Jon, you're right, there isn't a direct way of including an EditText into a widget.
The major reason for this is we don't have a good way of identifying how that text should be sent back across a PendingIntent. To solve this from the framework side, one approach would to add the text to the extras bundle with the R.id of the EditText as the key, and using Intent.fillIn() when sending the PendingIntent. But then we run into issues when there is a button that should also trigger an action: do we bundle any+all EditText values with that intent as well? Instead of solving this problem with the hack described above, we're holding off until we come up with a better solution. A workaround in the meantime might be to have the PendingIntent launch an activity with Theme.Dialog or Theme.Panel that contains an EditText. j On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 8:00 PM, Jon Colverson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello. > > I've been looking at the new 1.5_pre SDK today, and the new AppWidget > API in particular. I was hoping to write a widget for posting to > Twitter as part of my nanoTweeter app. The interface I had in mind > would look very similar to the Google Search widget, with an EditText > and a submit Button, but as far as I can see there's no way to get at > user input in a RemoteViews. Is that right, or am I overlooking > something? > > Thanks. > > -- > Jon > > > > -- Jeff Sharkey [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
