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Wish: Use widgets in apps
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I see two possible questions:
1 Can we have in the same package (apk) a normal activity app and a widget?
2 Can an app exchange info with a widget?
I dont know the answer for the first one, but , for the second, if the developers introduces the right mecanisms, it should be possible to an App to change a related widget info...
But then again, this may even not be what the "question" was about...
1 Can we have in the same package (apk) a normal activity app and a widget?
2 Can an app exchange info with a widget?
I dont know the answer for the first one, but , for the second, if the developers introduces the right mecanisms, it should be possible to an App to change a related widget info...
But then again, this may even not be what the "question" was about...
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I'm sure most people understood that. It's self explanatory if you know what widget and an app are.
Actually NO!...a Widget is a different type of "app" in the android system, as it has very limited functions...relying in services running in the background doing the hard work...
A widget can never run INSIDE an app, but you can recreate a widget and its functions in it...
I know what widgets and apps are and I know how they are supported by and work in B4A and therefore I don't understand what your wish is. Because everything I can imagine what your wish may be is already possible and supported with B4A.
It is possible to run widgets in an app, widget locker does it as do numerous home screen replacements
so you can say, use the winamp widget within your app?
If not, then no. B4a doesn't support what I askes
Such an intriguing question to me (and I think others), that really makes you think deeper of all the possibilities and solutions beyond the original posters actual question here.
So you have a widget that just displays the HIGH SCORE and Trophy collection for a car racing app you made. When the user finishes the game/app you talk to the widget to update the high score and graphical trophy.
You would think to write the high score to a file and have the widget scan that file for an updated score then re-display the updated high score but I am still thinking of possibilities why an app would want to talk to a widget directly. Maybe the trophy graphics are designed by the user community dynamically and hosted on a web server.
It intrigues me.
Has this been discussed previously in another thread?
So you have a widget that just displays the HIGH SCORE and Trophy collection for a car racing app you made. When the user finishes the game/app you talk to the widget to update the high score and graphical trophy.
You would think to write the high score to a file and have the widget scan that file for an updated score then re-display the updated high score but I am still thinking of possibilities why an app would want to talk to a widget directly. Maybe the trophy graphics are designed by the user community dynamically and hosted on a web server.
It intrigues me.
Has this been discussed previously in another thread?
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But I've seen apps do it. Download widgetlocker
I have downloaded the app...
Like any other 'System feature' replacement, it just uses the undetlying framework and changes the behaviour... The widgets are still hosted by the OS itself and NOT by widgetLockee.
Also, hosting and talking to a third party widget requirea that that particular widgets has 'talking' capabilities and that they are open to thirds...
Like any other 'System feature' replacement, it just uses the undetlying framework and changes the behaviour... The widgets are still hosted by the OS itself and NOT by widgetLockee.
Also, hosting and talking to a third party widget requirea that that particular widgets has 'talking' capabilities and that they are open to thirds...
Custom control to be used were?
Inside a B4A app, we dont call it widget, but a view, module or library...
Ouside B4A, in third party apps, there's just no direct way, it had to be a joint effort between both developers, in order to create a base-standart of comunication between them.
Inside a B4A app, we dont call it widget, but a view, module or library...
Ouside B4A, in third party apps, there's just no direct way, it had to be a joint effort between both developers, in order to create a base-standart of comunication between them.
Oki, then I request a way to make custom views. Should be similar to widgets afterall.
You already can create "Custom Views"....
Create a layout of how the custom-view should look, and then create a code module to deal with the Custom-view's internal views...
Then you just load your Custom-View layout into an activity or a Panel... Thats it!
Create a layout of how the custom-view should look, and then create a code module to deal with the Custom-view's internal views...
Then you just load your Custom-View layout into an activity or a Panel... Thats it!
Actually, that sounds really simple.
me too
