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Reputation: 5431

Is it possible to find out if the android widget is placed on lock screen or home screen?

Is it possible to find out if the android widget is placed on lock screen or home screen? I'd imagine it's somewhere in the broadcast provider so I can find out how user is using it on 4.2+.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1084

Answers (1)

Stephan Branczyk
Stephan Branczyk

Reputation: 9375

Here are the relevant snippets from the documentation:

"You can detect whether your widget is on the keyguard (lockscreen) or home screen by calling getAppWidgetOptions() to get the widget's options as a Bundle.

The returned bundle will include the key OPTION_APPWIDGET_HOST_CATEGORY, whose value will be one of WIDGET_CATEGORY_HOME_SCREEN or WIDGET_CATEGORY_KEYGUARD. "

AppWidgetManager appWidgetManager;
int widgetId;
Bundle myOptions = appWidgetManager.getAppWidgetOptions (widgetId);

// Get the value of OPTION_APPWIDGET_HOST_CATEGORY
int category = myOptions.getInt(AppWidgetManager.OPTION_APPWIDGET_HOST_CATEGORY, -1);

// If the value is WIDGET_CATEGORY_KEYGUARD, it's a lockscreen widget
boolean isKeyguard = category == AppWidgetProviderInfo.WIDGET_CATEGORY_KEYGUARD;

"Once you know the widget's category, you can optionally load a different base layout, set different properties, and so on. For example:"

int baseLayout = isKeyguard ? R.layout.keyguard_widget_layout : R.layout.widget_layout;

Upvotes: 6

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