The third developer preview for the new OS, Android 12, dropped earlier this week, bringing with it the new “Conversations” widgets.

One exciting new feature in the Android 1.5 SDK is the AppWidget framework which allows developers to write “widgets” that people can drop onto their home screen and interact with.

Android widgets can do way more than you realize — if you know how to unleash their hidden potential.

Here’s a very early hands-on of what lock screen widget support will look like on tablets running Android 15.

Google has announced Android 16 will include lock screen widgets, catching up with iOS. Widgets will require authentication for security–fingerprint, PIN, and face unlock. Widgets are expected ...

Moments after Google posted the new Android 14 Developer Preview 2 files, we got it up and running on a Pixel 7 to see if we could find anything new and noteworthy. While Google already described ...