How to Add Clock Widget to Your Android 12 Home Screen – Guide
In case you didn’t know, “Material You” is the way to go for this year’s Android release and with Android 12 nearing its stable release date, Google is applying all the finishing touches to its mobile OS and is putting more control in users’ hands to allow them to have their own themed devices. If you’re not familiar with the whole “Material You” thing, it’s a new customization tool that will live natively within Android 12 and will help you apply custom colors to the system UI based on the wallpaper you’ve chosen. Over the past few months, we’ve explained How to customize Material You on Android 12, configure the Gboard to match your wallpaper, and apply the Material You theme to the Google search bar. In this post, we’ll help you add a new Material You-inspired Clock widget on Android 12 Home Screen.
How to Get Material You Clock Widget on Android
The new clock widget is only available at Pixel Smartphones with Android 12 Beta 5. If you have already enrolled your device in the Android 12 Beta program, you can update it to Beta 5 by opening the Settings app and going to System > System Update. If an update is available for your device, it will show up on the next screen from where you can download and install it. Once the latest beta version is installed, you can access the Material You Clock widget directly from your Home Screen.
How to Add Material You Clock Widget to your Home Screen
After running the latest version of Android 12 Beta 5 on your Pixel device, you can now add the Material You Clock widget to your Home Screen. To do this, tap and hold on an empty area of your Home Screen and select the ‘Widgets’ option from the floating menu. You should now see the pop-up menu.up Widgets on screen, showing a list of all widgets that can be added to your Android 12 Home Screen. Here, scroll down and tap the ‘Clock’ section. Within this section you will find four different widgets, all serving different purposes. Analog clock You can tap and hold the analog clock widget from within the ‘Clock’ section and drag it to the desired part of your Home Screen. As you do, you should see the new analog clock widget appear on your Home Screen in a shape that resembles a scallop. With the Dark theme turned off, the widget will have a lighter background with dark colors to indicate the hour and minute hands and a circle to represent the “seconds” hand. The analog clock will take up a darker background with light colored hands when your device’s dark theme is turned on. Digital watch You can tap and hold the ‘Digital Clock’ widget from within the ‘Clock’ section and drag it to the desired part of your Home Screen. The Android 12 digital clock widget comes with a horizontal pill-shaped design that shows today’s date and day at the top, followed by the time in large letters. This is what it looks like when the Android dark theme is enabled. Stacked clock You can tap and hold the ‘Stacked’ widget from within the ‘Clock’ section and drag it to the desired part of your Home Screen. The Stacked widget provides the same information as the digital clock widget, but this time the pill’s design is inverted to be shown vertically instead of horizontally. When you activate your device’s dark theme, this is what it looks like. world clock You can tap and hold the ‘World’ widget from within the ‘Clock’ section and drag it to the desired part of your Home Screen. The World widget will show times from two different time zones if you’ve added them to the Google Clock app. When enabled, you should see two square boxes with rounded corners and slightly different themes added to your Home Screen. When you turn on the Dark theme, these widgets get darker backgrounds with lighter colored text.
Why does the Clock widget on Android 12 change color?
By default, the new Clock widget on Android 12 applies the wallpaper color you selected in the ‘Wallpaper & Style’ app. This is the same color set applied to other system UI elements such as settings, notifications, quick sets and other apps. In our tests, we noticed that the Clock widget doesn’t necessarily apply the color you selected in ‘Wallpaper and Style’, but changes its colors as you drag it across the wallpaper. This is because the clock widget is designed to carry up Theme colors based on the position of the wallpaper where it is placed. In the footage below, you’ll notice that the Clock widget’s colors change as it’s dragged from one position to another. The widget first appears with a whitish background color above the areas highlighted in orange. This background changes to a lighter shade of green when the watch is moved lower to an area that focuses more on the green side of the spectrum.
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