How to start Activity from Android AppWidget?

Question

Code like this works well.

    Intent configIntent = new Intent (context, WidgetConfigActivity.class);
    configIntent.putExtra(AppWidgetManager.EXTRA_APPWI         


        

Answer 1

Problem is that I can't use startActivity() function in AppWidget.

Yes, you can. You are passed in a Context object into onUpdate() (or onReceive()) of your AppWidgetProvider -- call startActivity() on that.