How to start Activity from Android AppWidget?

Question

Code like this works well.

    Intent configIntent = new Intent (context, WidgetConfigActivity.class);
    configIntent.putExtra(AppWidgetManager.EXTRA_APPWI         


        

Answer 1

Problem is that I can't use startActivity() function in AppWidget.

Yes, you can. You are passed in a Context object into onUpdate() (or onReceive()) of your AppWidgetProvider -- call startActivity() on that.

Answer 2

   // on receive function use this for new activity start
               Intent intent = new Intent (context, AppWdget.class);
               intent.setFlags (Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
               context.startActivity (intent);

Answer 3

Thanks 2 CommonsWare

There is one more thing to do. context.startActivity(); throws RuntimeException in this case.

Calling startActivity() from outside of an Activity context requires the FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK flag. Is this really what you want?

So you need to set flag

intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);

before.