Android Widget

Android Widget

android widget it's like small application place to your home screen.

You can display any live updates, or messages etc..

XML CODE

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<appwidget-provider xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

    android:minWidth="294dp"

    android:minHeight="72dp"

    android:updatePeriodMillis="1000"

    android:initialLayout="@layout/main">

</appwidget-provider>

Screen Shot

WidgetProvider.Class

import java.text.DateFormat;

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;

import java.util.Arrays;

import java.util.Date;

import android.app.PendingIntent;

import android.appwidget.AppWidgetManager;

import android.appwidget.AppWidgetProvider;

import android.content.Context;

import android.content.Intent;

import android.util.Log;

import android.widget.RemoteViews;

public class WidgetProvider extends AppWidgetProvider {

  DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("hh:mm:ss");

  public void onUpdate(Context context, AppWidgetManager appWidgetManager, int[] appWidgetIds) {

    final int N = appWidgetIds.length;

    Log.i("ExampleWidget",  "Updating widgets " + Arrays.asList(appWidgetIds));

    // Perform this loop procedure for each App Widget that belongs to this

    // provider

    for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) {

      int appWidgetId = appWidgetIds[i];

      // Create an Intent to launch ExampleActivity

      Intent intent = new Intent(context, AndroidMyFirstWidgetActivity.class);

      PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(context, 0, intent, 0);

      // Get the layout for the App Widget and attach an on-click listener

      // to the button

      RemoteViews views = new RemoteViews(context.getPackageName(), R.layout.main);

     

     // views.setOnClickPendingIntent(R.id.widget1label, pendingIntent);

      // To update a label

     

      views.setTextViewText(R.id.widget1label, "Welcome to Mad Blog : " +df.format(new Date()));

      // Tell the AppWidgetManager to perform an update on the current app

      // widget

      appWidgetManager.updateAppWidget(appWidgetId, views);

    }

  }

}

AndroidManifest.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

    package="com.widget"

    android:versionCode="1"

    android:versionName="1.0" >

    <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="8" />

    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>

    <application

        android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"

        android:label="@string/app_name" >

        <activity

            android:name=".AndroidMyFirstWidgetActivity"

            android:label="@string/app_name" >

            <intent-filter>

                <!-- <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

 -->

               <!--  <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" /> -->

            </intent-filter>

        </activity>

        <receiver android:name=".WidgetProvider" android:label="Mad BLOG Widget">

  <intent-filter>

        <action android:name="android.appwidget.action.APPWIDGET_UPDATE" />

  </intent-filter>

  <meta-data android:name="android.appwidget.provider" android:resource="@layout/widgetprovider" />

</receiver>

       

    </application>

</manifest>

You Can download Source code HERE