Is the Glance widget API available to use yet? or ...

# compose

[enighma]

Is the Glance widget API available to use yet? or is it coming in a later androidx release?

Context:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15Q7xqxBGG0&t=1s▾

[Ian Lake]

Only snapshots as of yet. See this thread for more details: https://twitter.com/marxallski/status/1453722222929928212

[enighma]

Great thanks! I wouldn't mind trying out a snapshot build 🙂

[Ian Lake]

Yep, the instructions for how to do so is in that thread

[suhas]

I recently spent three months developing a complex widget using the primitive way 😭 Looking forward to rewrite it again. Great news though!

[Piotr Prus]

Fingers crossed for glance.

[enighma]

It's promising, but there are some pretty significant missing pieces. For instance not being able to connect which widgetid a composable is for.

The compose part is also missing features you can do with RemoteViews. Like using weights for instance. Something Column/Row in regular compose support.

However, it can all be solved, and for what it can do it's way better than RemoteViews. Just need a bit more polishing and features 🙂