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 ...

Customization is a major part of why people choose Android smartphones. The ability to freely customize your home screen and the rest of the UI with just a few clicks is a great advantage that Android ...

After three months of beta testing, Android 12 QPR3 hit stable on Monday and is now more widely rolling out to Pixel phones. That said, one small bug with Android 12 QPR3 sees widgets often reload ...

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Following iOS last month, YouTube for Android now offers homescreen widgets that provide quick access to search and core parts of the app. Update 12/9: After officially being announced last week, ...

There are tons of widgets available for Android. Over the years, we’ve seen a lot of them pop up, and many of them are quite good. So, this list could go in a lot of different directions. Well, if you ...

Home screen widgets have been a part of Android from the very beginning and the first T-Mobile G1 in 2008. And for a long time, widgets were one of the first answers when you asked an avid Android ...

Google has significantly updated the Android Auto release pace, so new versions land nearly weekly in the beta and stable branches. The beta testing program certainly helped, allowing users to ...

With all due respect to smartphone apps, sometimes you don’t want to open a new program just to get some quick info or perform a minor task. That’s where Android widgets come in handy, bringing the ...

The Android Auto beta program has done wonders for the way the application is updated, with new builds rolling out for testers and production devices almost weekly. Even if these builds don't include ...