Im calling it from the IntentService onHandleIntent method which
should run in its own worker thread as the apidocs explain.

It works on the emulator.
However on the Nexus One i get the nullpointer exception on calling
manager.updateAppWidget ...
See the stacktrace in a previous post.

On Jul 14, 3:12 pm, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Kostya Vasilyev <[email protected]> wrote:
> > From what thread are you ultimately calling
>
> > AppWidgetManager.updateAppWidget
>
> > ?
>
> > It has to be the UI thread, I think you should check to make sure.
>
> No, it doesn't. I have a few examples where updating the app widget
> from any thread is fine, such as the one I linked to earlier:
>
> http://github.com/commonsguy/cw-advandroid/tree/master/AppWidget/Micr...
>
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