Avoiding FAILED BINDER TRANSACTION error when updating lots of widget bitmaps

Question

I am coming across an error when I am updating my RemoteViews in my AppWidget.

.. !!! FAILED BINDER TRANSACTION !!!

This is caused

Answer 1

The best workaround I found was to use setImageURI on the ImageView objects using

remoteViews.setUri(R.id.myImageView, "setImageURI", "file://blahblahblah.png");

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