Is your app linking against a shared library with <uses-library> in your
manifest?  If so, this is probably the bug I responded to the other day,
that in the case where a widget receiver is the first thing launched into a
process we don't correctly initialize its shared libraries.

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Hugh <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> As an exercise I attempted to add an AppWidgetProvider-derived class
> to one of our existing Android applications. When the widget is
> created and appears on the home screen, the output from adb logcat
> notes:
>
> W/ActivityManager(   58): Unable to launch app com.mycompany.myapp/
> 10042 for broadcast Intent
> { action=android.appwidget.action.APPWIDGET_ENABLED comp=
> {com.mycompany.myapp/com.mycompany.myapp.MyAppWidgetProvider} }:
> process is bad
>
> This output comes from around line 10814 in ActivityManagerService
> (looking at cupcake on git). This is running on an ADP 1.5, FWIW.
>
> The same AppWidget code, once separated from the main application's
> project and put into its own simple project, runs as expected, so I
> know my manifest entries/XML/Java are all as they should be.
>
> Has anyone else run into this, or perhaps can the Android team comment
> on what aspect of my application might be preventing the AM from
> starting up the process when the widget is added to the home screen?
>
> TIA!
>
> >
>


-- 
Dianne Hackborn
Android framework engineer
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