I've got a related question (or i'm not getting this right). The way i see it, onReceive can be used to handle interface events, but what pending intent do i need to attach to a button so that onReceive can be triggered?
Thanks, Teo On Apr 23, 1:05 am, Al <[email protected]> wrote: > That worked, thanks. > > On Apr 22, 7:36 pm, Tom Gibara <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > That's true, but notice that his service has no dependency on the class > > implementing the onUpdatemethod, in principal anything in the application > > could invoke that service. You'll find the app widget ids available via the > > getAppWidgetIds() on AppWidgetManager. > > Tom. > > > 2009/4/22 Al <[email protected]> > > > > In Jeff's example, the service is started from his onUpdatemethod, > > > which is called by AppWidgetProvider. This is different from what I'd > > > like to do, I'd like to push an update to the widget from inside my > > > activity, but with the correct int[] values. > > > > On Apr 22, 7:16 pm, Tom Gibara <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Yes, you can push updates to your widgets any time by obtaining an > > > > AppWidgetManager. > > > > Jeff Sharkey posted an example that performs an update within a Service. > > > It > > > > includes this code that might help. > > > > > // Push update for this widget to the home screen > > > > ComponentName thisWidget = new ComponentName(this, > > > > WordWidget.class); > > > > AppWidgetManager manager = > > > AppWidgetManager.getInstance(this); > > > > manager.updateAppWidget(thisWidget, updateViews); > > > > > The relevant methods you are looking for are on the AppWidgetManager > > > class. > > > > In this case every widget is being updated in the same way so this code > > > > takes advantage of the updateAppWidgetmethod(which doesn't take an > > > array > > > > of ids, but updates all widget instances identically). > > > > > Jeff's blog post is at: > > > > >http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/04/introducing-home-scree... > > > > > Tom. > > > > > 2009/4/22 Al <[email protected]> > > > > > > Depending on what I do in my application, I might want to force an > > > > > update on my widget. I've have had a poke around and can't seem to > > > > > find any API for doing a manual update. At the moment, I have a > > > > > function that sends a broadcast and my onReceive does this: > > > > > > �...@override > > > > > public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) { > > > > > > String action = intent.getAction(); > > > > > > if (action != null && action.equals(UPDATE_ACTION)) { > > > > > //internal > > > > > static string > > > > > onUpdate(context, > > > > > AppWidgetManager.getInstance(context), new int[] > > > > > { 0 }); > > > > > } > > > > > > else { > > > > > super.onReceive(context, intent); > > > > > } > > > > > } > > > > > > Is there a proper way to do this, which sents the int array to the > > > > > correct values? Or do I have to do it like this instead? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
