Beautify Your Android Screen With These Six Google Widgets

Six useful Google widgets for you (Photo: Pixabay)

JAKARTA - If you are an Android user for a long time, maybe some of you have felt bored with the screen display that is just like that. In fact, there are lots of very useful Google apps to add to your home screen and will certainly enhance its appearance.

The Google apps pre-installed on your phone include a variety of handy widgets that will help you get more done faster.

Beautiful wallpapers, your favorite apps and some useful widgets on it, that's what a great home screen looks like to you. This time, VOI will cover some very useful widgets from six Google apps that you should immediately add to your home screen, according to Makeuseof.

Quick Capture by Google Keep

If you have a habit of taking lots of notes on your Android device, the Quick Capture widget from Google Keep is a lifesaver. With this widget, you can quickly select the type of note you want to create without having to go into the app.

The widget lets you choose from five types of notes including text notes, lists, audio notes, images, and photo notes. By default, the widget uses 3x2 tiles on your home screen, but you can resize it to 2x1, 3x1, or 4x1 depending on your preference.

Find Nearby Places Quickly & Share Location with Google Maps

Quickly Find nearby places by Google Maps widget helps you navigate your neighborhood faster by displaying recommended tiles such as Home, Restaurant, Coffee and Hotel.

By default, the widget uses 3x2 tiles on the home screen, but you can resize it to 2x2 or 4x2. You can see a minimum of four and a maximum of eight recommendations.

World by Google Jam

As the name suggests, the World widget by Google Clock is a simple world clock. While other clock widgets are more limited, Google Clock lets you add a large number of cute cities up to 32 cities

You may not really need this feature, but it's still a great tool for showing the time of several cities at once. By default, the widget takes up 4x2 tiles on your home screen, but you can resize it to almost any configuration.

Google News Widget

Many use Google News to catch up on relevant news. If you're one of them, you can use the app's widgets to view interesting headlines about topics you are interested in. Recommendations are based on what Google knows about you.

This widget also has a built-in weather tool to tell the temperature. You can skip the title if you find it uninteresting or tap Full Coverage if you like it and want to read the whole article. The widget takes up 4x2 tiles on the home screen and cannot be resized.

Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides Widgets

If you are someone who is heavily invested in Google Workspace products and uses Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides on a daily basis, it might be helpful to place their respective widgets on your home screen.

Each widget takes only 1x1 tiles and helps you quickly create new documents, spreadsheets or presentations.

Quick Action by Google Drive

With the Drive by Google Drive quick actions widget, you can quickly search, upload, or scan files in your Google Drive. The widget takes up 3x1 tiles by default but can be resized to 2x1, 3x2, or 4x1. It has the same look as the Google Keep Quick Capture widget.

In the widget, you'll see five different buttons that give you shortcuts to common tasks:

Drive: Open the Google Drive app. Search: Search for files in your Drive. Upload: Upload files from your phone storage to your Drive. Camera: Take a photo and save it directly to your Drive. Add: Create a new folder, Docs, Sheets, or Slides to store in your Drive.