setRotation of TextView in RemoteViews (app widget)

Question

I have a widget whose xml layout is simple: an ImageView and a TextView.

I can hardcode the rotation of the TextView in the xml by

Answer 1

The reason why you are crashing is because setRotation() does not have the @RemotableViewMethod annotation in the Android source code, and therefore it cannot be set using setFloat().

I am not aware of any way for you to change the rotation property of a View dynamically in an app widget. One workaround is to support N rotations via N versions of your layout file, each of which has a hardcoded android:rotation value.