I have an android widget that fetches data from a server every 10 minutes and display's it on the screen.
I'd like to add a "Refresh" button to that widget.
When the user clicks that button I'd like to run the method that fetches the information from the server.
Adding an event handler to a button in an application is very easy, however I couldn't find an example for a widget.
I'd like to get some help with adding a function to a button click in a widget.
Here is one example more that should help:
package com.automatic.widget;
import android.app.PendingIntent;
import android.appwidget.AppWidgetManager;
import android.appwidget.AppWidgetProvider;
import android.content.ComponentName;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.widget.RemoteViews;
public class Widget extends AppWidgetProvider {
private static final String SYNC_CLICKED = "automaticWidgetSyncButtonClick";
@Override
public void onUpdate(Context context, AppWidgetManager appWidgetManager, int[] appWidgetIds) {
RemoteViews remoteViews;
ComponentName watchWidget;
remoteViews = new RemoteViews(context.getPackageName(), R.layout.widget_layout);
watchWidget = new ComponentName(context, Widget.class);
remoteViews.setOnClickPendingIntent(R.id.sync_button, getPendingSelfIntent(context, SYNC_CLICKED));
appWidgetManager.updateAppWidget(watchWidget, remoteViews);
}
@Override
public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
super.onReceive(context, intent);
if (SYNC_CLICKED.equals(intent.getAction())) {
AppWidgetManager appWidgetManager = AppWidgetManager.getInstance(context);
RemoteViews remoteViews;
ComponentName watchWidget;
remoteViews = new RemoteViews(context.getPackageName(), R.layout.widget_layout);
watchWidget = new ComponentName(context, Widget.class);
remoteViews.setTextViewText(R.id.sync_button, "TESTING");
appWidgetManager.updateAppWidget(watchWidget, remoteViews);
}
}
protected PendingIntent getPendingSelfIntent(Context context, String action) {
Intent intent = new Intent(context, getClass());
intent.setAction(action);
return PendingIntent.getBroadcast(context, 0, intent, 0);
}
}