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.
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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'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.).
What is the approach to creating an app like Microsoft's Next Lock Screen (Android) app?
I checked out the github project below only to find out that TYPE_KEYGUARD_DIALOG has been deprecated.
https://github.com/Joisar/LockScreenApp
I got to create a home screen that gets triggered every time the power button is pressed but the back button and home button do not disappear.
You can use the Adenda SDK for that. It essentially extends the Android stack to let you build a custom lock screen with relative ease.
I'm affiliated with Adenda, btw, for full disclosure.
So I'm looking to build a widget that sits on the homescreen and take up as much of the screen as is possible for a widget to get the most screen space. I have experience building normal apps and already starting building this app as a non-widget. How difficult would it be for me to either re-build or change it into a widget?
Would I be able to use the same basic code from my original app with modifications so that it could function as a widget on the home screen?
here i want to launch Android Home Screen
Can anybody tell me where to find information about how to write a custom home-screen application? and i want to remove android default home screen. and add my custom home screen code to source of android.
So very first i have to make application which launch as a home screen so any body can give me some tips or guidelines?
Thanks
create a home application , which is nothing but an application with home intent . Samples (../android-sdk-linux/samples/android-8) have a good example named "Home" .
once app install when user will click on homeScreen he will be prompted for select home among existing home apps (including your app too) , once user set it as default this will not be asked again .