Now that you have a RemoteViews, you can send data to widget. Make
necessary calls on RemoteViews before calling manager.updateAppWidget
(). This approach should 100% work.
On Oct 2, 2:42 am, sdphil <phil.pellouch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to do this in my service, and it never makes any calls into
> my app widget...
>
> @Override
> public void onStart(Intent intent, int startId) {
> super.onStart(intent, startId);
>
> Context context = (Context) this;
> String packageName = context.getPackageName();
>
> RemoteViews updateViews = new RemoteViews( packageName,
> R.layout.appwidget);
>
> ComponentName thisWidget = new ComponentName(this,
> MyAppWidgetProvider.class);
>
> AppWidgetManager manager = AppWidgetManager.getInstance(this);
>
> manager.updateAppWidget(thisWidget, updateViews);
>
> }
>
> On Oct 1, 3:10 pm, Paul Turchenko <paul.turche...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Just retrieve appwidgetprovider and use RemoteViews to do that
>
> > On Oct 2, 12:19 am, sdphil <phil.pellouch...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > ping. any thoughts?
>
> > > On Sep 30, 7:01 pm, sdphil <phil.pellouch...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > From a service that's running, how do I send an event or an intent to
> > > > an app widget that is just sitting their idle...
>
> > > > tia.
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