How did they code the Google Search Widget? Is that a "hack"? On Apr 16, 7:47 am, Jeff Sharkey <jshar...@android.com> wrote: > 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 <jjc1...@gmail.com> 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 > jshar...@android.com
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