Wear Widgets
A widget form on Wear OS built on Jetpack Glance. It shares the same infrastructure as Android phone widgets and supports two standard container sizes, small and large.
Timeline (last 90 days)
Google has formally evolved Wear OS Tiles into Wear Widgets and brought them into the unified Android Widgets ecosystem, sharing the Jetpack Glance infrastructure with phone widgets.
Google introduced two standard container sizes for Wear Widgets, small and large, corresponding respectively to the familiar 2x1 and 2x2 grid formats in phone widgets.
Starting with Wear 7, on devices from some hardware manufacturers, Wear Widgets will appear in a vertically scrolling tray alongside widgets from other apps; the talk demonstrated the actual effect with a Samsung Galaxy Watch.
Google added Compose Preview support for Wear Widgets, adding a parameter provider on top of the standard preview annotation to inject OEM-specific container constraints; the library includes preset preview parameter provider implementations that match real Wear OS devices.
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Google introduced two standard container sizes for Wear Widgets, small and large, corresponding respectively to the familiar 2x1 and 2x2 grid formats in phone widgets.
50%UnverifiedStarting with Wear 7, on devices from some hardware manufacturers, Wear Widgets will appear in a vertically scrolling tray alongside widgets from other apps; the talk demonstrated the actual effect with a Samsung Galaxy Watch.
50%UnverifiedGoogle has formally evolved Wear OS Tiles into Wear Widgets and brought them into the unified Android Widgets ecosystem, sharing the Jetpack Glance infrastructure with phone widgets.
50%UnverifiedGoogle added Compose Preview support for Wear Widgets, adding a parameter provider on top of the standard preview annotation to inject OEM-specific container constraints; the library includes preset preview parameter provider implementations that match real Wear OS devices.
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