Retrieve text from a RemoteViews Object

Question

I need to retrieve some text from a RemoteViews object. It is possible for me to get the LayoutId, but I have no idea how to retrieve text from a TextView

Answer 1

CommonsWare in this question says:

... App widgets are write-only: you can push data to them, but you cannot read them. Instead, when you update your app widget with new text, you will need to store that text somewhere, perhaps in a file.

His answer seems to be logical.