I have a widget whose appearance will depend on information gained
from the user in the configuration activity. However, I'm uncertain
how (and in what section of code) to act on the information gained
from the user in the config.
Here is the target functionality from the user's perspective:
When the user creates the widget, the config activity prompts for a
string (with an EditText). The user types it in and presses the submit
button. The config activity goes away and the widget appears on the
homescreen displaying the text the user entered. When the user touches
the widget, the browser is opened and goes to a particular URL that is
determined in part by the string the user entered.
Here is what I have implemented so far:
The config activity lets the user enter data and happily displays it
to me as a Toast message. Then the config goes away as desired and the
widget appears with the default widget icon. If you touch the widget,
it goes to a hardcoded URL. (code below)
My question:
How do I "connect" the info from the config activity with the code
that displays the widget itself? If I put the user's string in a
putExtra of the intent sent in setResult(), where do I write the code
to retrieve that extra? It seems like it ought to put it somewhere in
the AppWidgetProvider code, but where? (Or is there a better way to do
it?)
Here are the relevant portions of my code:
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widget.java:
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public class Widget extends AppWidgetProvider
{
public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent)
{
String action = intent.getAction();
if (AppWidgetManager.ACTION_APPWIDGET_UPDATE.equals(action))
{
//Toast.makeText(context, "onReceive()",
Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
RemoteViews views = new RemoteViews(context.getPackageName
(), R.layout.widget);
Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse
("http://www.cnn.com";));
i.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_BROWSABLE);
i.setComponent(new ComponentName("com.android.browser",
"com.android.browser.BrowserActivity"));
PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity
(context, 0, i, 0);
views.setOnClickPendingIntent(R.id.Widget, pendingIntent);
AppWidgetManager.getInstance(context).updateAppWidget
(intent.getIntArrayExtra(AppWidgetManager.EXTRA_APPWIDGET_IDS),
views);
}
}
}
// end of widget.java
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WidgetConfiguration.java
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public class WidgetConfiguration extends Activity {
EditText myEditText;
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle icicle) {
super.onCreate(icicle);
Intent intent = new Intent();
intent = getIntent();
Bundle extras = intent.getExtras();
int appWidgetId = extras.getInt
(AppWidgetManager.EXTRA_APPWIDGET_ID);
setResult(RESULT_CANCELED);
// Set the view layout resource to use.
setContentView(R.layout.config);
// Find the EditText
myEditText = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.txt_url);
View.OnClickListener mOnClickListener = new View.OnClickListener
() {
public void onClick(View v) {
Intent intent = new Intent();
intent = getIntent();
setResult(RESULT_OK, intent);
Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), myEditText.getText(),
Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
finish();
}
};
// Bind the action for the submit button.
findViewById(R.id.btn_urlSubmit).setOnClickListener
(mOnClickListener);
// If they gave us an intent without the widget id, just bail.
if (appWidgetId == AppWidgetManager.INVALID_APPWIDGET_ID) {
finish();
}
}
}
//end of WidgetConfiguration.java
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