I don't know if this is EXACTLY kosher, but I've overriden the
onRecieve method in my AppWidgetProvider to look like:
@Override
public void onReceive( Context context, Intent intent )
{
this.view = new RemoteViews( context.getPackageName(),
R.layout.widget );
if (intent.getAction().equals( MY_AWESOME_CUSTOM_INTENT ))
{
// DO AWESOME STUFF HERE
}
else
{
super.onReceive( context, intent );
}
ComponentName me = new ComponentName( context, VAWidget.class );
AppWidgetManager.getInstance( context ).updateAppWidget( me,
view );
}
Then I just add the custom intents to the widget's intent-filter in
the manifest as usual.
It has worked every time for me, but I'm wondering if there is a
scenario where it would not be preferable to do it this way?
E
On Nov 4, 1:11 pm, skink <[email protected]> wrote:
> Mark Murphy wrote:
> > skink wrote:
> > > hi,
>
> > > my custom AppWidgetProvider has onUpdate method where i have logic to
> > > update RemoteViews
>
> > > it is not periodically updated by system, but rather, i'd like to
> > > trigger onUpdate if something happens (in one of my app Activities).
> > > both custom AppWidgetProvider and Activities i'd like to trigger
> > > update from run with the same UID
>
> > > i tried some AppWidgetManager's methods, but no luck, finally i ended
> > > with really weird solution: i'm sending broadcast with action
> > > ACTION_APPWIDGET_UPDATE and extras EXTRA_APPWIDGET_IDS which i got
> > > from AppWidgetManager
>
> > > is it a common way of updating AppWidgetProvider?
>
> > You could also just send a broadcast to the provider directly, via the
> > component-name version of the Intent constructor. Look for a null
> > action, or some extra you package in, or something to tell it is your
> > own custom Intent, then do the update work.
>
> thank you Mark,
>
> this is exactly what i'm doing now - sending broadcast directly to my
> AppWidgetProvider by manually creating proper Intent and adding some
> EXTRA_APPWIDGET_IDS extras
>
> yet my impression was that this is not the way one should do: i mean i
> thought there must be some higher level helper method to update
> AppWidgetProvider
>
> pskink
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