“_Problem Loading Widget” message

Question

When loading a widget if it cannot find a resource or something it says Problem Loading Widget. That\'s all! Amazing! This message remains on the home screen and does not even s

Answer 1

The problem on my side was that I used androidx.appcompat.widget.AppCompatTextView instead of TextView. So no AppCompat widgets in Widget layout. It seems that the Android Widget is so limited.

Answer 2

Check elements you used in the view in a Widget..

Documentation link

A RemoteViews object (and, consequently, an App Widget) can support the following layout classes:

• FrameLayout
• LinearLayout
• RelativeLayout
• GridLayout

And the following widget classes:

• AnalogClock
• Button
• Chronometer
• ImageButton
• ImageView
• ProgressBar
• TextView
• ViewFlipper
• ListView
• GridView
• StackView
• AdapterViewFlipper

Using forbidden elements causes this very

Problem Loading Widget

message, without saying where did it happen.

Answer 3

In my case I had a floating textView over other views. Removing it and thinking of a different way of showing my info to the user with the existing views that are not overlapping was the solution.

So don't overlap views with RelativeLayout, I still use it and it works, but the views are not overlapping as much as possible.

Answer 4

I faced this problem because I was trying to use Check-box!

So,just remove checkbox.

it will work fine.

Answer 5

I had the same issue but the logcat did not show anything suspicious, neither an error nor a warning. Basically, I was calling a wrong method to change the color of the textview's text.

Answer 6

Just fixed another variant of this error not mentioned in the other answers.

Symptoms were: 1) "Problem loading widget" error on Gingerbread and below 2) The exact same build ran fine on ICS and Jellybean 3) No errors in logcat

The problem was caused by manipulating a view that was never inflated in the remoteviews. Specifically:

remoteviews.setViewVisibility(viewId, View.GONE);

Where viewId was a valid resource, but it was in a layout that was never added to the remote views. No errors were thrown, and the widget displayed 'Problem loading widget' after the call to .updateAppWidget()