How to launch activity from android home screen widget
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Hi all,
I am desperately trying to get my head wrapped around how to implement home screen widgets. Right now, I (finally) was able to get a button on my widget respond to a button press setting up an intent filter in the manifest.
However, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to launch an activity when the button is pressed. Basically, here's the code i have:
 @Override 
 public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) 
 { 
      super.onReceive(context, intent); 
      if(intent.getAction().equals("com.bic.search.searchWidget.CLICK")) 
      { 
           Toast.makeText(context, "It works!!", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); 
      } 
 } 
What I really want to do, though, is start a new activity, not display a toast message. I know it has something to do with pending intents, but I can't figure out how to get that to work.
Any help and sample code would be appreciated. Thanks a ton to whoever answers this!
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