i am currently working on getting the list of widgets that are present on home screen, i want to write a code that can create a list of all the widgets present on home screen.
googled it but no luck!
any help is appreciated!
thanks
There are dozens, perhaps hundreds, of home screen implementations. Perhaps one will have an API that will let you accomplish this, but there is no standard API for this.
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I want to create a app widget in my desktop and let it support full screen and webview, but I can't find any solution Click Here:
So I am wondering whether there is a way to let app widget support full screen and webview?Or it's designed to not support such function?
I don't think it worth any down vote , in a company , do my best to meet product's requirements should be down vote???? I know it's a very strange question , but I just need others to tell me I can't do this not because I don't have enough skill！Even the official documentation tell me it's almost impossible , but I still ask in Stack Overflow, I don't want to give it up so quick.
Widget has to be placed on launcher and therefore cannot be full screen. If you absolutely need one, implementing your own launcher that can add full screen widget to it may works (I haven't tried this). You probably cannot hide notification bar with it though.
Unfortunately, widget does not support webview according to the documation.
I know i'm going to die as maybe i didn't place this post correctly, also i'm not a developer, only a graphic designer.
I'm looking for some advise, hope someone could help me with that.
Imagine that you launch your app, and within that there is a button that says "Install widget". You press that button, then the app closes and a widget appears on the home screen.
Is that possible?
i've been reading that before 4.2 i wasn't, but something changed from then. Problem is that i have no more information about this, and also i don't know if it changed over time.
I'm behind the graphic design of a widget. The idea is that you first download the app, which will help you to configure the widget, and then you have to manually place the widget in place.
They are afraid that some people wont understand, and they will cease trying.
I only would like to know if this is possible, (or something similar) and if someone knows any APP that does this thingie.
Note: APPS like "Swiftkey" guides you in the process of installing your keyboard. it asks you to go to a determinate place of the phone settings, and gives you a shortcut to that place so you don't have to go by yourself.
It would be amazing. To directly place a widget o to guide them trhough shortcuts.
Many many thanks in advance!
Is that possible?
No. The user installs the app widget through the home screen.
The idea is that you first download the app, which will help you to configure the widget, and then you have to manually place the widget in place.
That is also not possible. The flow is that the user chooses the app widget in the home screen, places the widget in place, then if you have a configuration activity defined, you will get a chance to help the user configure the app widget (e.g., to choose the city for the weather report that the app widget should display).
APPS like "Swiftkey" guides you in the process of installing your keyboard. it asks you to go to a determinate place of the phone settings, and gives you a shortcut to that place so you don't have to go by yourself.
Input method editors (a.k.a., soft keyboards) are configured through the Settings app, and therefore there is a consistent place to direct users towards. App widgets are configured through the home screen, and different home screens can implement that process in different ways, so there is no standard spot to direct the users towards.
I have an app which is mainly two things: a widget that can be added to the hone screen, and a how-to-add-widget activity made out of images.
As I noticed, there are different ways to add widgets to the home screen depending on the device/android version. So, my activity's guided images will be different according to the device.
Do you have suggestions in how I can display the right how-to in the right device?
Is there a programmatic way to open device's widgets list to the user?
Thanks.
I'm wondering if it's possible to see which shortcuts and widgets are on a users home screen, and what size they are.
I'm not trying to delete shortcuts or in any way change the users home screen.
No, Its not possible. But if you design your own launcher then you can put this logic in it :)
Nope, its launcher depended...
I'm currently developing a simple android HomeScreen with just 1 page.
I would like to know how to enable my HomeScreen to run and display widgets like this free widget.
Thanks so much in advance!
The best way you can use it, just get sources of Launcher application and find how AppWidgetHost added to view hierarchy and how it is maintaining AppWidgetHostView instances.
Launcher sources you can get here:
Laucnher.git
The home screen widgets are added by users based on the free-space they have and where they want the widget to be placed in their home-screen. As a developer you can only provide a widget, but adding that to the home-screen is purely in the control of the user.