Part of a great computing experience is customizing your work environment - making it uniquely your own. Spreading that love to Android devices is LevelUp Studio and its Beautiful Widgets, a set of ...

Widgets have been a crucial Android feature for more than a decade, but they've lost a lot of their appeal and usefulness over the years.

Back in October, the Google Home app team said it was working on a homescreen widget. We might now have our first look at the design as Google at I/O 2024 worked to encourage widget adoption. At the ...

Thanks to Android being open-source, there's a myriad of widgets available on the Google Play Store. Widgets are small tools or applications that can be added to your Home screen to perform certain ...

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Google discussed the importance of widgets at Google I/O 2024. During the session, there was a slide that showed first- and third-party widgets. Included in the slide was what appeared to be a widget ...

Your Android phone's home screen is prime real estate. It's where you start your day, check the latest news, and launch your favorite apps. But what if you could make it even more useful? Widgets are ...

Lock screen widgets on Android may soon get the slick background blur effect. The visual change was spotted in the new Android Canary build and should align it with Google’s new Material Expressive 3 ...

To round out the Widgets Spotlight Week, the Android team yesterday hosted a YouTube Q&A session. We learned about the status of stackable widgets and whether they are coming to Android XR.