I have two widgets: One is called "NoteWidget" and is a normal app widget that has a ConfigurationActivity. Whenever I set it up for the first time, it does call onUpdate(), but it never does that again.
The other one is the "UpcomingWidget", and this one is a Collection Widget, but because this one does not have a Configuration Activity, onUpdate() never gets called.
It is very weird, because it used to work when I only had the NoteWidget, and even when I was starting to implement the UpcomingWidget, but at some point it stopped working.
I update all my widgets manually with the method refreshWidgets(). It does get called,but onUpdate() does not in any widget provider class:
fun refreshWidgets(context: Context) {
val manager = AppWidgetManager.getInstance(context)
val noteIntent = Intent(context, NoteWidget::class.java)
val upcomingIntent = Intent(context, UpcomingWidget::class.java)
noteIntent.action = AppWidgetManager.ACTION_APPWIDGET_UPDATE
upcomingIntent.action = AppWidgetManager.ACTION_APPWIDGET_UPDATE
val noteIds = manager.getAppWidgetIds(ComponentName(context, NoteWidget::class.java))
val upcomingIds = manager.getAppWidgetIds(ComponentName(context, UpcomingWidget::class.java))
noteIntent.putExtra(AppWidgetManager.EXTRA_APPWIDGET_ID, noteIds)
upcomingIntent.putExtra(AppWidgetManager.EXTRA_APPWIDGET_ID, upcomingIds)
context.sendBroadcast(noteIntent)
context.sendBroadcast(upcomingIntent)
}
AndroidManifest.xml
<receiver android:name=".widgets.NoteWidget" android:label="@string/note_widget">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.appwidget.action.APPWIDGET_UPDATE" />
</intent-filter>
<meta-data
android:name="android.appwidget.provider"
android:resource="@xml/note_widget_info" />
</receiver>
<receiver android:name=".widgets.UpcomingWidget" android:label="@string/upcoming_widget">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.appwidget.action.APPWIDGET_UPDATE" />
</intent-filter>
<meta-data
android:name="android.appwidget.provider"
android:resource="@xml/upcoming_widget_info" />
</receiver>
<service
android:name=".widgets.UpcomingWidgetService"
android:permission="android.permission.BIND_REMOTEVIEWS" />
<activity android:name=".activities.NotePicker">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.appwidget.action.APPWIDGET_CONFIGURE" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
note_widget_info.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<appwidget-provider xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:initialKeyguardLayout="@layout/note_widget"
android:initialLayout="@layout/note_widget"
android:minWidth="110dp"
android:minHeight="110dp"
android:minResizeHeight="110dp"
android:minResizeWidth="110dp"
android:previewImage="@drawable/example_appwidget_preview"
android:resizeMode="horizontal|vertical"
android:updatePeriodMillis="0"
android:widgetCategory="home_screen"
android:configure="com.byteseb.grafobook.activities.NotePicker"/>
upcoming_widget_info.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<appwidget-provider xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:initialKeyguardLayout="@layout/upcoming_widget"
android:initialLayout="@layout/upcoming_widget"
android:minWidth="110dp"
android:minHeight="110dp"
android:minResizeHeight="110dp"
android:minResizeWidth="110dp"
android:previewImage="@drawable/example_appwidget_preview"
android:resizeMode="horizontal|vertical"
android:updatePeriodMillis="0"
android:widgetCategory="home_screen" />
As @MikeM mentioned in a comment, the issue was that I passed AppWidgetManager.EXTRA_APPWIDGET_ID as the name of the extra, when it should have been AppWidgetManager.EXTRA_APPWIDGET_IDS.