Android App standard with widget

Question

I have an app that starts with the OS and it might or might not be active dependending on user actions performed later on. Of course this app, has a number of activities and one of them has been defined as entry point in the android-manifest.xml file

<activity android:name=".PrincipalActivity"
              android:label="@string/app_name">
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>

Now I would like to give the user the choice to add a widget on his/her desktop for showing only relevant information about my app, which is (or should be) running in the background.

Q1: is it possible to add a widget to this same app?

Q2: can I invoke my app from the widget?

I tried adding a widget following the tutorials for widget but it didn't work so far.

Answer 1

1. Yes it is possible to add a widget to the app. You simply need to define the Widget in your android manifest. I don't know if you saw this but here is some good reference: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/appwidgets/index.html

2. Yes you can invoke your app from the widget. Here's a post about it: Launching activity from widget

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