From the course: Android App Development: Working with Widgets

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First widget layout

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First widget layout

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- [Instructor] In this chapter, we'll start developing our own widget based off the sample application. But before we get started, know that the only layout classes you have access to for a widget are FrameLayout, LinearLayout, RelativeLayout, and GridLayout. If you're not 100% familiar with these, look for their details on Android's documentation. So let's get started with our first widget and create one with the wizard. So here we have our main design area. So let's close that and this is our main app here. So let's create the actual widget. So right-click on App, then select New, scroll down to Widget, and then App Widget. And what we're going to do, we're going to call this one TestWidget. And in fact let's remove Widget because it's going to be confusing if we have extensions that says Widget as well. So let's just keep it as Test. And for the placement, Home-screen only. So we're going to keep that simple for now so Home-screen only. Can we resize it horizontally and vertically?…

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