Offsetting position of a View in a AppWidget

I am creating an AppWidget that allows users to skin the widget and download from a list of widgets online. I would like to allow skinners to offset the position of开发者_高级运维 the icons vertically.

I initally tried calling offsetTopAndBottom on the LinearLayout that holds the icons, this is not allowed as its not supported with RemoteViews.

I then had an idea of using 2 Views inside a LinearLayout (on top and below the icon Layout) to "squash" the icons towards the bottom (if the height of the top layout was set to > 0).

When I tried to set the height of these views: -

 views.setInt(R.id.iconMarginTop, "setMinimumHeight", offset);

it also complained that it wasn't supported with RemoteViews

Any ideas what I could do to acheive this offset?

Thanks for your help!

I don't think this can be done. The best thing I can think of is to have multiple layouts with the view at different positions. This might not suit every situations though