Hi everybody,

I have the answer to the updateMillis Problem discussed recently:

According to this discussion here, there was a change in 1.6 that the updatePeroide has to be at least 30 Minutes to save battery live. This is currently NOT documented but someone posted the affected sourcecode.

from appwidget framework source (appWidgetService.java)

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private static final int MIN_UPDATE_PERIOD = 30 * 60 * 1000; // 30 minutes
long period = p.info.updatePeriodMillis;
if (period < MIN_UPDATE_PERIOD) {
       period = MIN_UPDATE_PERIOD;
}


This obviously causes the problem, that my widget tutorial displaying the current time will NOT work on 1.6 anymore. Still, due to testing purposes this change is critical in my eyes.

I was optimistic about this tutorial, but… it doesn’t work. I guess it’s too outdated or something. After all, it’s 1.5 based and we have 2.2 now.
A pity.

Hi Lo'oris,

yes, you are right. I apologize for that but I didn't find time to update the tutorial and still don't see any time for me in the future to do so. I try to get back to it as soon as possible but I already can tell that it won't be during the next 2 or 3 month.

Regards,
Norbert

I'm having the same problem as desuvinodkumar with the errors:

No Launcher activity found!
The launch will only sync the application package on the device!

I'm launching it as a 2.1 project

Anyone get the same error, and were able to get past it?



My manifest looks like this:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
     package="org.example.widget"
     android:versionCode="1"
     android:versionName="1.0">
   <application android:icon="@drawable/icon" android:label="@string/app_name" android:debuggable="true">
       <receiver android:name=".MyWidget"
                 android:label="Anything">
           <intent-filter>
          <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
          <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
      </intent-filter>
       </receiver>

   </application>
   <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="7" />

</manifest>