What is the difference between Views and widgets?

Question

If I am not wrong, View is the superclass for all widgets, but how do I differentiate between a View and a widget? For example, a button or a text box, what should I call them (a View or a widget)?

Answer 1

Calling them either is fine.

I tend to use the term "widget" for subclasses of View that have a visual representation to the user by default -- things like TextView, Button, ListView, etc.

I tend to use the term "view" for something that could be any subclass of View, including pure containers like LinearLayout.

But, again, there is no particular harm in referring to them by either term.