Data-backed app widget development — with Jetpack Glance
summary
The talk presents rebuilding Android app widgets using Jetpack Glance to improve retention and avoid App Standby Buckets, including a new combined search+launcher widget. It describes instrumenting layout and size metrics (header height, one‑pane vs multi‑pane) and using those metrics and an in‑app banner to guide redesign and rollouts, reporting outcomes like ~8× higher usage among Android widget installers, higher deletion after redesign, and a 30% conversion from the targeted banner to widget install.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Data-backed widget intro
- 6:00Why widgets matter
- 8:27Widget benefits
- 16:29Analyzing widget metrics
- 24:20Targeted widget promotion
- 29:30Promotion results
- 30:35Jetpack Glance coding
- 34:57OS version differences
- 40:57Q&A
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