If your Android home screen is becoming a mess of app icons, there's a better way to both organize it and make it look better. Widgets are the unsung heroes of phone customization. They sit right ...

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

Plenty of us have downloaded apps with all the best intentions, only to end up using just one small feature. Sometimes their real value isn't inside the app itself, but in the small, dynamic windows ...

I'm going to preface this piece by saying the choice of widgets is personal, and what might be useful to me might not be useful to you. Even so, there's a widget for everyone, and depending on the ...

We have a more detailed look at Android’s upcoming lock screen widgets feature. We previously showed off what lock screen widgets look like in an earlier Android 15 beta release, but we’ve decided to ...

Don’t you hate it when you don’t have enough space on one screen for all of your widgets? This is where stackable widgets come in. They allow you to combine your widgets into folders like you can with ...

The Android team has long offered quality tiers for apps on Wear OS, Large Screen, and other form factors. As part of this week’s push, Google is highlighting the Android Widget Quality Tiers. These ...

CarPlay recently started adding more widget support with the release of iOS 26, and it looks like Android might follow suit in the weeks ahead, at least according to a new APK teardown of a beta ...

Google is reportedly working on a new feature for Android Auto called “home screen widgets.” Interestingly, you can add these widgets directly from your Android phone. Once added, the widgets appear ...

Google has updated Gmail for Android’s homescreen widget with Material 3 Expressive tweaks. The primary change is how the FAB (floating action button) for composing an email in the top-right corner is ...