From the course: Android App Development: Working with Widgets
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Introduction to widgets development - Android Tutorial
From the course: Android App Development: Working with Widgets
Introduction to widgets development
- [Instructor] If you're not familiar with widgets, they are the extensions of your application that you can install almost anywhere in your app to get a summarized view of an application. They can be moved anywhere, and be resized as the users see fit. Android documentation speaks of a few different types of widgets you can decide to develop. So let's explore these different categories. You have the information type, which provides a summary of information from the main application. A weather app is a good example. Then you have control widgets, which allow you to do specific task in the widget. For example, a to-do list widget would allow you to quickly add new to-do items. You also have a collection widget, which allows you to see a list of items inside of a widget. For example, the list of to-dos or your emails. And in most cases, your widgets will be a combination of those. So a to-do application widget most likely would have the current list of to-dos, and then also be able to…
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