Jetpack Glance
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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 with less code. The pages in this documentation set describe
how to use Glance to build app widgets.
Get started
Before you start, make sure you have the Glance dependencies in your
project.
Additional resources
For more information about canonical layouts, see
Canonical widget layouts. For more information about making your widget
high quality and discoverable, see Widget quality.
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Last updated 2026-09-15 UTC.
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