What you could know
- Google Calendar’s Android app now features a dropdown menu beneath the present month’s view, providing fast entry to navigation chips for seamless month switching.
- Customers can preview as much as 4 months forward and simply scroll left or proper to pick out a desired month.
- Regardless of being a part of a selected app model, the replace is probably going rolled out server-side, guaranteeing widespread availability.
Google Calendar simply ironed out a pesky little annoyance we have usually confronted when planning months forward. The Android app now makes switching between months a breeze with new navigation chips.
On one in all our gadgets with Google Calendar (model 2024.13.1-624115131-release) put in, there is a new dropdown under the present month’s view. Tapping on it brings up a row of chips that permit you to bounce between months on the go.
You’ll be able to take a look at about 4 months forward (nevertheless it would possibly fluctuate primarily based on how massive your display is), and you may scroll left or proper to select a month rapidly, whether or not it is sooner or later or the previous.
The change was first noticed by former Android Police editor Manuel Vonau, who seen these chips within the Schedule view on the app (by way of 9to5Google). You could find them snugly nestled between the month-to-month calendar and the agenda record. The identical is true for the Day and Week views.
Google Calendar simply added month chips for me under the month part within the agenda view 👀 I guess it is server-side, however I am on model 2024.13.1-624115131-release pic.twitter.com/xbZ1hYKxlwApril 24, 2024
As you’ll be able to see within the screenshots under, the chips do take up a little bit of house in these views, nevertheless it’s not likely an enormous deal given how small they’re. In the meantime, the chips are positioned proper above the dates within the Month view.
This new bar appears to allow you to scroll all the way in which forward, so you’ll be able to zoom into the long run by years, and even many years, in a flash.
Whereas the characteristic is current in model 2024.13.1-624115131-release, Vonau factors out that it is seemingly a server-side replace.
The Calendar app already allows you to swipe left and proper to maneuver by the months, however these new chips make it approach simpler to hop to a selected month.
Chips play an enormous function within the Android expertise. Some, just like the good chips on Sheets and different Google Workspace apps, pack a punch. Then there are search chips, which landed on apps like Google Drive not too way back, serving to customers discover their recordsdata in a flash.
With these recent chips popping up in Calendar, it is clear Google has a ton of choices for utilizing chips in its ecosystem.