July 2011
Beginner to intermediate
512 pages
12h 4m
English
What You’ll Learn in This Hour:
• Designing and implementing an App Widget
• Working with styles
• Handling App Widget user events
• Using services with App Widgets
In this hour, you create an App Widget for the Been There, Done That! application. Specifically, you create a simple App Widget control that can be added to the user’s Home screen to display the user’s avatar, nickname, and score information and remind her to continue playing the game.
The Android SDK provides developers with an interesting way to provide functionality outside the traditional boundaries of a mobile application: App Widgets. Developers can use the App Widget API to create small controls that can be ...