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How to disable a button on an appwidget?

Wed, 03/03/2010 - 10:18 | by gabor

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Would you like to disable a button on an appwidget?
As far as I know it can not be done, since the appwiget UI manipulation is limited by the methods of the RemoteViews class.

But if you insist to do that there is a way to make it look like the button were disabled!

RemoteViews can't manipulate a buttons enabled/disabled state, but it can modify its visibility. So the trick is to have two buttons, the real one, and an other which is designed to look like the real one in disabled state, and change witch one is visible.

Lets see a simple example:
We want to have two buttons on the widget, a stop and a start button in order to stop and start some kind of functionality. Once we have started it, we can not start it agin, until we stopped it and vica versa, so we want to disable the button which can not be used right now.

The XML definition of the buttons can be like this:

  1. <Button android:id="@+id/startbutton" android:text="Start" android:visibility="visible"></Button>
  2. <Button android:id="@+id/startbutton_disabled" android:text="Start" android:clickable="false" android:textColor="#999999" android:visibility="gone"></Button>
  3.  
  4. <Button android:id="@+id/stopbutton" android:text="Stop"  android:visibility="gone"></Button>
  5. <Button android:id="@+id/stopbutton_disabled" android:text="Stop" android:clickable="false" android:textColor="#999999" android:visibility="visible"></Button>

The code that runs when clicked on the start button will contain someting like this:

  1. RemoteViews remoteView = new RemoteViews(context.getPackageName(), R.layout.widget);
  2. remoteView.setViewVisibility(R.id.startbutton, View.GONE);
  3. remoteView.setViewVisibility(R.id.startbutton_disabled, View.VISIBLE);
  4. remoteView.setViewVisibility(R.id.stopbutton, View.VISIBLE);
  5. remoteView.setViewVisibility(R.id.stopbutton_disabled, View.GONE);
  6. AppWidgetManager.getInstance(context).updateAppWidget(appWidgetId, remoteView);

And the same for the stop button:

  1. RemoteViews remoteView = new RemoteViews(context.getPackageName(), R.layout.widget);
  2. remoteView.setViewVisibility(R.id.startbutton, View.VISIBLE);
  3. remoteView.setViewVisibility(R.id.startbutton_disabled, View.GONE);
  4. remoteView.setViewVisibility(R.id.stopbutton, View.GONE);
  5. remoteView.setViewVisibility(R.id.stopbutton_disabled, View.VISIBLE);
  6. AppWidgetManager.getInstance(context).updateAppWidget(appWidgetId, remoteView);

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Great post! The XML definitions are clear and I just used in my widget. It worked fine. Thanks.

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You cannot disable a button

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I have a Button on appwidget, that I need to 'enable'/'disable' programmatically from a Service.
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RemoteViews cannot change the

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RemoteViews cannot change the enabled/disabled state of buttons, but you can modify its visibility through RemoteViews. You need two buttons, the real one and one that mimics the real button. STD Clinic Singapore

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RemoteViews can't manipulate a buttons enabled/disabled state, but it can modify its visibility. So the trick is to have two buttons, the real one, and an other which is designed to look like the real one in disabled state, and change witch one is visible.
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Trick is to have two buttons,

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Trick is to have two buttons, the real one, and an other which is designed to look like the real one in disabled state, and change witch one is visible.
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I faced the problem with the

Submitted by kdf007 on Wed, 07/28/2010 - 12:54.

I faced the problem with the Time Intervals which I have given to the AppWidget(20 sec) and the Location Listener(2 sec). Then both are not synchronized with each other. I set the Time Interval for AppWidget to 1 minute and for Location Listener to 20 seconds. Now it is working fine..

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Is there some other way to

Submitted by Amila123 on Wed, 07/28/2010 - 11:21.

Is there some other way to programmatically disable/enable appwidget Button? Very good answers.thank you.
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If you insist to do that

Submitted by alamaneek on Tue, 07/27/2010 - 07:46.

If you insist to do that there is a way to make it look like the button were disabled! RemoteViews can’t manipulate a buttons enabled/disabled state, but it can modify its visibility.Thanks
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try the xml approach...its simple to integrate and works well.

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I am using javascript function to hide the button but seems your solution is much simpler. Thanks

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The solution I'm using now is

Submitted by kunathi on Mon, 07/26/2010 - 07:05.

The solution I'm using now is hiding the button with setViewVisibility and showing other blank button instead to the keep appwidget layout as it was before.
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I gave up trying different

Submitted by rashitha on Wed, 07/21/2010 - 01:18.

I gave up trying different ways to disable it.Trick is to have two buttons, the real one, and an other which is designed to look like the real one in disabled state, and change witch one is visible.
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Submitted by Dutchbox on Tue, 07/20/2010 - 07:44.

"Thanks for sharing this. I also have trouble disable a button on an appwidget. I thought it is not possible anymore so, I gave up trying different ways to disable it.

I'm glad you shared this so I could start now the application. Hopefully, this would be what I really wanted to to with the button in appwidget. Hope to hear more tips from you."

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