Enlarging certain widgets on Android reveals extra buttons.

The Google Home Favorites widget for Android is now available to all users running Android 12 or newer. The widget previously required users to join the Public Preview program. This widget lets 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 ...

Announced at the end of May, the Google Home Favorites widget on Android no longer requires that you join the Public Preview program. The Google Home widget provides “Quick control of your actions, ...

After updating the Individual variant with message and call notifications, as well as shared location, earlier this year, Google Contacts has rolled out a redesign of the Favorite contacts widget. The ...

I cover Android with a focus on productivity, automation, and Google’s ecosystem, including Gemini and everyday apps. With a background in engineering and software development, I tend to go beyond ...

Thanks to Android being open-source, there's a myriad of widgets available on the Google Play Store. Widgets are small tools or applications that can be added to your Home screen to perform certain ...