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Widget

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

/ˈwɪdʒɪt/nounCommon term

In software engineering, widget means: A small view from an app that shows live information on the home screen or lock screen, such as the weather or the next meeting, without opening the app.

In Turkish: widget, ana ekran bileşeni

How it is used

On iOS, widgets are built with WidgetKit; on Android they are app widgets, now often built with Jetpack Glance. Users add a widget to the home screen and choose its size. In Flutter the word means any UI building block, so context matters.

Example sentences

  1. Users can now add a widget that shows their daily step count.

  2. The widget shows yesterday's balance because it doesn't refresh often enough.

Common collocations

  • home screen widget
  • add a widget
  • lock screen widget
  • widget refresh
  • FlutterGoogle's open-source framework for building mobile, web and desktop apps from one codebase; it uses the Dart language and draws its own UI on the screen.
  • app iconThe small image that represents an app on the home screen, in the store and in the settings; it is often the first thing users notice.
  • componentA reusable, self-contained piece of a user interface, such as a button, modal or product card, with its own markup, styles and logic.
  • backgroundThe state of an app that is still running or kept in memory but is not visible on the screen, for example after the user switches to another app.

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