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16 <p>As you begin planning your widget, think about what kind of widget you're trying to build. Widgets typically fall into one of the following categories:</p>
53 <p>For the purpose of your widget planning, center your widget around one of the base types and add elements of other types if needed.</p>
59 <p>While widgets could be understood as "mini apps", there are certain limitations that are important to understand before you start to embark on designing your widget:</p>
76 <p>Widgets are a great mechanism to attract a user to your app by "advertising" new and interesting content that is available for consumption in your app.</p>
77 <p>Just like the teasers on the front page of a newspaper, widgets should consolidate and concentrate an app's information and then provide a connection to richer detail within the app; or in other words: the widget is the information "snack" while the app is the "meal." As a bottom line, always make sure that your app shows more detail about an information item than what the widget already displays.</p>
80 <p>Besides the pure information content, you should also consider to round out your widget's offering by providing navigation links to frequently used areas of your app. This lets users complete tasks quicker and extends the functional reach of the app to the home screen.</p>
84 <li>Open application at top level: Tapping on an information element will usually navigate the user to a lower level detail screen. Providing access to the top level of your application provides more navigation flexibility and can replace a dedicated app shortcut that users would otherwise use to navigate to the app from the home screen. Using your application icon as an affordance can also provide your widget with a clear identity in case the data you're displaying is ambiguous.</li>
91 constraints of the home panel placement grid. You can decide if your widget is freely resizable or
93 your particular widget is inherently fixed-size.</p>
109 <p>Planning a resize strategy for your widget depends on the type of widget you're creating. List or grid-based collection widgets are usually straightforward because resizing the widget will simply expand or contract the vertical scrolling area. Regardless of the widget's size, the user can still scroll all information elements into view. Information widgets on the other hand require a bit more hands-on planning, since they are not scrollable and all content has to fit within a given size. You will have to dynamically adjust your widget's content and layout to the size the user defined through the resize operation.</p>
112 <p>For each widget size determine how much of your app's information should surface. For smaller sizes concentrate on the essential and then add more contextual information as the widget grows horizontally and vertically.</p>
115 <p>It will be tempting to layout your widgets according to the dimensions of the placement grid of a particular device that you own and develop with. This can be a useful initial approximation as you layout your widget, but keep the following in mind:</p>
117 <li>The number, size and spacing of cells can vary widely from device to device, and hence it is very important that your widget is flexible and can accommodate more or less space than anticipated.</li>
118 <li>In fact, as the user resizes a widget, the system will respond with a dp size range in which your widget can redraw itself. Planning your widget resizing strategy across "size buckets" rather than variable grid dimensions will give you the most reliable results.</li>
140 <li>Focus on small portions of glanceable information on your widget. Expand on the information in your app.</li>
141 <li>Choose the right widget type for your purpose.</li>
142 <li>For resizable widgets, plan how the content for your widget should adapt to different sizes.</li>
143 <li>Make your widget orientation and device independent by ensuring that the layout is capable of stretching and contracting.</li>
