Android Appwidget stops updating when adding second type of AppWidget to App

Question

I have an application which has an Appwidget. All works well.

Now I have decided to add a second AppWidget to my application. I have created a second receiver in my manifest and new provider class etc. I think I have it all wired correctly as I am able to add the new widget to the Homescreen.

But ... now both widgets will never update. I checked my code in debugger and the update methods are getting called, but it seems like the AppWidgetManager.updateAppWidget(x,y) call is not causing the update to happen.

Update: My App is working fine on API8 emulator, but exhibiting the odd behaviour with API10 emulator.

Any idea what might be wrong here?

Do you need a second instance of the first AppWidget or you create a new AppWidget? — Yury, Dec 24 '11 at 15:54
I believe this may be related to an Emulator bug: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=8160 — Yossi, Dec 24 '11 at 17:25

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 25 '11 at 10:33

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Confirmed that this is an Emulator bug: App works fine on Froyo and Gingerbread devices, works fine on Fryo Emulator, but exhibits bad behavior in Gingerbread emulator.

Likely related to issue:

Google code bug report

answered Dec 25 '11 at 10:33

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