How to obtain the installed widget list?

Question

I'm trying to read the available home screen widgets list on Android. I can populate a grid using the available applications list using

Intent myIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN, null);
myIntent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_LAUNCHER);
List<ResolveInfo> appsInfo = MyActivity.getPackageManager().queryIntentActivities(myIntent, 0);

and than iterating through each ResolveInfo.
How can I do the same with available Home screen widgets? I'd like to populate a grid with the same list that appears keep touching the screen and choosing 'widget' from the appearing popup.

Answer 1

As suggested by CommonsWare, here is the working code for extracting list of widgets

AppWidgetManager manager = AppWidgetManager.getInstance(this);
List<AppWidgetProviderInfo> infoList = manager.getInstalledProviders();
for (AppWidgetProviderInfo info : infoList) {
    Log.d(TAG, "Name: " + info.label);
    Log.d(TAG, "Provider Name: " + info.provider);
    Log.d(TAG, "Configure Name: " + info.configure);
}

Various other values can be extracted, for more reference see AppWidgetProviderInfo

Answer 2

Call getInstalledProviders() on an AppWidgetManager.