Custom component inflates in App but not in Widget - android-widget

Question

Background
I created a custom component to draw on top of an image. At this stage I am merely extending the view.
My primary intention was to create a Widget but could not get it to work. I tried to load the same component in a main Activity, it worked Face Palm.
To be clear I read many many many many ... many post on this topic. This is not a constructor issue.
Symptom
When I load the component in a Widget, I get the following InflateException (no stacktrace).
2020-06-20 09:23:56.368 2602-2602/? W/AppWidgetHostView: Error inflating AppWidget AppWidgetProviderInfo(UserHandle{0}/ComponentInfo{com.package/com.package.WidgetProvider}): android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #1: Binary XML file line #1: Error inflating class com.package.MyView
Code
The culprit class
#RemoteViews.RemoteView
public class MyView extends ImageView {
public MyView(Context context) {
this(context, null);
}
public MyView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
super(context, attrs);
init();
}
private void init() {
// Eventually we'll do something mystical here
}
}
Here is the Widget Layout
<LinearLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_width="match_parent">
<com.package.MyView
android:id="#+id/myview"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:src="#drawable/myimage"
/>
</LinearLayout>
Note: if I switch com.package.MyView for ImageView, it works. See below (ImageView vs MyView)
Question
How do I get this component to inflate correctly in the Widget?

Answer 1

Unfortunately android does not support any descendants of the supported widget classes (ImageView included)
see note under "Creating the App Widget Layout" in the Build an App Widget documentation page
Although , I did find that even though TextClock is not listed under the supported layouts it is indeed supported on all the devices I tried on.
so maybe don't take that as an absolute fact.

Answer 2

Thanks #Joe for pointing me away from the wrong direction.
What worked
I basically had to customize the existing AnalogClock as follows
<LinearLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_width="match_parent">
<AnalogClock
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:dial="#drawable/mydial"
android:hand_hour="#drawable/myhour"
android:hand_minute="#drawable/myminute"
/>
</LinearLayout>
This is bare bones but it does the job.
For the record
AnalogClock is deprecated
Extending the class (cf #Joe) does not work
Copy pasting AnalogClock source code does not work.
I recommend reading this about building your own AnalogClock widget
Outcome