How can I change properties of a view in remoteviews?

Question

I'm coding a widget for the first time and I have an instance of RemoteViews that contains a LinearLayout with the id R.id.linear_layout. At some point I need to change the orientation of that LinearLayout (inside the onUpdate method of my AppWidgetProvider). How can I do that?

RemoteViews remoteViews = new RemoteViews(context.getPackageName(),
                    R.layout.widget_layout);
// change the orientaion of the linearLayout
appWidgetManager.updateAppWidget(widgetId, remoteViews);

Find id of your root element in layout and try to set orientation on it — Vivek Mishra, Sep 05 '18 at 10:18
and how do i do that? can you tell me the function i have to use? — Ginso, Sep 05 '18 at 10:23
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41888161/how-to-create-a-custom-notification-layout-in-android — Vivek Mishra, Sep 05 '18 at 11:01

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 05 '18 at 17:05

RemoteViews won't let you modify the actual orientation property. Two potential work-arounds:

Approach #1

Use the constructor for that purpose: RemoteViews(RemoteViews landscape, RemoteViews portrait)

Approach #2

In your main layout file, include both a horizontal and a vertical LinearLayout, both of which carry the same information (they have identical children). Then, selectively display one or the other:

if( useVertical )
{
    remoteViews.setViewVisibility( R.id.linear_lyout_horizontal, View.GONE );
    remoteViews.setViewVisibility( R.id.linear_lyout_vertical, View.VISIBLE );
}

How can I change properties of a view in remoteviews?

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