android create widget menu icon

Question

when browsing the widget menu on Android 3.0+ some widgets have simple icons and others have more of a screenshot of what the widget actually looks like.

How would I portray the latter in my own widget?

Answer 1

You can use the widget preview app on your Android emulator to take a screenshot of your widget and send it to yourself via email:

Then inside your appwidget-provider XML you can specify this:

<appwidget-provider xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    [...]
    android:previewImage="@drawable/preview"
    />