![]() Widgets also tend to always stay on top, unlike application windows, which are easily covered by other apps. After all, one can resize app windows to small sizes and position them on the desktop. Widgets often have irregular borders and take on non-rectangular shapes, unlike apps. Widgets differ from apps in that they don’t exist within a standard window. Weather, stock quotes, news, flight information and other simple tasks work well as widgets. Frequently accessed information works well in widget format. For example, a stock widget allows users to quickly check quotes without launching an app. Widgets are small apps arranged on a desktop or home screen for easy access. The Android mobile operating system, developed by Google, was created by software engineers using Mac OS X computers featuring widgets. ![]() The first Android smartphone didn’t exist until 2008.Apple launched its own widget engine in OS X Lion (2005) based on Konfabulator, the product of third party developers. ![]()
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