Re: [android-developers] Re: GLSurfaceView on app widget?

2011-06-02 Thread scott19_68
Now that over a year has passed and Honeycomb has some very 'fancy widgets', do you still stand by this statement? I know that I would like to have OpenGL in an appwidget for things like transitions/animations for 3D effects much like the 3D stack widget. -- You received this message because

Re: [android-developers] Re: GLSurfaceView on app widget?

2011-06-02 Thread Romain Guy
Honeycomb does not let you use GLSurfaceView (or SurfaceView for that matter) in appwidgets. On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 1:56 PM, scott19_68 sw.cop...@gmail.com wrote: Now that over a year has passed and Honeycomb has some very 'fancy widgets', do you still stand by this statement?  I know that I

Re: [android-developers] Re: GLSurfaceView on app widget?

2011-06-02 Thread scott19_68
Hey Romain, The question was more towards Dianne's assertion that appwidgets should not be 'highly interactive with the user' - seems like Honeycomb is not adhering to that restriction. All I want to do is code my own appwidget which has animated transitions like 3D stack - OpenGL would be

Re: [android-developers] Re: GLSurfaceView on app widget?

2011-06-02 Thread Romain Guy
The 3D stack uses the Canvas API. The Honeycomb widgets are not really more highly interactive than before. You can scroll them but to do so, it does not require to execute code from another process. On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 2:24 PM, scott19_68 sw.cop...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Romain, The question

[android-developers] Re: GLSurfaceView on app widget?

2010-04-05 Thread Musafir
Thank u all for good support ..:) keep active -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

[android-developers] Re: GLSurfaceView on app widget?

2010-03-31 Thread Musafir
hi , ok but let me know how can i put 3d drawings using opengl in an app widget. if GLSurfaceView is not supported then its impossible to do? am right? thanks for ur reply:) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this

Re: [android-developers] Re: GLSurfaceView on app widget?

2010-03-31 Thread Dianne Hackborn
You can't. The closest you can come is rendering into an off-screen bitmap and updating the widget with that. Of course you need to be very careful about the size of the bitmap and update rate. On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:09 AM, Musafir musafir4frie...@gmail.com wrote: hi , ok but let me

Re: [android-developers] Re: GLSurfaceView on app widget?

2010-03-31 Thread Dianne Hackborn
Btw, we very strongly avoid looking at widgets as mini applications which is where people often are coming from when they ask these questions. That is not what they are for. If you want to do something highly interactive with the user, you should be doing it in your own activity. You could have

[android-developers] Re: GLSurfaceView on app widget?

2010-03-31 Thread String
On Mar 31, 8:16 am, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: You can put your activity on the wallpaper to have a very clean transition from the home screen to the activity (very much feeling like they are part of the same thing). And to bring this back around to the original post, there's

[android-developers] Re: GLSurfaceView on app widget?

2010-03-31 Thread Musafir
hi, thanks a lot for reply, could u please tell me how can i put my activity as live wallpaper? can u provide any referance link ? thank you :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to

[android-developers] Re: GLSurfaceView on app widget?

2010-03-31 Thread String
In the samples directory of the 2.1 SDK download you'll find one called CubeLiveWallpaper. Should be enough to get you started - it was for me! :^) String On Mar 31, 11:58 am, Musafir musafir4frie...@gmail.com wrote: hi, thanks a lot for reply, could u please tell me how can i put my activity

Re: [android-developers] Re: GLSurfaceView on app widget?

2010-03-31 Thread Dianne Hackborn
In your activity tag in the manifest, android:theme=@android:style/Theme.Wallpaper This works starting with 2.0. On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 3:58 AM, Musafir musafir4frie...@gmail.com wrote: hi, thanks a lot for reply, could u please tell me how can i put my activity as live wallpaper? can u

[android-developers] Re: GLSurfaceView on app widget?

2010-03-30 Thread Musafir
hi, why cant it support? is that a limitation of andoid framework? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

Re: [android-developers] Re: GLSurfaceView on app widget?

2010-03-30 Thread Dianne Hackborn
It is a design decision that no application code needs to run to display the widget. On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Musafir musafir4frie...@gmail.com wrote: hi, why cant it support? is that a limitation of andoid framework? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the