A folder or label can be chosen or select 'Primary' or 'Inbox' to see the standard view. A Google account must be chosen if there is more than one on the phone. Tapping the widget option will open a library of available widgets, and scrolling down to Gmail will allow dragging its widget to a home screen page. To get started, the user can press and hold at any unoccupied part of the screen, not an app or a widget, until a menu opens. The widget is very customizable, allowing resizing, moving it to any part of the home screen and any page. The new Gmail widget with Android's Material You styling rolled out in November of 2021, providing a super quick and effortless method of checking email without opening the app. Related: Here Are All The New Google Widgets Designed For Android 12 While Google's mobile operating system has had widgets for many years, Android 12 made them better and more consistent. In addition, plenty of little improvements, such as full-page screenshots, one-handed mode, and Wi-Fi sharing via QR code, add up to make the system more accessible and more refined. Google's Android 12 was a significant update, bringing a color theme based on wallpapers, system-wide and providing a uniform design to apps and utilities that makes more sense and helps users understand where to look for controls and information. Either way, it's easier and more noticeable to have news flow to the home screen in a widget than requiring the user to go looking for it within an app. The wonderful thing about widgets is that the information is more easily accessible, just a glance away or perhaps a swipe if placed on another page. Android 12 with its Material You theming unifies the look of the home screen, and Google's new Gmail widget takes advantage of that while providing a quick and easy look at what's in the inbox.

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