Android widgets and Jetpack Compose: Making your app fancy

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Shows how Android 12’s Jetpack Compose support for widgets uses the Glance framework but stops short of full Compose: many composables (Canvas, MaterialTheme, animations) are unsupported, so Glance provides its own modifiers and a limited set of layout primitives. Demonstrates a working calendar widget and a failing compose clock that is salvaged with a remote View bitmap fallback. Explains state sync via DataStore preferenceState, manual calls to updateAppWidgetState, and using WorkManager or AlarmManager for periodic updates.

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1. 0:00Android widgets importance
2. 1:49What is a widget
3. 3:57Evolution before Android 12
4. 6:28Old widget anatomy
5. 10:32Traditional widget limits
6. 12:39Jetpack Compose for widgets
7. 14:34Glance framework widgets
8. 17:29Glance unsupported features
9. 19:43Glance data and state
10. 21:51DataStore for updates
11. 24:46Modern widget architecture
12. 27:21Efficient update intervals
13. 31:17Unsupported features and workarounds
14. 33:03Widget future
15. 34:31Q&A

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