Update function in single-note-widget

[user13v31]

Hi there,

i stumbled over another thing that vexes me every other day. Me and my wife use a single card as a shopping list and sometimes i don't see her changes. On my home screen I use the single-card-widget to see the list directly, tapping on it let's me edit the card, but I am not able to tell it to "update". Another situation where this problem might arise: editing the cards on different devices. A solution might be the well established 'pull-down-to-update' mechanism or a button on the widget maybe even 'pull down'-gesture aon the widget (not in edit mode)? I am not quite sure if this feature is necessary, maybe I am just kinda mistreating your app, sorry if that's the case ;) I guess there are already measures in place to tackle this scenario, if this is no feature-material, could you tell me how the sync works , i.e. how long the timespan between updates is?

Kind regards and thanks for this awesome app.

[desperateCoder]

Hi @user13v31,

Thanks for your proposal! I guess we have a rare case of "I'm here to make a change, not a complaint" here, so thanks for your kind words!

I myself am misusing the app for the same thing with my girlfriend, so I'm the last one who is allowed to judge you 😉

I think you got a valid point here. Someone desperately waiting for something to get done might have the same use case. The thing here is: Widgets in Android are in fact very limited in their functions, we can only implement, what the system allowes us to.

I think pull-down-to-refresh isn't possible. Also there is a hard limitation regarding "how often is a widget allowed to do things by itself" to refresh the widget, if I'm not mistaking, it is like a day or something. One could cheat a bit but no one knows how long Android will tolerate these chats, maybe they blocked it already.

BUT: A button should be possible. This is a case for the one and only @stefan-niedermann to check if he is willing to do this from a UX perspective. I'm just the server-communication guy throwing in my two cents.

For now you only can open the deck app, it should automatically update in the background (the spinner won't show up i think). you then can just return to your widget, if the app updates the data, the widget should, too. @stefan-niedermann correct me if I'm wrong!

Thanks for your proposal again, let's see what @stefan-niedermann has to say about it, but until it is done I'm afraid you'll have to do it in this inconvenient way, sorry!

[Emporea]

It would also be useful, if the widgets had a "add" button with "+" or something like that. Atleast its convinient to directly add something to a list etc.