Re: [android-developers] Re: manually update AppWidgetProvider's onUpdate

I've overridden AppWidgetProvider.onReceive() just like that several
times. However, make sure to only call updateAppWidget() inside the
"if" block, since otherwise you'll be sending updates for odd events
like onDeleted().

j

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Evan Ruff <evan.ruff@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know if this is EXACTLY kosher, but I've overriden the
> onRecieve method in my AppWidgetProvider to look like:
>
> @Override
> public void onReceive( Context context, Intent intent )
> {
>    this.view = new RemoteViews( context.getPackageName(),
> R.layout.widget );
>    if (intent.getAction().equals( MY_AWESOME_CUSTOM_INTENT ))
>    {
>        // DO AWESOME STUFF HERE
>    }
>    else
>    {
>        super.onReceive( context, intent );
>    }
>
>    ComponentName me = new ComponentName( context, VAWidget.class );
>    AppWidgetManager.getInstance( context ).updateAppWidget( me,
> view );
> }
>
> Then I just add the custom intents to the widget's intent-filter in
> the manifest as usual.
>
> It has worked every time for me, but I'm wondering if there is a
> scenario where it would not be preferable to do it this way?
>
> E
>
>
> On Nov 4, 1:11 pm, skink <psk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Mark Murphy wrote:
>> > skink wrote:
>> > > hi,
>>
>> > > my custom AppWidgetProvider has onUpdate method where i have logic to
>> > > update RemoteViews
>>
>> > > it is not periodically updated by system, but rather, i'd like to
>> > > trigger onUpdate if something happens (in one of my app Activities).
>> > > both custom AppWidgetProvider and Activities i'd like to trigger
>> > > update from run with the same UID
>>
>> > > i tried some AppWidgetManager's methods, but no luck, finally i ended
>> > > with really weird solution: i'm sending broadcast with action
>> > > ACTION_APPWIDGET_UPDATE and extras EXTRA_APPWIDGET_IDS which i got
>> > > from AppWidgetManager
>>
>> > > is it a common way of updating AppWidgetProvider?
>>
>> > You could also just send a broadcast to the provider directly, via the
>> > component-name version of the Intent constructor. Look for a null
>> > action, or some extra you package in, or something to tell it is your
>> > own custom Intent, then do the update work.
>>
>> thank you Mark,
>>
>> this is exactly what i'm doing now - sending broadcast directly to my
>> AppWidgetProvider by manually creating proper Intent and adding some
>> EXTRA_APPWIDGET_IDS extras
>>
>> yet my impression was that this is not the way one should do: i mean i
>> thought there must be some higher level helper method to update
>> AppWidgetProvider
>>
>> pskink
>
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