I am continually glad for this limitation. Shoving over a MB of memory that the launcher needs to keep in its process for a widget is not desirable. Sorry.
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Mark Murphy <[email protected]>wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 11:11 AM, String <[email protected]> > wrote: > > The funny thing is, that doesn't actually help. The FAILED BINDER > > TRANSACTION seems to occur whenever you send too much data through IPC > > (where "too much" is on the order of 1MB), but it doesn't seem to matter > if > > that 1MB is in a single transaction or split into several. As it is, if I > > have multiple appwidget instances, I need to wait a second between > updates > > to avoid this problem - even though each instance uses a different > > RemoteViews object. > > Now, that's interesting. They must batch those up or something. > > > I've been seeing this issue since at least Donut, and I could've sworn > that > > it was already in the bugtracker, but looking now I can't seem to find > it. > > Anybody think of a reason why I shouldn't create an issue for it? > > I doubt you're going to get tons o' love for a "allow more than 1MB in > a binder transaction", though you can try. > > Have you tried creating a ContentProvider that returns your images via > openFile() and then using setImageViewUri() in the RemoteViews to > point to that ContentProvider? Clearly the Uri/ContentProvider system > is designed to handle larger-than-1MB data sets, since it's used for > MP3 and MP4 files. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy > http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > _Android Programming Tutorials_ Version 3.9 Available! > > -- > 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 > -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer [email protected] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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
