Information widgets

Widgets are not the same as the shortcut icons that allow you to launch an app. Android widgets generally display data and take up more space than 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.

Types of Widgets: There are broadly two types of widgets in the flutter:

There are, in general, four types of widgets: information widgets, collection widgets, control widgets, and hybrid widgets .

There are given a lot of android widgets with simplified examples such as Button, EditText, AutoCompleteTextView, ToggleButton, DatePicker, TimePicker, ProgressBar etc.

A series of widget types is available for the most basic uses cases.