>>>>> "MM" == Mark Murphy <[email protected]> writes:
MM> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Jake Colman <[email protected]> wrote: >> My service no longer updates the widget and the widget's data area >> remains blank. This indicates (at least to me but I'm still >> learning) that either the widget is not getting its notification >> to start the service or the service is ignoring its start method. MM> I'd add some logging or breakpoints. Depending on how you are MM> using AppWidgetManager from your service, it's also possible that MM> the service is running but just not updating the app widget MM> (e.g., you're using the ID-based app widget update and the ID MM> changed). Maybe that's the problem. Here is how I am doing the update: RemoteViews updateViews = buildUpdate(this); ComponentName thisWidget = new ComponentName(this, ZMAppWidget.class); AppWidgetManager manager = AppWidgetManager.getInstance(this); manager.updateAppWidget(thisWidget, updateViews); Does this represent an ID-based change? Because I would think that ComponentName thisWidget = new ComponentName(this, ZMAppWidget.class); Would be 'this' instance and not a specific other instance. >> So could it be that the notifications are "confused" between old >> and new instances of the widget? MM> That is decidedly possible. I haven't played around with MM> supporting multiple app widgets much, so I have no idea how MM> stable those app widget IDs are. MM> If this is for your sunrise app widget from your other thread, MM> unless you are supporting monitoring sunrise from multiple MM> geographic locations, I would not worry about supporting multiple MM> app widgets. Use the updateAppWidgets() that just takes a MM> ComponentName and update the lot of 'em in one shot. Except that a future version of the widget will allow for the user to configure whether he wants to see sunrise or sunset or some other astronomical-based time. In that case, I need to be able to support multiple discrete instances of the widget. But that's for a future release; I've much bigger immediate fish to fry! -- Jake Colman -- Android Tinkerer -- 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
