Minimal Android widget, APPWIDGET_DELETED and APPWIDGET_DISABLED intents never being received

Question

I have a problem very similar to those that have been asked before, but not exactly the same. References: 1, 2, 3, 4

I have coded up a minimal Android widget, and the

Answer 1

An AppWidgetProvider needs to be exported, so that the core OS process that coordinates app widgets (between hosts and providers) can talk to it. Hence, android:exported="false" is inapropos.

To be honest, I would have expected nothing to work with the provider, rather than only some events.