How to add multiple widgets in the same app?

Question

I\'ve just finished my Android widget. Now I need to have different sizes of this widget for the user to choose from.

For example, I need a medium, small and large

Answer 1

You need a receiver definition for each type in your manifest file like:

This would allow you to have the same AppWidgetProvider class be used for multiple widgets, with different widget names and different sizes defined in the XML.

Now if you need more differences in your widgets than what is in the XML I would create a base widget class that implements all the common behavoir between the different types:

public abstract class MyBaseWidget extends AppWidgetProvider

And then each of your concrete implementations could extend MyBaseWidget. Then in your manifest file you would have a receiver definition for each of your concrete implementations like: