Question

Probably a stupid question, but where and how do I access my widget controls?
With normal programs I call setContentView(R.layout.blah) and then use findViewById(R.id.blah)
to access the controls, but how do I do the same for widgets? Do I need to call setContentView() somewhere or..? The widget looks just fine without calling it anywhere.

Answer 1

As it comes out there’s now way to access them directly. Instead you have to do this:

RemoteViews remoteViews = 
        new RemoteViews(ctx.getPackageName(), R.layout.folder_view_mywidget);
ComponentName thisWidget = new ComponentName(ctx, FolderViewProvider.class);

Then you use methods from Remoteviews to set all the fields you want like this:

remoteViews.setTextViewText(R.id.text1_1, "text");

And then finally you call this to execute the changes:

AppWidgetManager.getInstance(ctx).updateAppWidget(thisWidget, remoteViews);