Comments on: Code and Slides from FITC Mobile 2009

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:13:00 +0000

By: Guest

Guest — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:59:22 +0000

Looks like the company firewall was causing issues – the app was throwing 403 exceptions. Thanks for the tip! I thought the home screen widget contains an edit box for tweets so thought something was missing, but I must've confused it with the twitter app instead.

By: ysamlan

ysamlan — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:13:52 +0000

It should work fine — I just tested it from a clean download to be sure. Possible issues: You have to give the code a valid Twitter username and password (in TwitterPoster.java where it says “USERNAME_HERE” and “PASSWORD_HERE”), and your emulator needs network access up and running. It's very basic with no error handling at all on the widget, so when it runs into any problems at all (connection timeout, username/password twitter error) it ought to crash hard with a stacktrace if you're running in Debug mode in Eclipse… What does the ADB log tell you when you add the widget to your emulator homescreen?

By: Guest

Guest — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:47:27 +0000

Is the source code for the android home screen widgets incomplete? All I get is the “Loading…” text.

By: ysamlan

ysamlan — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:56:56 +0000

Thanks for coming to the session; hope it helped clear up AppWidgets a bit. I'll try to post a more complete writeup and notes from the FITC talks later this week, too.

By: d3space

d3space — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:53:26 +0000

Thank you! I attended your session and have been wanting to make a homescreen widget since cupcake come out. This should be a great start!