I'm curious; what's in your widget? Is it a simple layout or a complex layout? A couple of us are seeing parts of our widgets become phantom on orientation changes (see here: http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/292892b7888bdfc5).
On Aug 3, 4:03 pm, Derek <[email protected]> wrote: > Are you sure forcing portrait mode for configuration activity could > solve the problem ? > I've tried to add: android:screenOrientation="portrait" to my activity > and the problem is still here. > The activity is displayed in portrait whatever the orientation but the > phantom widget bug is still here. > > On Jul 13, 9:15 pm, Jeff Sharkey <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Thanks for catching this--it's a known issue and an engineer has been > > assigned to it. :) There really isn't a good workaround in 1.5, > > other than forcing the configuration activity into portrait mode or > > asking users to rotate before returning. > > > j > > > On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Pablo Pera<[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I'd like to report a bug we just found while writing a widget. > > > > Summary: There is a widget installed, that defines a configuration > > > activity. If the user changes the orientation while they are in the > > > configuration activity, and they finish that activity in a different > > > orientation that they started, the widget does NOT appear in the home > > > screen after the configuration is done. > > > > How to reproduce: have a minimal widget, with a configuration activity > > > that contains a button, which correctly updates the App Widget when it > > > is clicked (as explained > > > inhttp://developer.android.com/guide/topics/appwidgets/index.html#Confi...). > > > Add a new instance of the widget, so the config screen shows up. > > > Change the orientation once. Click on the button. Your widget does not > > > appear in the home screen. (Ouch.) > > > > If this has already been reported, or if there's a better way to > > > submit a bug report, please let me know! > > > > Thanks, > > > > Pablo > > > -- > > Jeff Sharkey > > [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
