They promised too much, and delivered too little ...

Since the rebirth of Android with Material You, Google has been working on tons of first-party app widgets and we wanted to share some of the best. In the early days, one of the biggest selling points ...

Widgets have always been an important part of the Android experience, and there’s plenty you can do beyond just seeing the time and weather. When you unlock your phone in the morning, you can see 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 ...

Although there are many people who are dedicated iPhone users, plenty of people are also ardent supporters of Android. The mobile operating system has long been praised for its customization options ...

I had to check the weather, but there was a problem. My screen was a chaotic mess. A news ticker fed me headlines I didn't ask for. A to-do list widget showed me tasks I'd ignored, neatly listed, ...

With the arrival of Android 12 and Material You theming, it’s time to take a look at how to add and customize widgets once again. No, it’s not that the process has necessarily changed an awful lot. In ...

Google Translate has revealed plans for five new Android widgets that largely mirror existing shortcuts already available through the app icon.

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 ...

When Apple announced support for widgets in iOS 14, there was a jump of joy among iPhone fans. However, widgets have been available on Android for several years now. Android widgets allow you to place ...

Krystle Vermes is a Boston-based news reporter for Android Police. She is a graduate of the Suffolk University journalism program, and has more than a decade of experience as a writer and editor in ...