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It seems that Google and OHA went with providing an Application Widget API in which the HomeScreen widget is not a separate application. They have a service api so tha tyou can embeded the widgets in the HomeScreen  an easy manner and etc. Thus looks like  I need to change my plans and implement the widegts using this api.

If you would like to view the API its in frameworks/base/core/java/android/appwidget in Android source. They have added an AppWidget chooser/picker manager to choosw which widget to enable. Will this be in the next firmware/SDK release?

At this time the Andorid Kernel Developers have just competed another merge of cupcake with the main branch so its hard to tell what the time period plan is for if all of the features in the new merge will make it to the next firmware/SDK release. It might be a possiblity than it might not.