can you use a listview or start a new layout, or open a program, from a widget?

[netchicken]

I know that widgets only use click events, but am finding it difficult to get data into my widget in an elegant manner.

For example I have a temperature widget that needs to get the city to display the temperature. At present I have a separate app that people use to select the city and then save it to a text file.

The widget then looks in the text file for the city and uses that.

It would be far nicer for a listview to be on the widget holding the cities to be selected, or for a new new layout to popup with the listview on it.

Is there any way to open the program that holds the settings from the widget as well?

Its a clunky system to have a separate program to set the options.

Thanks

 

[Erel]

You can call StartActivity from the widget service. The activity can be made transparent (there is a tutorial about transparent activities) so it will look like a floating dialog.

 

[netchicken]

Thanks Erel, that a really good idea!