Launching activity from widget

Question

I\'m trying to do something which really ought to be quite easy, but it\'s driving me crazy. I\'m trying to launch an activity when a home screen widget is pressed, such as

Answer 1

I just wanted to note this here somewhere as I have been (quite stupidly) battling this all night. Basically I did all the intent code correctly but nothing would be launched.

The problem was that I accidentally had a call like this

super.onUpdate(context, appWidgetManager, appWidgetIds);

at the end of my Overridden onUpdate() function.

Make sure you DO NOT have this call to super as it will clear out all pending intents you've set up!