Just update a widget RemoteViews instead of completly creating a new one?

Question

So in my onUpdate method in my AppWidgetProvider class, I ended up executing a non-trivial amount of code so that I can completely recreate a new RemoteViews object. The reality

Answer 1

This is the 2013 update if you are using current API's. In your WidgetProvider class' method that will perform an update:

AppWidgetManager appWidgetManager = AppWidgetManager.getInstance(context);
rv = new RemoteViews(context.getPackageName(), R.layout.widgetlayout); 
rv.setTextViewText(R.id.ofTextViewInWidgetLayoutXML, "Hello World");
appWidgetManager.partiallyUpdateAppWidget(appWidgetIds[i], rv);

Note that it is no longer remoteView.setString but remoteView.setTextViewText