Ok, so after both pieces of advice above did not work for me, I had to extensively grep through the source code and here is the correct solution that currently worked out for me:

one needs to create a file, called "begin.view.xml" in the "views" folder, alongside your *.webpart.xml (does not seem to matter, what goes in place of the asterisk, does not have to be necessarily -begin-) and begin.html files.

The above mentioned file should contain the following in it:

<view xmlns="http://labkey.org/data/xml/view" title="YOUR TITLE GOES HERE">
</view>

Cheers.
-Leo