Yeah, your Activity could even use the transparent theme so it appears as if its just on top of the wallpaper same as a widget. I believe the Google Search widget is just a drawable and when clicked it opens a Search activity and replace that drawable with a EditText at some point mid-animation into the Search Activity.
On Mar 30, 4:46 pm, Paul Turchenko <[email protected]> wrote: > Call actyvity when user clicks on your app widget and capture input > from there > > On Mar 26, 7:32 am, And-Rider <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > so is there any alternate way to get user input in form of a text from > > the widget other than using EditText?.. > > > If i make TextView as editable it shows a keyboard but i am not able > > to see any inputs from the user. > > > On Mar 26, 2:50 am, Paul Turchenko <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Well, google's search widget doesn't show edittext box. You can prove > > > it by digging into it with hierarchy viewer. For now, you can't have > > > EditText in app widget (at least for default android's home launcher) > > > > On Mar 25, 4:25 pm, And-Rider <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I want to create a custom widget for my application which should be > > > > used for doing search internally in my application.But i am not able > > > > to place an Edit text control inside a widget.While browsing further i > > > > found that Edittext box was not included for creating custom widgets > > > > >http://developer.android.com/intl/de/guide/topics/appwidgets/index.ht... > > > > >http://developingandroid.blogspot.com/2009/09/simple-home-screen-widg... > > > > > I was surprised to see google's search widget showing an edittext > > > > box.Is there a way to add an edittext box in a widget...? -- 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 To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
