Hi I have the same problem so thanks very much for the post...
Could you explain how the onHandleIntent method works please. I have the appWidgetId in the service so I just need the way to update that specific widget. Any help would be very much appreciated. Regards Lyndon On Jan 3, 4:17 pm, theSmith <chris.smith...@gmail.com> wrote: > To follow up on my own question, heres how I did it. > > I went from a service to an IntentService and in the onHandleIntent > (Intent intent) I handle the update requests. > > To get the individual id's I put them as an extra in the intent in the > onRecieve() method in the widget, then fire them off to the > IntentService with context.startService(i). Everything is working > perfectly now. > > -theSmith > > On Jan 1, 10:12 pm, theSmith <chris.smith...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Here is my issue, I want to be able to update a specific > > AppWidgetProvider (home screen widget) from a custom service class. I > > have to build the remote view in the service because I'm also doing > > some networking in there, which takes some time. > > > The problem is that I can't figure out how to update a specific widget > > (individual widgets can have different update intervals, using the > > alarm manager). > > > If I wanted to do it from the onUpdate of the AppWidgetProvider I > > could just call appWidgetManager.updateAppWidget(appWidgetId, > > remoteView); > > > Does anyone have any experience with this or any suggestions? > > > -theSmith- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
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