Widgets have been a part of Android since its beginning, but their diffusion has often been kept back by a complex development process.

That has changed with Jetpack Glance, a modern framework powered by Jetpack Compose that significantly simplifies widget creation.

In this talk, we'll journey through widgets, understanding what they are, what the common use cases are and how they works under the hood.

We'll also dive deep into Jetpack Glance, exploring its features and benefits. But we won't stop at theory – we'll build a widget for an existing app, addressing real-world issues often overlooked in basic documentation.