From the course: Android App Development: Working with Widgets

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Set up the preview image

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- [Instructor] Now let's take a look at how you can change the preview image of the widget and also test our final widget and see it in action. So the first thing we're going to do is go inside of our application here, or inside of our simulator and then long press on the home section and then click on widgets and then scroll down until we see the examples. So this is our widget right now, doesn't look too good. So what we're going to do is change the image of the widget itself, so let's go ahead and do that. So I don't know if you remember when we explore the test_info in the xml folder inside of the resource folder, this is what we've got and right now, if you take a look at the preview image section on line seven, this is where you're going to change the preview image. So if we look into the folder drawable and look for that image example_appwidget_preview, this is exactly what we're seeing inside of our simulator. So we want to change this to another image. So let's take the…

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