Jetpack Glance

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.

Note: Jetpack Glance is in active development. File any issues on the issue tracker.

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.

Caution: Glance requires Compose to be enabled and depends on Runtime, Graphics, and Unit UI Compose layers, but it's not directly interoperable with other existing Jetpack Compose UI elements. Avoid mixing the two.