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Jetpack Glance is a framework built on top of the Jetpack Compose runtime
that lets you develop and design app widgets using Kotlin APIs. App widgets
are miniature application views that can be embedded in other applications and
receive periodic updates.
Figure 1. An information widget from a weather app.
Glance provides a set of composables to help you build responsive widgets for
the home screen quickly and with less code. The pages in this doc set describe
how to use Glance to build app widgets.
Additional resources
For more information on canonical layouts visit Canonical widget layouts.
For more information on making your widget high quality and discoverable,
see Widget quality.
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Last updated 2025-05-13 UTC.
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