Question

Trying to develop a widget on the Android Platform. I find a lot of widgets for the English or Barclays premier league but they are complex. What I would want is just a score of the ongoing match on the android mobile home screen. On tap of that if any goals are scored the details with name of the player who scored and the minute in which he scored on the home screen of the app…Have gone through this Android: Help with widget that shows news…

I have moved ahead on this…..I ve got my layouts and Service working……what now I want is any API for the premier league exposed so that I could integrate into my app..???

Answer 1

In the tutorial the layout is defined in the

widget_layout.xml file under the folder “res/layout”.

To add an image add something like this

<ImageView
    android:id="@+id/widget_image"
    android:src="@drawable/yourimage"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:layout_gravity="center"
    android:gravity="center_horizontal|center_vertical" />

where “yourimage” should be replaced with the name of an image in your res/drawable folder.

Make sure the current TextView isn’t getting in the way of your image. You may want to remove the TextView, or change it’s layout settings. Alternatively, if you want to keep the TextView and just add an image as a background you just add the following to the TextView:

android:background="@drawable/yourimage"