title: Is there a way to animate on a Home Widget?
body: <p>I want to use an animation on a Home page Widget, i.e. an AppWidgetProvider.  I was hoping to use the "Frame Animation" technique:</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/graphics/2d-graphics.html#frame-animation" rel="noreferrer">http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/graphics/2d-graphics.html#frame-animation</a></p>
  
  <p>which I've used successfully in an activity.  But I can't translate that code to an AppWidgetProvider.</p>
  
  <p>Basically, in an AppWidgetProvider, I create and work with a RemoteViews object, which AFAIK doesn't provide me with a method to get a reference to an ImageView in the layout for me to call start() on the animation.  There is also not a handler or a callback for when the widget displays so I can make the start() call.</p>
  
  <p>Is there another way this can be done?  I suppose that I can probably do the animation on my own with very fast onUpdate() calls on the widget, but that seems awfully expensive.</p>