Hello, my app Make Your Clock Widget (https://market.android.com/details? id=net.hubalek.android.makeyourclock.pro) is generating widget content as custom drawn bitmap.
As you probably know there is (not specified in documentation but existing) limit on size of bitmap sent via RemoteViews. It was possible to live with it (I just didn't allow bigger widgets) but with HD displays this stops working as even 4x2 widget contains too big bitmap as 294 wide * 146 high * 1.6^2 (density of SGS display) was bellow limit but 294 * 146 * 1.97^2 (density of Galaxy Nexus) is above limit. There exist following workarounds but I'm not happy with them: 1) Create bitmap with Config.ARGB_4444?This causes banding for gradients and also antialiasing does not look superior. And also Config.ARGB_4444 is deprecated. 2) Generate bitmap in lower resolution and let layout upscale bitmap to appropriate size? This counteracts to idea of HD displays that should provide superior graphics quality 3) Created content provider that provides bitmap for RemoveViews bitmap and use method setImageViewUri()? BTW: Splitting bitmap into multiple chunks does now work as undocumented limit is for whole RemoteView update. So my questions/conclusions: 1) What Google recommends to do? -> Don't allow smaller widgets than 4x2 for HD displays? -> Render them in poor quality? -> Use content provider? 2) I'm really unhappy with widgets API and behavior Why widget behavior didn't change since Android 1.5 when there was single core/MDPI only devices. It reminds me Bill Gate's 640 kB or RAM is enough :-/ Why I don't get any Exception when something fails? Why there is only LogCat message that can't be handled correctly? Why there is not meaningful documentation about setImageBitmap() method limitations in JavaDoc? Thanks Tom -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
