Hello. Android noob here. I’m developing an app using compose MP, that also has a widget in android using glance (didn’t get to the iOS widget part yet). I understand that glance provides it’s own composable UI functions like Row, Column etc, but is not using the equivalent compose functions of Row, Column etc. It also has it’s own Modifier and the function params are a bit different. My question is, is there a good way/pattern to share ui logic between my main app code and the widget? like if i want to reuse some components/ui logic between the two. So far i can’t find or think of a way to do it without copy/paste/tweak?

So question #2: I have a widget that is showing a progress bar and a timer, showing how long left for something, meant to be on the lock screen eventually (think something like your taxi or delivery app showing how far away the driver is for example, though my case is simpler as it simply depends on the current time). Rest in the thread: -->

Hello, i have a question about glance library. If you implement it with Glance, can't you separate the app widget provider process with android:process=":remote"? I have a question because there is an issue where the update does not occur when the process is separated.

Hey there I'm pretty new to Glance and been just playing around with the docs but couldn't find much in terms of how to approach a particular problem I have. 1. How do I approach the problem of triggering a UI refresh based on a network call. What is the recommended approach for doing this? 2. If I have a continuously recomposing Glance widget (like progressbar), do I have to always send in updates? If so can this only be done via protoDataStore?

Hi, I have a question regarding using color resources in glance. In some cases, it is not possible (or I haven't found a way) to use a color resource - for example to set the color of Text, because color of

TextStyle

is of type

ColorProvider

and the factory function to create

ColorProvider

from resource is restricted to the library and says

Returns a [ColorProvider] that resolves to the color resource. This should not be used outside of the Glance Libraries due to inconsistencies with regards to what process (app vs launcher) colors are resolved in

That's also the case with

colorFilter

for

Image

, color of

CircularProgressIndicator

and probably more. On the other hand, there's a

.background

modifier that accepts color resource and is working just fine. I tried to overcome this by using

RemoteViews

directly, so for example I can set the color of Text like this:

AndroidRemoteViews(
    remoteViews = RemoteViews(context.packageName, R.layout.widget_textview).apply {
        setTextViewText(R.id.text, text)
        if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.S) {
            setTextViewTextColorResource(R.id.text, colorRes)
        } else {
            setTextColor(R.id.text, LocalContext.current.getColor(colorRes))
        }
    },
)

and this seems to be working fine too. After all, the glance theme's dynamic colors are also created from resources... So, what's the reason for that restriction of

ColorProvider

? And can my approach with remote views cause troubles in some cases (not resolving to correct color)?

Is there any way to identify the widgets inside the receiver in the onEnabled function and also in the onDisable function? In the glance widget Thanks in advance!

Have you guys had success with using the

glance-experimental-tools

for getting a preview for your app widget? I've tried

appwidget-host

as well as

appwidget-viewer

but didn't have success with either method. Is this still the way to do glance previews or is there a newer method out there? My widget is done, so technically I don't need previews any more but I would have liked to use the preview image export.

Anyone has idea why

horizontalArrangement

is not provided in

compose.glance.layout.Row

?

How can we get same behaviour like

Arrangement. SpaceBetween

Has anyone written a test code for the glance widget? Or is there a guide on this?

hey guys, did anyone figure this out? I want to use the ImageVector from the compose’s material library in a widget, but the image provider doesn’t have an ability to do so https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77167962/how-to-use-an-imagevector-in-a-glance-widget

Is there anyway to use AdapterViewFlipper in glance?

Has anyone used Compose Glance? Its latest version (1.0.0) seems to always display the

initialLayout

and not show the custom interface i've written. also, I've tried upgrading other repos that use glance to i 1.0.0 and they all have this issue and include this: https://github.com/android/user-interface-samples/tree/main/AppWidget

Hi! Is there a way I can set a widget preview depending on the dark mode? Or should I provide light / dark widgets to the user all the time, ignoring the mode. I use

android:previewImage

to display the preview.

Hi! I’m not able to trigger the

doWork

function for the

CoroutineWorker

to fetch data for the widget. Any idea of what could be the reason? 😕 I’m using very similar logic as in this sample, but it’s not working for me.

Hey guys, is there any library implementation that works to load images within Compose UI for glance?

How should I handle

androidx.glance.session.SessionWorker

inside the

WorkerFactory

of

CoroutineWorker

? I have to use the factory due to dependency injection, but now it seems quite confusing.

I have a widget that's created using jetpack glance API. It stops working once I do an app update. Can someone please help here? I will post the relevant code in the thread below

vivo Android 13 version crashing continuously

What's supported minApi? Doesn't work on sdk22

Is it possible to add widget composable to Main Activity for preview?

How to capture crashes happening in jetpack glance widget. we have integrated firebase but it's not getting logged. please help

Is there a way to get the size measurement of the current Composable in Glance? Something like

BoxWithConstraints

or a hack with RemoteViews that would expose a measurement.

I have published a simple library that enables using any regular Composables inside Glance. https://github.com/cvb941/Deglance

Hi, I've been struggling for a few days now and I just can't get to make the simplest thing work. What am I doing wrong? I have a simple widget with

LazyColumn

but it seems like it composes ALL items in the list regardless if they are visible or not. Effectively behaving like

Column

with scroll

sometimes when our users update the app, this weird white bubble comes. can someone help us fix this?

Hi team, I need to be guided with glance. I'm creating an application that allows you to record your phrases that motivate me the most, but I think it's not interesting to have the application to read a phrase that motivates us and that we like, so I decided to use glance to create a widget that displays a quote from the list endlessly after 3 seconds, and so far in the docs I can't find something that suits me to do that. For the application to be ready, it's just the widget part with glance that's causing me problems, and I'm at point zero. Could someone have a solution?

set the channel topic: Jetpack Glance: https://developer.android.com/jetpack/androidx/releases/glance File bugs here: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues?q=status:open%20componentid:1097239

Hi, maybe someone can help in this channel? Google recommends to use CoroutineWorker to update our new Glance widgets, I suposse that using a periodic work started in Application when the app is started for the first time, for example, because now, widgets doesn't have onEnabled() method, that in oldschool widgets was used to start periodic threads for updating them. So I see a problem here. If the user has not placed any widget on the desktop, why should we have to start a periodic worker constantly updating? Do google offers a solution for this? I don't find it.

Also, related to Glance, it seems that it doesn't apply the colors of the theme, on their composables:

provideContent {
    GlanceTheme(
        // Using colors from app theme
        colors = ColorProviders(light = lightScheme,dark = darkScheme)
    ) {
        MyContent()
    }
}

is ignoring primary and onPrimary, for example I need to do this to force white text in my texts:

Text(style = TextStyle(color = GlanceTheme.colors.onPrimary))

is this normal? to be mandatory to set manually every color of the theme in every composable used in glance?