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will be returned from method understaning

I'm reading a book "Android Application Development for dummies" and i can not understand that line of code can you explain it to me,please

RemoteViews updateViews=new RemoteViews(context.getPackageName(),R.layout.widget);

And here is how author explain it : Here I am building a RemoteView object with the current package name as well as the layout that will be returned from this method. The layout, R.layout.widget, is shown in Listing 7-3.

But how to understand this "will be returned from this method"?

Solution

  • This is specifying an XML layout file that is part of your app. Generally, RemoteViews are for widgets - so this is saying that the creation of this remote view will return the XML layout specified as R.layout.x, that you can then modify the contents of.