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Asked: 2026-06-16T03:45:25+00:00

Looked through every question, can’t get it working. I wanna set an AppWidgets layout

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Looked through every question, can’t get it working.

I wanna set an AppWidgets layout with the value of a string (So the layout can be switched to another one by just changing the string).

String NoteString = "R.layout.widget_blue".toString();

int resID = context.getResources().getIdentifier(NoteString, "layout", context.getPackageName());

RemoteViews views = new RemoteViews(context.getPackageName(), resID);

don’t know why it doesn’t work, widget just says: “problem loading widget”..

This works fine:

RemoteViews views = new RemoteViews(context.getPackageName(), R.layout.widget_blue);

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  1. Editorial Team

    In order to construct a resource ID from string components, you must pass the individual components into getIdentifier(), not the fully qualified ID as a single parameter:

    //Get the ID for R.layout.widget_blue
int resID = context.getResources().getIdentifier("widget_blue", "layout", context.getPackageName());

    Then just change the first parameter name to get a different layout resource.

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