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33 lines
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<p>Android allows applications to publish views to be embedded in other applications. These
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views are called widgets, and are published by "AppWidget providers." The component that can
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contain widgets is called a "AppWidget host."
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</p>
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<p>For more information, see the
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<a href="{@docRoot}guide/topics/appwidgets/index.html">AppWidgets</a>
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documentation in the Dev Guide.</p>
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{@more}
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<h2><a name="providers"></a>AppWidget Providers</h2>
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<p>Any application can publish widgets. All an application needs to do to publish a widget is
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to have a {@link android.content.BroadcastReceiver} that receives the {@link
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android.appwidget.AppWidgetManager#ACTION_APPWIDGET_UPDATE AppWidgetManager.ACTION_APPWIDGET_UPDATE} intent,
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and provide some meta-data about the widget. Android provides the
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{@link android.appwidget.AppWidgetProvider} class, which extends BroadcastReceiver, as a convenience
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class to aid in handling the broadcasts.
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<h2>AppWidget Hosts</h3>
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<p>Widget hosts are the containers in which widgets can be placed. Most of the look and feel
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details are left up to the widget hosts. For example, the home screen has one way of viewing
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widgets, but the lock screen could also contain widgets, and it would have a different way of
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adding, removing and otherwise managing widgets.</p>
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<p>For more information on implementing your own widget host, see the
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{@link android.appwidget.AppWidgetHost AppWidgetHost} class.</p>
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