Widgets arrive on CarPlay with iOS 26, transforming the dashboard into a smarter, swipeable hub for quick, glanceable app ...

Since the early days of the OS, widgets for Android have allowed users to engage with their favourite apps, from the comfort of their homescreen. So how do you create an Android widget? For the ...

Twitter Search is great. Unfortunately, unlike FriendFeed’s search, it doesn’t update live in real-time. Sure, for some searches, that would be annoying. But it’d be nice to at least have the option ...

iPhone widgets are used to quickly glance at information from frequently-used apps—here’s how to add them to both a lock screen and home screen, stack them and troubleshoot them. iPhone widgets ...

In this week’s Dashboard roundup, I cover ways to keep your Widgets up to date, see your iTunes stats, quickly find fraction/decimal equivalents, and preview snippets of HTML. And, of course, there’s ...

Apple is pushing widgets hard on all of its operating systems. Widgets are like mini-apps or shortcuts that you can add to your iPhone’s home screen to get quick information without opening an app.

Below notifications are widgets. They look just like the widgets introduced with iOS and iPadOS 14 because they’re built the same way using SwiftUI. Also, like the iPad, widgets are tied to a ...

The concept of widgets is becoming increasingly popular, on both the desktop and web. Widgets usually provide a rich graphical interface for small features which often do not deserve a full fledged ...

This application note serves as a useful guide in creating customized Widgets. The essential components of a Widget are enumerated and described in this document. This application note also outlines ...

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 ...