Periodic updates of Glance widgets

[jonmountjoy]

Hello,

Has anyone had any success getting Glimpse widgets to auto-refresh?

Reading the Android docs I tried something like modifying my ReceiverKit class to include an onEnabled to queue itself up for future update:

    override fun onEnabled(context: Context) {
        super.onEnabled(context)
        HomeWidgetWorker.enqueue(context)
    }

and then created a HomeWidgetWorker pretty much following this code.

When my widget starts, I do see the onEnabled being called (I set up the intents too), so the enqueue does get called, which has a

val requestBuilder = PeriodicWorkRequestBuilder<HomeWidgetWorker>(
                Duration.ofMinutes(1)
            )
...
 manager.enqueueUniquePeriodicWork(
                uniqueWorkName,
                workPolicy,
                requestBuilder.build()
            )

and I do see the doWork being called as a result of this. But it's only called once. The actual periodic requests are never made at all.

If anyone has anything like this working, please let me know!

Thanks.

[jonmountjoy]

I upgraded to the latest version of the worker library:

implementation "androidx.work:work-runtime-ktx:2.9.1"

and it then issued a useful statement to say my minimum refresh period was too small. The minimum was 15 minutes, and now it all works.