In this tutorial we will learn, how to create a simple home screen app widget that contains a button and opens the MainActivity when we click it. For this we will create a widget layout, an AppWidgetProvider class and an AppWidgetProviderInfo xml file.

It shows how the app widget code interacts with the RemoteViewsFactory, and how you can trigger updates: One feature of app widgets that use collections is the ability to provide users with up-to-date content. For example, consider the Android 3.0 Gmail a

The second, the topic of this tutorial, is through the implementation of App Widgets. App Widgets have been available in the Android ecosystem since version Android 1.6 (Donut). In this tutorial you’ll create an App Widget for a Coffee Log application t