Refreshing widgets

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Android 12 adds concrete changes: native support for interactive compound buttons (checkboxes, switches), a reconfigurable flag plus configurationOptional to skip setup, previewLayout and description attributes for the widget picker, Assistant integration with capability tags and a widget helper SDK for TTS, system-level padding and corner radii, targetCell sizing and maxResize constraints, and dynamic color APIs plus smoother transitions and a Jetpack Compose widget library beta later this year; metrics cited: 84% use at least one widget, 63% use multiple, Google Keep widgets see 3.5× engagement since 2018.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 6:22Preview Layout
3. 6:47On-Device Search Assistant
4. 7:32Invoking Widgets through Voice
5. 7:58Multi-Step Interactions
6. 9:56Responsive Layouts
7. 10:14Widget Sizing
8. 11:03Dynamic Color Apis
9. 11:16Dynamic Colors
10. 11:26Transitions
11. 13:03Summary
12. 13:38Beta Launch

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