What is Android glance?

Android makes it easy to customize what is shown in this Pixel 6 widget simply by pressing and holding the widget . A menu will appear, and tapping ‘Customize’ will open the home screen options. Tapping the gear icon beside ‘At A Glance’ will show location settings and several toggles that are enabled by default.

Last December, Google announced the alpha version of Jetpack Glance library for making App Widgets . This new tools allow us to use Jetpack Compose like style, making it faster and easier to create expressive and responsible widgets for our application.10 Oca 2022

Glance is a recent addition to the suite of Jetpack libraries . It was introduced to make it faster and easier to build app widgets for surfaces such as the home screen. Glance is built on top of the Jetpack Compose runtime and requires Compose to be enabled in order to be used.