Widgets have been around on macOS and iOS for years. Here's how to use Apple's WidgetKit to create your own versions. Apple introduced Widgets years ago first in macOS Tiger and later in iOS 14 in ...

This application note serves as a useful guide in creating customized Widgets. The essential components of a Widget are enumerated and described in this document. This application note also outlines ...

A few days ago, as I was playing around with my Lock Screen on iOS 16, I wondered: would it be possible to use the hidden Apple Notes URL scheme to create widget launchers to reopen specific notes in ...

In Samsung’s One UI 4.1, Smart Widgets for Galaxy phones were introduced to make things a little easier. These specialized widgets are stackable and can house several widgets at once. Here’s how you ...

Make your life easier by adding some widgets to your iPhone. Your calendar app is handy—tap it open, and your entire life is laid out in front of you. Now imagine you can see your day without ever ...

Windows 11 widgets could become more useful in the coming months. Microsoft revealed at its Build developer conference that the operating system will start supporting widgets for third-party apps ...

In iPadOS, the old Today View has shuffled over a little, and now lives right on the Home screen. You can pin widgets there, and they will be permanently shown on the left edge of the Home screen (in ...

I’ve never been a big fan of the Philips Hue app. It has improved over time, and I appreciate its fine-grained control over my lights and its Shortcuts support, but the app has always felt a little ...

Many Android users love to customize their phones, and are constantly trying to find new ways to do it. Well, an app called AppBar may help you out with that. This app allows you to create scrollable ...

I'm going to preface this piece by saying the choice of widgets is personal, and what might be useful to me might not be useful to you. Even so, there's a widget for everyone, and depending on the ...

Chandraveer, a seasoned mechanical design engineer turned tech reporter and reviewer, brings more than three years of rich experience in consumer tech journalism to the table, having contributed to ...

Last time, I assembled a Python object representing a Rigol oscilloscope. Manipulating the object communicates with the scope over the network. But my original goal was to build a little GUI window to ...