it to be with a buttonm progress bar and text view, which would later be changed, so I need to somehow work with the views themselves, like I can from an activity, show a view, hide a view, change a button background etc...
I tried tweaking with the sample code from the Android documentations, but I can only start an activity with this
public class WidgetProvider extends AppWidgetProvider {
#Override
public void onUpdate(Context context, AppWidgetManager appWidgetManager, int[] appWidgetIds) {
super.onUpdate(context, appWidgetManager, appWidgetIds);
final int N = appWidgetIds.length;
for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) {
int appWidgetId = appWidgetIds[i];
Intent intent = new Intent(context, ActivityMain.class);
PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(context, 0, intent, 0);
RemoteViews views = new RemoteViews(context.getPackageName(), R.layout.widget_layout);
views.setOnClickPendingIntent(R.id.sync_button, pendingIntent);
appWidgetManager.updateAppWidget(appWidgetId, views);
}
}
#Override
public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
super.onReceive(context, intent);
}
}
Does the widget need to be connected to an activity in order to make actions (connect to the internet, write in the database, write in the objects of the apps instance (if there is one))? And can I work with views the way I am asking?
Outside of setting on-click PendingIntents on views, there isn't much you can do inside of a widget. The standard recipe is:
Make a PendingIntent that sends a broadcast (PendingIntent.getBroadcast()) and set it on the appropriate view in your widget.
In the BroadcastReceiver that receives the intent, you update the widget to show a spinner and start a Service to do whatever long-running work you want to do (e.g connect to the internet).
Once that work is done, you can update your widget again and remove the spinner.
I created a class that downloads some text from the internet and I want to take that text and update a TextView in my widget. I know that the event (OnDownloadCompleteListener) is getting triggered because I'm Logging it but I can't figure out how to update the TextView from within that event. I know it's a newbie mistake, just not sure what I'm missing.
public class Widget extends AppWidgetProvider{
InternetText internettext; //Handles downloading the text from the internet
RemoteViews views;
public void onUpdate(Context context, AppWidgetManager appWidgetManager, int[] appWidgetIds) {
final int N = appWidgetIds.length;
// Perform this loop procedure for each App Widget that belongs to this provider
for (int i=0; i<N; i++) {
int appWidgetId = appWidgetIds[i];
// Create an Intent to launch ExampleActivity
Intent intent = new Intent(context, MainActivity.class);
PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(context, 0, intent, 0);
// Get the layout for the App Widget and attach an on-click listener
// to the button
views = new RemoteViews(context.getPackageName(), R.layout.widget);
views.setOnClickPendingIntent(R.id.tvWidgetVerse, pendingIntent);
internettext = new InternetText(context);
internettext.setOnDownloadCompleteListener(new OnDownloadCompleteListener() {
#Override
public void onEvent() {
TheText thetext = internettext.downloadedText(); //The text object
Log.i("", "Widget Text Downloaded " + thetext.getText()); //This fires so I know we've downloaded the text
TextStyling textStyle = new TextStyling();
//*****THIS IS WHERE I'M HAVING THE PROBLEM********
views.setTextViewText(R.id.tvWidgetText, Html.fromHtml(textStyle.boldWords(thetext.getText()))); //this never updates
}
});
internettext.getText();
// Tell the AppWidgetManager to perform an update on the current app widget
appWidgetManager.updateAppWidget(appWidgetId, views);
}
}
}
Ok, I figured it out. I have to call appWidgetManager.updateAppWidget() from within the event. I knew it was a no-brainer...
appWidgetManager.updateAppWidget(appWidgetId, views);
which also means I have to make appWidgetManager and appWidgetId final
public void onUpdate(Context context, final AppWidgetManager appWidgetManager, int[] appWidgetIds) {
...
}
When I click on my application widget, instead of going back to the last activity I left open (when going into the home screen), Android restarts my application from scratch.
Is there a way to make that click behave exactly like my app icon, or like the "recent apps manager"?
Here is how I implemented the widget:
public class WidgetLauncher extends AppWidgetProvider {
#Override
public void onUpdate(Context context, AppWidgetManager appWidgetManager, int[] appWidgetIds) {
final int N = appWidgetIds.length;
for (int i=0; i<N; i++) {
int appWidgetId = appWidgetIds[i];
Intent active = new Intent(context, COPD_Main.class);
active.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(context, 0, active, 0);
RemoteViews views = new RemoteViews(context.getPackageName(), R.layout.launch_support);
views.setOnClickPendingIntent(R.id.launch_support_launcher, pendingIntent);
appWidgetManager.updateAppWidget(appWidgetId, views);
}
}
}
PS: I am aware there are several questions around like:
this
but it did not fix my problem at all.
I believe the problem is the Intent flag you are using. Try to use:
active.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_SINGLE_TOP);
isntead of NEW_TASK.
From the docs:
If set, the activity will not be launched if it is already running at
the top of the history stack.
I am trying to create an application with a widget. When the user places the widget on the desktop a listview should come up with a list of items. The user selects an item then the widget is created with the respective text related to that item. For simplicity I am using now an alertdialog. The input text should appear only in the widget I create. It should not appear in the other widgets. How am I supposed to do that? I have not found anyhing about this.
The AppWidgetProvider:
public class MyWidgetProvider extends AppWidgetProvider {
private static final String ACTION_CLICK = "ACTION_CLICK";
#Override
public void onUpdate(Context context, AppWidgetManager appWidgetManager, int[] appWidgetIds) {
Log.i("INFO", "AppWidgetProvider");
ComponentName thisWidget = new ComponentName(context, MyWidgetProvider.class);
int[] allWidgetIds = appWidgetManager.getAppWidgetIds(thisWidget);
//Intent intent = new Intent(context.getApplicationContext(), UpdateWidgetService.class);
//intent.putExtra(AppWidgetManager.EXTRA_APPWIDGET_IDS, allWidgetIds);
//context.startService(intent);
Intent intentA = new Intent(context.getApplicationContext(), NoteListToWidget.class);
intentA.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
context.startActivity(intentA);
}
}
The service:
public class UpdateWidgetService extends Service {
public static String ACTION_WIDGET_CONFIGURE = "ConfigureWidget";
public static String ACTION_WIDGET_RECEIVER = "ActionReceiverWidget";
String value;
Dialog dialog_newitem;
#Override
public void onStart(Intent intent, int startId) {
Log.i("INFO", "UpdateWidgetService");
AppWidgetManager appWidgetManager = AppWidgetManager.getInstance(this.getApplicationContext());
int[] allWidgetIds = intent.getIntArrayExtra(AppWidgetManager.EXTRA_APPWIDGET_IDS);
ComponentName thisWidget = new ComponentName(getApplicationContext(), MyWidgetProvider.class);
int[] allWidgetIds2 = appWidgetManager.getAppWidgetIds(thisWidget);
for (int widgetId : allWidgetIds) {
int number = (new Random().nextInt(100));
String v = GlobalVars.getValue();
RemoteViews remoteViews = new RemoteViews(this.getApplicationContext().getPackageName(), R.layout.widget_layout);
//remoteViews.setTextViewText(R.id.update, "Random: " + String.valueOf(number));
remoteViews.setTextViewText(R.id.update, v);
Intent configIntent = new Intent(this, Notepad.class);
configIntent.setAction(ACTION_WIDGET_CONFIGURE);
PendingIntent configPendingIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(this, REQUEST_CODE_ONE, configIntent, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);
remoteViews.setOnClickPendingIntent(R.id.widgetlayout, configPendingIntent);
appWidgetManager.updateAppWidget(widgetId, remoteViews);
}
stopSelf();
super.onStart(intent, startId);
}
#Override
public IBinder onBind(Intent intent) {
return null;
}
}
This is the Activity with the AlertDialog (the latter listview):
public class NoteListToWidget extends Activity {
Dialog dialog_newitem;
EditText et_newitem;
String value;
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
dialog_newitem = new Dialog(NoteListToWidget.this);
dialog_newitem.setContentView(R.layout.dialog_productlists_grp_capitalized);
dialog_newitem.setTitle("Select");
dialog_newitem.setCancelable(true);
et_newitem = (EditText) dialog_newitem.findViewById(R.id.et_item_name);
Button btn_Save = (Button) dialog_newitem.findViewById(R.id.btn_save_pr);
btn_Save.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
value = et_newitem.getText().toString();
GlobalVars.setValue(value);
dialog_newitem.dismiss();
/*
Intent serviceIntent = new Intent();
serviceIntent.setAction("com.myapp.app.UpdateWidgetService");
startService(serviceIntent);
*/
Intent intent = new Intent(NoteListToWidget.this, com.myapp.app.UpdateWidgetService.class);
startService(intent);
}
});
Button btn_Cancel = (Button) dialog_newitem.findViewById(R.id.btn_cancel_pr);
btn_Cancel.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
dialog_newitem.dismiss();
}
});
dialog_newitem.show();
}
}
I don't how and from where should I call the NoteListToWidget activity and how to make this whole thing work.
First of all it is impossible to answer your question in full. This is because it seems you are missing a lot of things about how app-widgets are working, so you must read more about them. However I will give you a place to start.
The onUpdate method of the AppWidgetProvider is called each time an app-widget that it is already placed on the desktop needs an update. That is, even if you manage to display your list from there and the user cancels the operation there is NO way to remove your app-widget from the onUpdate method.
Furthermore when the onUpdate method finishes the AppWidgetProvider is destroyed, so even if you manage to display your list from there there is NO way to get the items that user selected. Long story short, you canNOT do it from onUpdate method and you canNOT do it by this approach.
However, you CAN do it by using a configuration activity in a specified point of the app-widget's creation process but this cannot be answered in the context of your question because you must first understand how the app-widget system works in Android. The best place to start is this link. I had the same problems with my first app-widget application (and almost the same concerns with you) but then I started to read and read, finally after 1.5 months I 've managed to make something like the thing you want to do. So don't say
How am I supposed to do that? I have not found anyhing about this
and start reading, this is the life with Android. It's all in the above link, there are also very good open-source projects in google code like this weather widget which allows the user to configure it BEFORE it is placed on the desktop.
Hope this helps...