[android-developers] AppWidget bitmaps disappear after a few minutes

Hello all, pleased to join the community after moving over from PalmOS recently. I thought this problem was funny till it kept me awake all night trying to beat the ADC deadline... I have an ImageView in a LinearLayout of my widget. I set the ImageView drawable from an application icon like this

[android-developers] AppWidget bitmaps disappear after a few minutes

Hello, I thought this one was funny until it kept me up for 5 hours last night trying to beat the ADC deadline! I have an appwidget with an image view in a linear layout. I set the bitmap to be the icon of an application: Drawable d = packageManager.getActivityIcon( new ComponentName ( appPacka