Android 4.2 Widgets

corwin42

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• Nov 16, 2012

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joneden said:

Has anyone tried to do one of the new 4.2 lock screen widgets yet? If so is there a way to compile the app for 4.1 and up while retaining the 4.2 widget?

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Just tried it. You only have to add the

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android:widgetCategory="keyguard|home_screen">

element to the Appwidget-provider xml in the Objects/res/xml folder and make the file read only and compile with the Rev17 android.jar.

 

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joneden

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• Nov 17, 2012

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Nice one ! Thanks for that.

I'll give it a shot on Monday.

Regards,

Jon

 

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joneden

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• Nov 19, 2012

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Hi Corwin,

Such a nice simple upgrade

I was a little worried about the code compiled with API 17 running on Android 4.1 devices as well as 4.2 but it seems to work just fine.

Now if only I could get the widget to work 100% of the time

Best Regards,

Jon

 

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NeoTechni

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• Mar 22, 2013

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How do we get the size of the widget?

Currently I get something weird like:

 

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Erel

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• Mar 22, 2013

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Please start a new thread for this question.

 

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Nickelgrass

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• Oct 2, 2013

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Can the Lockscreen Widget be treated like any other Widget? I am updating the widget from within a second service with callsubdelayed. Is there anything to consider? I mean because the widget is only actually there if the lockscreen is on.

 

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Erel

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• Oct 3, 2013

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It should behave like any other widget.

 

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Marvin Januszewski

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• Nov 6, 2013

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I tried it. But my Widgets not are shown at the Lockscreen List.

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The File contains:

<appwidget-provider xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:widgetCategory="keyguard|home_screen">
</appwidget-provider>

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Whats wrong?

 

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scsjc

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hello everybody, can leave a sample with one widget on lockscreen. thanks.

 

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DonManfred

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• Jun 2, 2015

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this is an old thread! tart a new one for your question.
But you dont need to IF YOU FOLLOW THE TUTORIAL

 

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