Comments on: Tutorial – Creating a Custom Analog Clock Widget

By: vishal

vishal — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 05:05:59 +0000

can anybody will tell me code for widgets for battrey backup in android 2.2 ……..?

By: Jayanth

Jayanth — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 11:46:09 +0000

Hi, Thanx for the wonderful tutorial.
The widget works fine in terms of updating the time but doesn’t respond on clicking the clock (using Froyo). Also need some suggestion to debug the code. Since the activity present in the code has nothing to do with widget, there is no use placing a breakpoint. Is there any way I can start debugging the code?

Thanx in advance.

By: ichiboo

ichiboo — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 04:53:50 +0000

Thanks for the tutorial. i downloaded your full eclipse project and tried running on both emulator and android phone.Though there weren’t any errors on the codes, the clock’s not showing up on the home screen of both devices, and i don’t understand your reply….. >.> quote:” @jason How are you running it? There shouldn’t be anything to run, just add it to the home screen as a widget.”
what do u mean by “Adding it ti the home screen as a widget?”

By: Clock widget maken

Clock widget maken — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 18:29:44 +0000

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By: Faraz Azhar

Faraz Azhar — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 19:42:04 +0000

Great tutorial. Although I’ve been trying to make a simple amendment. Instead of opening the clock application on clicking the widget, I want to open a new activity. Lets say the Info.java which is already there in your project. I would like the Info layout to popup when I click the clock. I tried to code for it, but it doesn’t work. I click on the widget and nothing happens at all ! Please help me correct my code:

1) all the files are kept the same. I’ve changed the Category (intent-filter) of .Info activity to “android.intent.category.DEFAULT”.
2) My amended code for onReceive is:

String action = intent.getAction();
if (AppWidgetManager.ACTION_APPWIDGET_UPDATE.equals(action))
{
Intent myIntent = new Intent(context, Info.class);
PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(context, 0, myIntent, 0);

RemoteViews views = new RemoteViews(context.getPackageName(), R.layout.widget);
views.setOnClickPendingIntent(R.layout.info, pendingIntent );

int widgetID = R.id.AnalogClock;
AppWidgetManager manager = AppWidgetManager.getInstance(context);
manager.updateAppWidget(widgetID, views);
}

By: vl

vl — Mon, 16 May 2011 13:39:34 +0000

Analog Clock Collection is a useful collection of clock widgets for Android. The clocks size: 2×2.

http://bstdownload.com/reviews/analog-clock-collection-2/

By: Adrian

Adrian — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 23:51:43 +0000

Thanks for the great tutorial. I started to play around with the code, and after I cleared out the whole widget.java and info.java files (actually I just put /*…*/ on the whole code ) The app still installed and ran (on a fresh new emulator phone as well) WTF?! Does the manifest file have anything to do with this? Or are the xml files displayed without any code. And the clock is updated…it keeps time.

By: Tommy

Tommy — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 11:25:43 +0000

I admint I couldnt program my tail out of a cave….
I travel alot and could use a clock with an alarm set to a specific time zone.
Any ideas or has anyone seen something like this?

By: admin

admin — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:05:25 +0000

@Tmmm Odd, the link is working for me.

@Arith Download the sample code linked at the bottom of the post, everything you need should be in there.

@jason How are you running it? There shouldn’t be anything to run, just add it to the home screen as a widget.

By: jason

jason — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 01:36:05 +0000

this is a very nice tutorial, but i have ran into an issue. I get it to install but when i run it, i get a forced closed but the clock runs just fine. i ran a catlog. it said that the runtimeexception:
unable to instantuate receiver (name) classnotfoundexception