Question

I was studying a piece of source code from the original PowerControl Widget (SettingsAppWidgetProvider) and I’ve found the following methods:

    @Override
    public void onEnabled(Context context) {
        PackageManager pm = context.getPackageManager();
        pm.setComponentEnabledSetting(new ComponentName("com.android.settings",
                                        ".widget.SettingsAppWidgetProvider"),
                                        PackageManager.COMPONENT_ENABLED_STATE_ENABLED,
                                        PackageManager.DONT_KILL_APP);
    }

    @Override
    public void onDisabled(Context context) {
        Class clazz = com.android.settings.widget.SettingsAppWidgetProvider.class;
        PackageManager pm = context.getPackageManager();
        pm.setComponentEnabledSetting(new ComponentName("com.android.settings",
                                        ".widget.SettingsAppWidgetProvider"),
                                        PackageManager.COMPONENT_ENABLED_STATE_DISABLED,
                                        PackageManager.DONT_KILL_APP);
    }

Can someone explain me what they do exactly??

edit: I’m sorry my question was bad formulated..I know when they are called but I can’t understand what the setComponentEnabledSetting pair do 😀

Answer 1

The Android SDK docs explain both: onDisabled and onEnabled.

In a nutshell, onEnabled is called when the first instance of the widget is created, and onDisabled is called when the last instance of the widget is deleted/removed.

Edit: in reference to the setComponentEnabledSetting calls, I believe they simply used to indicate that no widgets are active and therefore any related backend processing can be halted.