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title: "What are application Widgets on android?"  
description: "What are application Widgets on android?"  
author: "Uthkarsh pal"  
published: 2018-01-23  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/33495/what-are-application-widgets-on-android  
category: "technology"  
tags: ["android"]  
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# What are application Widgets on android?

What are [application](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/12824/calculator-application-in-android) [Widgets](https://www.mindstick.com/interview/22866/what-type-of-listener-is-used-to-get-the-ratings-from-the-ratingbar-widgets) on [android](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/84568/iphone-vs-android-how-to-choose-the-best-smartphone)?

## Answers

### Answer by Arti Mishra

**Application Widgets on Android:** ![What are application Widgets on android?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/a77078ee-3516-42d0-badc-b606d2d9027c/images/7175ab89-ae1c-4667-a894-c506fbaaf4f1.png)**\****\**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

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