I suspected as much with the Google Search "widget". Thanks for clarifying. And the results of the grep for @RemotableViewMethod annotation are very useful.
Great responses to every question! Thanks Jeff! On Jun 16, 3:25 pm, Jeff Sharkey <jshar...@android.com> wrote: > > Is it possible to disable a button on a Cupcake desktop widget? > > Not directly, but you could send a widget update that swaps out the > drawable used and clears the PendingIntent. Or, keep two buttons in > your layout, and visible/gone them as needed. > > > The current Google Search widget disables the search button until a > > user enters text, then the button is disabled. Is this only allowed > > for "special widgets", or is there an approach available to third- > > party widgets? > > The Google Search bar on the desktop looks and feels like a widget, > but it isn't a real widget. It lives directly in the Launcher app, > which is how it does things like auto completion. Other > AppWidgetHosts are free to include their custom elements like this: > > http://d.android.com/reference/android/appwidget/AppWidgetManager.htm... > > > More generally, is there a list somewhere of the allowed / disallowed > > calls to widget views via the RemoteViews.set<Type>() approach? I've > > also encountered that "setSelected" and some others are not allowed. > > The allowed methods are simply marked with the @RemotableViewMethod > annotation, here's a quick grep across the Cupcake tree: > > http://pastebin.com/f45b5130a > > -- > Jeff Sharkey > jshar...@android.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
