Add button to Android Widget dynamically

Question

I wan't to add button to android widget dynamically.
I've tried to do it by following way from main Activty:

  Button a = new Button(this);
  a.setText("Pushme");
  RelativeLayout rl = (RelativeLayout)findViewById(R.id.llay);
  rl.addView(a);

RelativeLayout here it's widget layout.

From AppWidgetProvider custom class I cant do it too, cause I'm unable to create there button.

Is there any solution?

CommonsWare · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-02 15:20:34Z

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You can call addView() on a RemoteViews to add a nested RemoteViews.

Or, define all your buttons in your base layout that you use with RemoteViews, with some buttons initially set to android:visibility="gone". Then, use setViewVisibility() on the RemoteViews to make them visible as desired.

answered Sep 2, 2013 at 15:20

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Laser Over a year ago

But I wan't to generate button in runtime is it possible?

CommonsWare Over a year ago

@Pepelac: I believe that I covered this in my answer. Note that what you want may not work very well, as the app widget's overall size will not change, and so your added button may cause other things in your app widget to shrink.

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