[android-beginners] Re: Remote View setString
You can set an attribute only before view's inflation. After view has been inflated, the only thing you can resort to is calling view's method that will change its state. Right now, methods offered by RemoteViews is the only way to communicate with widget. I think you can help us solve your problem if you'd explain in more details what exactly are you to do. On Oct 2, 1:17 am, android learner android.lear...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Paul. That was helpful. In my case, the public method I'm trying to call, does not match with the signature of any of the methods that RemoteView class offers. I guess that explains the error I get. Is there any way to overcome this limitation? Also, I'd like to know if there is any other way to dynamically set an xml attribute through remote view (where none of the RemoteView methods support setting this attribute) Thanks On Oct 1, 4:47 pm, Paul Turchenko paul.turche...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, you can call a public method on widget's views via the remote views as long as it matches signature of 1 of methods that RemoteViews class offers. For example, to set text on the TextView that exists in widget's layout, you can use RemoteViews.setString(R.id.your_view_id, setText, your widget text) or RemoteViews.setTextViewText ((R.id.your_view_id, your widget text). Both are equal, but first one uses reflection. On Oct 2, 12:04 am, android learner android.lear...@gmail.com wrote: Let us keep aside the fact that I'm using a custom view. Consider a normal case, where I am using an existing Android view, for example AnalogClock class in my layout. Is there anyway I can call a public method of AnalogClock Class through the remote view? I need to dynamically update something in the AnalogClock and that needs to be reflected in the remote view. Any help would be really appreciated. Thanks On Oct 1, 1:14 pm, android learner android.lear...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Mark. Yes it is my own view class (like a button). But it works fine in RemoteView as long as I do not attempt to set anything in my view class. But one of the parameters in this view class is dynamic and I need to set it from the Remote View (like we do a setText for a button). That is where I am stuck at. I have a public method in my view class which takes a string parameter and I somehow need to call that method through the remote view. Thanks On Oct 1, 1:02 pm, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: Can some one please help me understand the setString function in RemoteViews? public void setString (int viewId, String methodName, String value) Can I pass any method name to setString ? I have a custom view in my xml layout file. I'm passing the view id of my custom view, name of a method in my custom view class and a string parameter for the method. It doesn't seem to be working. Is there is a limitation on the methods that can be passed to setString? Or is there something fundamentally wrong in what I'm doing? You can't have a custom view in a layout managed by RemoteViews, assuming that by custom view you mean your own separate class. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com Android App Developer Books:http://commonsware.com/books.html --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-beginners] Re: Remote View setString
Can some one please help me understand the setString function in RemoteViews? public void setString (int viewId, String methodName, String value) Can I pass any method name to setString ? I have a custom view in my xml layout file. I'm passing the view id of my custom view, name of a method in my custom view class and a string parameter for the method. It doesn't seem to be working. Is there is a limitation on the methods that can be passed to setString? Or is there something fundamentally wrong in what I'm doing? You can't have a custom view in a layout managed by RemoteViews, assuming that by custom view you mean your own separate class. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com Android App Developer Books: http://commonsware.com/books.html --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-beginners] Re: Remote View setString
Thanks Mark. Yes it is my own view class (like a button). But it works fine in RemoteView as long as I do not attempt to set anything in my view class. But one of the parameters in this view class is dynamic and I need to set it from the Remote View (like we do a setText for a button). That is where I am stuck at. I have a public method in my view class which takes a string parameter and I somehow need to call that method through the remote view. Thanks On Oct 1, 1:02 pm, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: Can some one please help me understand the setString function in RemoteViews? public void setString (int viewId, String methodName, String value) Can I pass any method name to setString ? I have a custom view in my xml layout file. I'm passing the view id of my custom view, name of a method in my custom view class and a string parameter for the method. It doesn't seem to be working. Is there is a limitation on the methods that can be passed to setString? Or is there something fundamentally wrong in what I'm doing? You can't have a custom view in a layout managed by RemoteViews, assuming that by custom view you mean your own separate class. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com Android App Developer Books:http://commonsware.com/books.html --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-beginners] Re: Remote View setString
Let us keep aside the fact that I'm using a custom view. Consider a normal case, where I am using an existing Android view, for example AnalogClock class in my layout. Is there anyway I can call a public method of AnalogClock Class through the remote view? I need to dynamically update something in the AnalogClock and that needs to be reflected in the remote view. Any help would be really appreciated. Thanks On Oct 1, 1:14 pm, android learner android.lear...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Mark. Yes it is my own view class (like a button). But it works fine in RemoteView as long as I do not attempt to set anything in my view class. But one of the parameters in this view class is dynamic and I need to set it from the Remote View (like we do a setText for a button). That is where I am stuck at. I have a public method in my view class which takes a string parameter and I somehow need to call that method through the remote view. Thanks On Oct 1, 1:02 pm, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: Can some one please help me understand the setString function in RemoteViews? public void setString (int viewId, String methodName, String value) Can I pass any method name to setString ? I have a custom view in my xml layout file. I'm passing the view id of my custom view, name of a method in my custom view class and a string parameter for the method. It doesn't seem to be working. Is there is a limitation on the methods that can be passed to setString? Or is there something fundamentally wrong in what I'm doing? You can't have a custom view in a layout managed by RemoteViews, assuming that by custom view you mean your own separate class. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com Android App Developer Books:http://commonsware.com/books.html --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-beginners] Re: Remote View setString
Yes, you can call a public method on widget's views via the remote views as long as it matches signature of 1 of methods that RemoteViews class offers. For example, to set text on the TextView that exists in widget's layout, you can use RemoteViews.setString(R.id.your_view_id, setText, your widget text) or RemoteViews.setTextViewText ((R.id.your_view_id, your widget text). Both are equal, but first one uses reflection. On Oct 2, 12:04 am, android learner android.lear...@gmail.com wrote: Let us keep aside the fact that I'm using a custom view. Consider a normal case, where I am using an existing Android view, for example AnalogClock class in my layout. Is there anyway I can call a public method of AnalogClock Class through the remote view? I need to dynamically update something in the AnalogClock and that needs to be reflected in the remote view. Any help would be really appreciated. Thanks On Oct 1, 1:14 pm, android learner android.lear...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Mark. Yes it is my own view class (like a button). But it works fine in RemoteView as long as I do not attempt to set anything in my view class. But one of the parameters in this view class is dynamic and I need to set it from the Remote View (like we do a setText for a button). That is where I am stuck at. I have a public method in my view class which takes a string parameter and I somehow need to call that method through the remote view. Thanks On Oct 1, 1:02 pm, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: Can some one please help me understand the setString function in RemoteViews? public void setString (int viewId, String methodName, String value) Can I pass any method name to setString ? I have a custom view in my xml layout file. I'm passing the view id of my custom view, name of a method in my custom view class and a string parameter for the method. It doesn't seem to be working. Is there is a limitation on the methods that can be passed to setString? Or is there something fundamentally wrong in what I'm doing? You can't have a custom view in a layout managed by RemoteViews, assuming that by custom view you mean your own separate class. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com Android App Developer Books:http://commonsware.com/books.html --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-beginners] Re: Remote View setString
Thanks Paul. That was helpful. In my case, the public method I'm trying to call, does not match with the signature of any of the methods that RemoteView class offers. I guess that explains the error I get. Is there any way to overcome this limitation? Also, I'd like to know if there is any other way to dynamically set an xml attribute through remote view (where none of the RemoteView methods support setting this attribute) Thanks On Oct 1, 4:47 pm, Paul Turchenko paul.turche...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, you can call a public method on widget's views via the remote views as long as it matches signature of 1 of methods that RemoteViews class offers. For example, to set text on the TextView that exists in widget's layout, you can use RemoteViews.setString(R.id.your_view_id, setText, your widget text) or RemoteViews.setTextViewText ((R.id.your_view_id, your widget text). Both are equal, but first one uses reflection. On Oct 2, 12:04 am, android learner android.lear...@gmail.com wrote: Let us keep aside the fact that I'm using a custom view. Consider a normal case, where I am using an existing Android view, for example AnalogClock class in my layout. Is there anyway I can call a public method of AnalogClock Class through the remote view? I need to dynamically update something in the AnalogClock and that needs to be reflected in the remote view. Any help would be really appreciated. Thanks On Oct 1, 1:14 pm, android learner android.lear...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Mark. Yes it is my own view class (like a button). But it works fine in RemoteView as long as I do not attempt to set anything in my view class. But one of the parameters in this view class is dynamic and I need to set it from the Remote View (like we do a setText for a button). That is where I am stuck at. I have a public method in my view class which takes a string parameter and I somehow need to call that method through the remote view. Thanks On Oct 1, 1:02 pm, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: Can some one please help me understand the setString function in RemoteViews? public void setString (int viewId, String methodName, String value) Can I pass any method name to setString ? I have a custom view in my xml layout file. I'm passing the view id of my custom view, name of a method in my custom view class and a string parameter for the method. It doesn't seem to be working. Is there is a limitation on the methods that can be passed to setString? Or is there something fundamentally wrong in what I'm doing? You can't have a custom view in a layout managed by RemoteViews, assuming that by custom view you mean your own separate class. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com Android App Developer Books:http://commonsware.com/books.html --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
