Once you've added the widget a home screen, just tap on it to update. It'll say Online, Unknown, Unstable, or Offline.We scrape the data from this website: http://cmmcd.com/PokemonGo/
Since it is a crowd based site, the actual server status may not be accurately reflect by the site.
This is an unofficial Android app. We are not affiliated, endorsed, sponsored, etc by Niantic, The Pokemon Company, or Nintendo.