[android-developers] Re: How to animate a drawable inside an App Widget?

westmeadboy wrote:
> I'm sure there must be a workaround. For example, having a drawable
> for each of the rotated positions and setting each drawable in turn
> (with some fixed time gap) on the same ImageView...

That would be very battery intensive. Bear in mind that the home screen
runs in a separate process than does your AppWidgetProvider (for
security reasons), and so *every* change to your UI results in a remote
IPC call. App widget UIs are designed to be updated every tens of
minutes, not every tens of milliseconds.

I recommend finding some alternative UI model than something that
requires an animation on an app widget.

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