What are application Widgets on android?

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Application Widgets on Android:
What are application Widgets on android?

Android application widgets are small apps that run on your Android screens. Generally, it is a shortcut icon that is used to provide different types of functionality in your app.
Android widgets generally display data and take space as a single icon. For example, weather widgets show data about local weather forecasts. Widgets can also be interactive or resizable, such as a sticky note widget
Application widgets are the combination of different android UI widgets. Like-
  • Button
  • TextView
  • EditText
  • ImageView
  • Button
  • DatePicker
  • RadioButton
  • Checkbox
  • Toast, CustomToast
  • Spinner
  • AlertDialog
  • ListView, Custom ListView
  • WebView
  • TabLayout
  • SearchView
  • Progressbar
Creating your application layout widgets:
If you want to create your application widgets then different types of layout you can use like-
  • FrameLayout
  • GridLayout
  • Tablelayout
  • Co-ordinatorLayout
  • ConstraintLayout
  • LinearLayout
  • RelativeLayout