Documentation for widgets on the Android home screen

Question

Do you know any books, articles, examples, screencasts that document how to develop a home screen widget on Android?

I just found these links:

• widget design guidelines
• Introducing Home Screen Widgets and AppWidget Infrastructure

I would like to develop tiny code for the home screen, and I am looking for a suitable way to encode it.

Answer 1

There are many examples if you google for the “Android widget tutorial”. Two that I found helpful were:

• HelloWidget from TheSmilingBlog. The basic tutorial for displaying an empty box with two buttons.
• Create a Home Screen widget from developer.com. A more complex example is when it displays a random image selected from its collection, with instructions on how to set the update time, as well as buttons on widgets. EDIT:. It turned out that the buttons in the widgets are actually in the continuation of this tutorial and can be found here .
• (I suppose you also read the official tutorial on the Android Developer website).

Answer 2

Here is a good example:

http://github.com/commonsguy/cw-advandroid/tree/master/AppWidget/

You can read excelent Mark Murph 'Book "A busy coder for Android development"