One of the main selling points of the Android platform is its ability to provide rich widgets from the home screen of the device. Here we will explore what they are, how to manage them, use them, and some other things to know about widgets. Widgets are another way which Android allows you to customize and bring your personality into your Android device.

If you have grown tired of the standard built in background that comes with Android, it may be now time to change your background to something meaningful to you. In Android the background image is something that you can customize, either with pictures from your email, pictures from your computer or even images you take with the camera on your phone to provide a background image that spans 3 or more widths of the screen (depending which phone model you have) and is truly personalized.