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

You can update the remote views and then call

ComponentName componentName= new ComponentName(context, YourClass.class);
AppWidgetManager.getInstance(context).updateAppWidget(componentName, remoteViews);

on, which AFAIK should update the widget