programmatically add the widget to home screen in android

Question

I have developed android widget app and its working fine. Now my client asks that, when the user installed this app, it automatically needs to place on homescreen top position. How to do this? please help me.

Answer 1

1. Create Widget Provider Class
2. Put into Manifest
3. On button click which you wanna add to home

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if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.O) {
    AppWidgetManager mAppWidgetManager = getSystemService(AppWidgetManager.class);

    ComponentName myProvider = new ComponentName(AddWidgetActivity.this, AppWidgetSmall.class);

    Bundle b = new Bundle();
    b.putString("ggg", "ggg");
    if (mAppWidgetManager.isRequestPinAppWidgetSupported()) {
         Intent pinnedWidgetCallbackIntent = new Intent(AddWidgetActivity.this, AppWidgetSmall.class);
         PendingIntent successCallback = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(AddWidgetActivity.this, 0,
                 pinnedWidgetCallbackIntent, 0);

         mAppWidgetManager.requestPinAppWidget(myProvider, b, successCallback);
    }
}

Answer 2

As of Android O, In your app, you can create a request for the system to pin a widget onto a supported launcher.

1. Create the widget in your app's manifest file
2. Call the requestPinAddWidget() method

See the bottom part of this page: https://developer.android.com/preview/features/pinning-shortcuts-widgets.html