OK, thanks Mark - I didn't think about the IPC call thing. I understand that supporting animations might end up with loads of widgets singing and dancing all over the home screen screaming for attention. However, I do think many widgets would benefit from the functionality of showing some simple animation while some kind of action (like a user-triggered synchronization) takes place.
Meanwhile, I guess I'll just plaster a "Wait" message over the widget... On Oct 18, 10:17 pm, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > westmeadboy wrote: > > I'm sure there must be a workaround. For example, having a drawable > > for each of the rotated positions and setting each drawable in turn > > (with some fixed time gap) on the same ImageView... > > That would be very battery intensive. Bear in mind that the home screen > runs in a separate process than does your AppWidgetProvider (for > security reasons), and so *every* change to your UI results in a remote > IPC call. App widget UIs are designed to be updated every tens of > minutes, not every tens of milliseconds. > > I recommend finding some alternative UI model than something that > requires an animation on an app widget. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons > Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > Android App Developer Books:http://commonsware.com/books.html --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
