Apps Widget Help

[Superunknown88]

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Hi I have created a task reminder application that runs great.

The screen looks like this on the emulator

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However, I would like to create a widget that implements that screen, albeit a bit smaller. So instead of having to go to android menu, go through the application icons, click on the Task reminder icon and have that screen on. I would like it to be viewable on the homescreen.

I'm not sure how to do this? Does anyone know?

If anyone needs to see my application code, please do ask.

It would be highly appreciated. Thanks.

 

[JordiDroid]

Why do you want to do this? I think it is a bad practice. Let your application users decide if they want to show your app on their homescreen... It's their Android device and you have to let them decide by themselfs what to do with their homescreen. I don't know if Android supports this feature. But if it doesn't, i'm quite sure it is because of the reason i meantioned.

 

[Superunknown88]

Hi I'm not forcing them to use it as a widget. It's merely optional.

 

[JordiDroid]

If it is optional, users will do it themselves with the build-in feature, right? Users are used to this, so why behave different? I think what you want is a bad practise.