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.
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I want to show WebView element inside home screen widget in Android. Where I gonna show HTML window from specific web-page. Already tried to make one using RemoteViews, but according to docs I can not use all view elements inside RemoteView.
Is any possibility to somehow render HTML page inside home screen widget in android ?
I want to show WebView element inside home screen widget in Android
That is not possible, sorry.
Is any possibility to somehow render HTML page inside home screen widget in android ?
Not in any practical fashion.
Actually I was seeking for a solution to display gauge widget in Android AppWidget.
Inorder to display Gauge package in Home screen widgets like weather widgets in our mobile home screens.
I recommend you to take a look at this documentation.
It explains how to achieve what you were looking for.
After you make the skeleton then you can use the custom gauge widgets.
An app widget uses RemoteViews for describing its UI, and RemoteViews supports a limited number of built-in widgets. You cannot use a custom View subclass directly. After all, your app is not rendering the UI — whatever app has the home screen implementation is rendering the UI, and that app does not have your custom View subclass.
The closest thing that you can do is to put an ImageView in your app widget's layout, then populate that ImageView with bitmaps that depict what you want to show in terms of a gauge UI.
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.
I've problem, that i want to create a home screen widget with listview inside, which should be scrollable. I read on docs page, that listview is only supported in remoteview from 3.0 android.
But still i think, this is not completely true, or i am missing something. Ok, when i tried do add listview to my home screen diget, i get error: class not allowed to be inflated android.widget.listview. BUT on my phone i have android 2.2.3 and i am able to add home screen widget (its some email application widget) which shows SCROLLABLE list of my emails, look here:
http://i50.tinypic.com/2gslq2q.png
And my question is: How is this possible and how to do it, in which way? Im googling few hours, but have absolutely no idea how is this possible (maybe dynamically generate items int vertical linear layout and create manualy scroller on right side, but it sound terrible complicated).![enter image description here][1]
EDIT: maybe its possible to generate long list of items into linear layout and detecting, if user is moving up or down with finger...
I read on docs page, that listview is only supported in remoteview from 3.0 android.
Correct.
i am able to add home screen widget (its some email application widget) which shows SCROLLABLE list of my emails
That is not an app widget. That is a feature of that home screen implementation.
maybe its possible to generate long list of items into linear layout and detecting, if user is moving up or down with finger...
No, sorry.
possible duplicate,
hello all,
I am not getting the reason that why ToggleButton was not available for application widget (Home screen widget).
I have google it but not getting any reason. Does anybody knows the reason
Thanks
App Widget layouts are based on RemoteView, which does not support every kind of layout or view widget:
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/appwidgets/index.html#CreatingLayout