Google Play Music app adds a special lock-screen widget dynamically when playing music (on Jelly Bean), and removes it after exit. This widget cannot be removed manually by dragging, and when I unlock my phone, it is always the top one besides other lock-screen widget.
How to implement this special dynamic lock-screen widget? I can only find documents about regular lock-screen widget, but not for this.
I was looking for the same thing and found out this is done by using the RemoteControlClient, check #CommonsWare answer here What is RemoteControlClient in Android 4.0?
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I would like to know if my idea is possible and to get some insights into how I could achieve that.
My idea: implement my app widget into the Android Keyboard (OnePlus 7) like in the following pictures:
Android Keyboard Widget
Widgets View
Cheers!
There is no Android keyboard. They keyboard is an app. Not every OEM ships with the same keyboard app. Even of those that do, these apps are, by and large, not customizable. And that's ignoring the fact that the user can download entirely different keyboard apps from the play store.
I want to force a widget to appear on the lock screen in Android.
Any ideas or code examples?
Thanks in advance.
First, the standard Android lockscreen framework only supports app widgets from Android 4.1 through 4.4, which is a steadily shrinking portion of the Android device ecosystem.
Second, there is no programmatic means, in standard Android, to force the user to add an app widget to the home screen or to the lockscreen.
As there is an exciting feature in Android 4.2 to place app widget on Lock-Screen.
I have implemented it for my app, but I have to choose my widget to enable it on
lock screen.
But I want to enable and disable widget from my app. That is, if user click on
check-box then automatically widget for that app should enable on lock-screen and
is user un-check then automatically widget will disable from lock-screen.
please help me.
For folks finding this via Google,
there are some workarounds that may work for you or may not, depending on your specific Android configuration. (See also this question and this question.)
As CommonsWare pointed out, beginning with Android 5.0, a media style notification can be dynamically added to the lock screen.
This is not possible. The user is welcome to add your lockscreen widget if the user chooses to, from the lockscreen.
I am implementing a Music player Application. for that Application i want to implement a playback widget that stays on their lock screens and allows them to interact with the app.
i have found that it is possible in Android 4.2 Api. but some of the music player application can provide this feature in above Android 3.0
So that i have searched a lots of thing to implementing an screen lock widget that support from Android 3.0, but i can't found anything about it.
Any one have a solution or step, how to making lock screen widget that support from Android 3.0. ?
waiting for you reply.
Thanks in Advance.
You can make it into an activity instead of a widget and use certain flags such as FLAG_SHOW_WHEN_LOCKED and FLAG_DISMISS_KEYGUARD to achieve this I think. This thread will help you:
Android Lock Screen Widget
I made an app that had two buttons in a custom notification whenever it was displayed. I set up an OnClickPendinIntent for each of the buttons, so that they could perform 2 different actions based on which button was pressed. My app worked flawlessly on an AOSP Froyo ROM, but once I upgraded my phone to Gingerbread, the buttons are no longer clickable. Basically, no matter where you press on the notification, it only registers as the notification being clicked. The buttons are being completely ignored.
Is this something that just needs to be coded differently in Gingerbread? Or did the functionality get removed for some reason? And is there any solution to re-enable this functionality?
Thanks.
Or did the functionality get removed for some reason?
The functionality was never there in the first place. You cannot put interactive elements on a Notification's RemoteViews. Some devices would support this, but it's not part of the platform.