Building your own Android widget is easier than you think. Here's a guide to the best apps, setup process, and tips to kick off your first design.

We have a very early hands-on of lock screen widget support in the first Android 15 beta. Android used to let you add widgets to the lock screen until Android 5.0 Lollipop was released nearly a decade ...

Android app widgets may look pretty simple – essentially, they’re just small windows that users embed in an App Widget Host, typically their device’s homescreen – but your average application widget ...

Android owners have a seemingly endless supply of weather apps to choose from. Unfortunately, most are either too basic and come preloaded on the phone or are free, ad-supported apps. Then, there's ...

Widgets, widgets, widgets. Has there ever been an Android feature so full of promise that went unloved by Google for so very long? Google may have given up on widgets for a while, but the good news is ...

Following the recent popularity of homescreen widgets after their launch on iOS, Android 12 is giving some love to the OS’s long-existing widgets system, including a new menu, forced rounded corners, ...

Android 12 Beta 2 landed yesterday, and it brought quite a few changes. One of those changes has to do with the ‘Conversation Widget’ feature, as it’s available on some devices with Android 12 Beta 2 ...

We may earn a commission when you click links to retailers and purchase goods. More info. Moments after Google posted the new Android 14 Developer Preview 2 files, we got it up and running on a Pixel ...

Google is announcing the latest beta for Android 12 today at Google I/O. It has an entirely new design based on a system called “Material You,” featuring big, bubbly buttons, shifting colors, and ...

Chrome is set to offer a new home screen widget for Android to match the delightful ones added to Chrome for iOS. Update: Chrome’s Android widget has gotten further along in development, revealing ...