On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Jake Colman <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> "KV" == Kostya Vasilyev <[email protected]> writes: > > KV> As far as Android is concerned, IntentService knows nothing about > KV> home screen widgets. > > KV> Since you know which widget receivers' onUpdate was called, pass > KV> this information to the service (e.g. by setting an intent > KV> extra). > > I implemented two Broadcast Receivers, one for each widget size. Both > receivers have the same set of intent filters. If I instantiate just > one size widget and broadcast an intent, both receivers respond to that > intent - even though only one size widget has been instantiated. > > Does this make sense? Should the "large" receiver respond to intents if > only the small widget has been instantiated?
Sure. To paraphrase Kostya, as far as Android is concerned, intent filters know nothing about home screen app widgets. If you have one BroadcastReceiver in your manifest with an intent filter, and you send a broadcast matching that filter, one BroadcastReceiver will respond. If you have two BroadcastReceivers in your manifest with the same intent filter, and you send a broadcast matching that filter, two BroadcastReceivers will respond. If you have 1,337 BroadcastReceivers in your manifest with the same intent filter, and you send a broadcast matching that filter, 1,337 BroadcastReceivers will respond. This begs the question of why you have multiple AppWidgetProviders. You only need one. To tell small from large, call getAppWidgetInfo() on the AppWidgetManager inside your onUpdate() or wherever. That will return a Java object mirroring your <appwidget-provider> XML element. Use the minWidth and minHeight values, or possibly the initialLayout value, to determine which size it is. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android Training in London: http://bit.ly/smand1, http://bit.ly/smand2 -- 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
