I have reviewed the developer documentation on App Widgets and I found that some of my fundamental questions are not really being addressed. I'd like to raise some of them here to see if anyone here can send me an RTFM link or a direct answer.
Given the following: I have an application that provides 2x1 widget that can calculate the time remaining until sunrise. I'd like to provide an option to configure the widget to display the time until sunrise or the time until sunset. I'd like the user to be able to install two instances of the widget, each configured for one of those options. I'd like to provide a 1x1 widget in addition to the 2x1 widget so that the user can choose which one to use. Here are my questions: 1) How does one provide multiple options for widget sizes? Do you just add additional meta-data sections under the Receiver entry of the manifest? 2) How does one set options that are unique to a given instance? The app currently uses SharedPreferences for all of its configuration. But if both instances are running in the same context, how can each widget know how it is configured as distinct from another instance? 3) The app uses a service that is started by an alarm in order to do the updating. When the alarm is triggered, the service calculates the time remaining until the event and then it updates the remote view. Do both widgets share the same service? I'd that is the case since it all one app with just multiple widget instances. If that's the case, how can the service know which widget it is updating? Thanks for any help! -- Jake Colman -- Android Tinkerer -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
