Back in October, the Google Home app team said it was working on a homescreen widget. We might now have our first look at the design as Google at I/O 2024 worked to encourage widget adoption.
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Pocket Casts for Android has long offered a single widget and an upcoming update will overhaul it, while introducing two new options for your homescreen.
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The Google app on Android has rolled out an updated “Finance Watchlist” widget that offers a pair of usability tweaks following its mid-to-late 2023 introduction.
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The Wikipedia app has long offered widgets, but they haven’t been refreshed in quite a while and look like something from the early days of Android. An update today greatly modernizes the design.
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After introducing a Finance Watchlist for your homescreen earlier this year, the Google app on Android is getting ready to add a Sports widget.
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Google is updating the Individual Contact Android widget it introduced earlier this year to bring more Material You flourishes.
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A big update to Apple Music that’s currently in beta adds new Android homescreen widgets from iOS 17, as well as other features from the latest iPhone and iPad release.
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The Google TV and Finance Watchlist widgets ostensibly announced for Android tablets in June are now seeing wide availability on phones.
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The Nothing Phone (2) is looking at its third significant update since release. The new Nothing OS version adds new UI elements, a new compass widget, and another app that can take advantage of the Nothing Phone (2)’s arguably coolest feature – Glyph Progress.
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Android is rolling out its quarterly drop of new features today, with a redesign of the Assistant At a Glance widget being the highlight.
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Spotify last month updated its Android app with a new homescreen widget that combines playback controls and recommendations.
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Before the big redesign that we’ve previously enabled, At a Glance is getting an “About this content” section.
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The Google Contacts app is preparing a new redesign to its single-contact widget, bringing a more subtle look and feel.
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Following last month’s announcement, Google Calendar for Android is now rolling out a Material You redesign of its two homescreen widgets.
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Earlier this month, we reported how the At a Glance widget is getting a big Material You redesign. Google is still actively working on this new At a Glance, including the ability to customize the widget.
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As announced at the start of this month, Tech News is getting updated Material You widgets that are now rolling out.
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The Android team’s quarterly release of new features is rolling out today. You can find the Wear OS additions here, but most of them, like new Google widgets, are for phones and tablets.
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As we’ve been expecting since November, Google Contacts for Android now offers an “Individual Contact” homescreen widget, while some are also seeing “Favorite Contacts.”
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After rolling out a Material You redesign in December, the Google TV Android app is now readying a homescreen widget.
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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.
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Back in 2018, Google introduced a customizable Search widget and is now making those personalization options more apparent by supporting the changes introduced in Android 12+.
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Google is continuing its Android tablet push with widgets optimized for large screens. The first tablet widgets are coming from Google Drive and Keep.
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At this point, Google’s biggest Android apps have been updated with Material You. Redesigns are widely rolled out, but widget availability varies depending on whether you have a Pixel or Samsung device running Android 12. The following is our running tally of which Google app Material You widgets are available where.
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Back in December, Google announced new widgets for Photos and YouTube Music. An updated widget featuring Material You for Play Books was also previewed and is now widely rolled out.
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