Home Screen Widget step-by-step - define Widget Provider Receiver in AndroidManifest.xml

It's part of the Home Screen Widgets step-by-step series.

In this step, modify AndroidManifest.xml to add <receiver> to define Widget Provider Receiver.

<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="com.example.androidhomewidget"
    android:versionCode="1"
    android:versionName="1.0" >

    <uses-sdk
        android:minSdkVersion="8"
        android:targetSdkVersion="15" />

    <application
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >
        <activity
            android:name=".MainActivity"
            android:label="@string/title_activity_main" >
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>
        
<!-- define Widget Provider Receiver -->        
        <receiver android:name=".WidgetProvider" >
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.appwidget.action.APPWIDGET_UPDATE" />
            </intent-filter>
        <meta-data android:name="android.appwidget.provider"
            android:resource="@xml/widgetproviderinfo" />
        </receiver>
        
    </application>

</manifest>

Pay attention how android:name=".WidgetProvider" and android:resource="@xml/widgetproviderinfo" correspond to WidgetProvider.java and /res/xml/widgetproviderinfo.xml respectively.

After modified AndroidManifest.xml to define Widget Provider Receiver, we can add our dummy Widget on Home Screen. Up to here, the widget do nothing actually!

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