I think that only works though if the service is an inner class of the AppWidgetProvider...
On Oct 2, 12:32 am, Paul Turchenko <[email protected]> wrote: > Now that you have a RemoteViews, you can send data to widget. Make > necessary calls on RemoteViews before calling manager.updateAppWidget > (). This approach should 100% work. > > On Oct 2, 2:42 am, sdphil <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm trying to do this in my service, and it never makes any calls into > > my app widget... > > > @Override > > public void onStart(Intent intent, int startId) { > > super.onStart(intent, startId); > > > Context context = (Context) this; > > String packageName = context.getPackageName(); > > > RemoteViews updateViews = new RemoteViews( packageName, > > R.layout.appwidget); > > > ComponentName thisWidget = new ComponentName(this, > > MyAppWidgetProvider.class); > > > AppWidgetManager manager = AppWidgetManager.getInstance(this); > > > manager.updateAppWidget(thisWidget, updateViews); > > > } > > > On Oct 1, 3:10 pm, Paul Turchenko <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Just retrieve appwidgetprovider and use RemoteViews to do that > > > > On Oct 2, 12:19 am, sdphil <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > ping. any thoughts? > > > > > On Sep 30, 7:01 pm, sdphil <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > From a service that's running, how do I send an event or an intent to > > > > > an app widget that is just sitting their idle... > > > > > > tia. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
