A reboot is not necessary (well, it's overkill) as all that is needed is a restart of the Launcher app. So force close the launcher app and the widget will show up. The problem is the Launcher app does not update the list of AppWidgets as often as it updates the list of Apps.
I asked Dianne Hackborn about this quirky behaviour at IO12, she indicated it was unknown behaviour and should be reported as a bug: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=33971 -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.