I tried setting various combinations of android:minWidth and android:minHeight on the appwidget-provider element and on my ImageView, but nothing seemed to have an effect... ...okay I've just worked out why - obvious in retrospect - the minimum dimensions specified by the appwidget provider are only applied when the widget is first added to the host.
I'd tested it without removing the widget and re-adding it. Tom. 2009/4/15 Jeffrey Sharkey <[email protected]> > > Awesome, great to hear people are jumping into it. :) > > For performance, the one thing to keep in mind is that each widget > update will spin up your process, which is somewhat expensive. (So > you probably want to avoid updating more often than once per hour to > help save battery.) Also, while pushing bitmaps across RemoteViews is > possible, it /is/ expensive. We experimented with pushing modified > full-size album art to a larger desktop widget and started triggering > ANRs in other foreground apps because it was so expensive. > > One lightweight method to write a clock would be to use a combination > of animated/leveled drawables. Using an example of a single digit > from a base-10 clock, you might have something like this: > > <level-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/ > android"> > <item android:maxLevel="0"> > <animation-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/ > res/android" android:oneshot="false"> > <item android:drawable="@drawable/digit0" > android:duration="60000" /> > <item android:drawable="@drawable/digit1" > android:duration="60000" /> > ... > <item android:drawable="@drawable/digit9" > android:duration="60000" /> > </animation-list> > </item> > ... > <item android:maxLevel="5"> > <animation-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/ > res/android" android:oneshot="true"> > <item android:drawable="@drawable/digit5" > android:duration="60000" /> > ... > <item android:drawable="@drawable/digit9" > android:duration="60000" /> > </animation-list> > </item> > </level-list> > > Where the levels would be used when performing a clock update mid- > cycle. Then, performing an exact update at an hour edge to start it > down the full 0-9 repeating cycle. Each of the digits above lasts for > a full minute before changing, so you would bump that to 600000ms for > the minute 10's digit. And updating the hour digits manually each > hour might work nicely. > > However, I'm not sure if it the animated drawable will correctly > "catch up" if you leave the screen for a period of time, as it might > continue the animation where you left off. Worth peeking into. :) > > > Also is there a way for thewidgetprovider to know (receive a hint > > for) the size at which thewidgetwill be rendered? This is useful in > > this instance since one doesn't want to make the bitmap any larger > > than necessary. > > There isn't right now, but if you use drawables defined using <shape> > instead of bitmaps, it should scale nicely. > > > A final question: is there a way for a provider to request that a > > wedget be 'oversized' (like the search bar or media control)? > > When you say oversized, you mean filling multiple cells? Setting the > minimum size should let you take up multiple cells. Here's a quick > equation that should work: > > Minimum size in dip = (Number of cells * 74dip) - 2dip > > j > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
