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

A typical example of control widgets are music app widgets that allow the user to play, pause or skip music tracks from outside the actual music app. Interacting with control widgets may or may not progress to an associated detail view depending on if the

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