This skill provides guidance for managing state updates and keeping Android AppWidgets that use Jetpack Glance (androidx.glance:glance-appwidget) or RemoteViews within the Android 17 widget bitmap memory limits. For widget UI layout templates, suggest the glance-canonical-layouts skill.

When configuring a Glance widget, see Create an app widget with Glance.
When targeting Android 17 (targetSdk = 37), see Android 17 widget memory limits.
When maintaining a classic AppWidgetProvider, see Create an app widget.

Prerequisites

Kotlin Android project (minSdk >= 26) with compileSdk = 37 (targetSdk = 37 when targeting Android 17) in build.gradle.kts.
Jetpack Glance (1.2.0, minimum 1.1.1+) and the Compose compiler Gradle plugin enabled on the module.

glance-appwidget-updates-and-memory

Prerequisites

Critical mandates