Google calendar is not a strange application to Android users. It comes as a system application and provide interface to Google Calendar right in your Smartphone or Tablet. Yes, if you have a Samsung phone, you must be using ‘S Calendar’, but believe me, it’s nowhere nearly polished as original Google Calendar.
Couple of days ago Google released update for Google Calendar Android app. It actually solved many major problems it had for several years and it’s something worth taking a closer look at.
New Features
These updates are mainly in UI and letting you to access options which are already there in web Google Calendar.
Event Colors and Default Calendar
When you are creating events and editing them with Android app now you can change the color. This is the most awaited feature and it’s kinda too late to come for the Android app. When you go to edit mode, tap the color pallet icon to change the color.
Time and Date Picker
The UI’s date and time picker is changed and now it’s cleaner and snappy. Previously if you want to delay an event by a week, it was pretty difficult. With the new interface, you just need one tap.
New time picker looks like an analog clock, same as the date picker clean and snappy. You can move hands to set hours and minutes. There are two buttons to change AM and PM.
For every selection you are getting a hepatic feedback confirming it.
Recurring Event Options
When you go to reciting event options, it’s giving you better control. Especially you can specify when to stop repeating. At the top there is a master switch to ON and OFF everything.
Good job Google! You gave us many of the most awaited features. Now Google calendar is almost perfect.
I’d like to point out one other thing you can include in next updates. In Android app there is no way for me to change the calendar assigned to an event after creating it. But this options is there in the web app. It’s cool if you can bring it right in to Android app too.
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