Home Screen Widgets

Add the Add Refuel widget to your Android home screen for one-tap fuel logging

What home screen widgets are available?

My Cars includes one Android home screen widget:

  • Add Refuel — a one-tap shortcut you place on your phone’s home screen that opens the refuel entry screen for a vehicle you choose. It can show the vehicle’s photo and name, and it resizes to fit your layout.

Looking for stats on a screen — fuel efficiency, costs, budgets, charts? Those live on the customizable in-app Dashboard, not on home screen widgets. See the Dashboard article.

A home screen widget sits on your Android home screen (outside the app). A dashboard widget is a card inside the app’s Dashboard. They’re different things — this page covers the home screen widget.

How do I add the Add Refuel widget?

On most Android devices:

  1. Long-press an empty area of your home screen
  2. Tap Widgets
  3. Find My Cars in the list
  4. Press and hold Add Refuel
  5. Drag it to your home screen and release

On Samsung devices:

  1. Pinch on the home screen
  2. Tap Widgets
  3. Search for “My Cars”
  4. Press and hold Add Refuel to place it

How do I choose which vehicle it logs for?

When you place the widget (or tap it to configure):

  • Vehicle — pick which vehicle the widget logs refuels for
  • Show vehicle photo — turn the car image on or off

Tap Save to apply. Add one widget per vehicle if you’d like a separate quick-refuel button for each car.

How do I use it?

Tap the widget and My Cars opens straight to the refuel entry screen for the selected vehicle — no need to open the app and navigate first. It’s the fastest way to log a fill-up at the pump.

How do I resize the widget?

  1. Long-press the widget until it’s selected
  2. Drag the resize handles to adjust
  3. Tap outside to confirm

Larger sizes show the vehicle photo and name alongside the button; smaller sizes show a compact button.

How do I remove the widget?

  1. Long-press the widget
  2. Drag it to Remove or tap the X
  3. The widget is removed — your app data is unaffected

Widget not appearing in the list?

If you can’t find the My Cars widget:

  1. Make sure the app is installed to internal storage (not on an SD card)
  2. Restart your device
  3. Update to the latest app version

Is more than one widget coming?

Today, Add Refuel is the only home screen widget. For at-a-glance stats, charts, budgets and insights, use the in-app Dashboard, which is fully customizable.

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