Every day brings something new. The newness of today is the redesigned Google Calendar. The app was put under construction and debuts with a new look to reflect the guidelines recommended with Android 5.0 Lollipop. Simply put, Google Calendar will satisfy for Material Design craving for a bit. It is absolutely beautiful and works just as well as ever. Google added a feature in which the app will incorporate events pulled from Gmail. And the new Assists feature will learn about your use patterns and tailor the app appropriately.
The new Google Calendar app works with devices running Android 4.1 and above.
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Material Design has all the depth of Windows 2.0 while allowing less control over shitty software. It give programmers an excuse to be lazy. They call it minimalism, I call it pathetic & gutless.
My week has 7 days and those days tend to have between 9 and 12 hours of stuff to do. The new app shows me 6 hours for 5 days in the vertical position and about 4 hours for 7 days in horizontal. You can’t zoom in or out. It is utter rubbish, sorry, it has made the calendar totally useless to me. I have invested about half a day figuring out an alternative that also shows me days hour by hour with the spare slots in between like Google calendar used to do beautifully, alas, I seem unable to find one. My time is very precious and while I appreciate Google is “free” (yes, I am the product on sale, we all are), it baffles me that they would take the typically Apple-esque “form over function and we decide what proper form is” approach that made me leave the fruit seller club. Looking into going back to paper but this will mean having to do my planning twice as I need to coordinate with other people too.
Absolute fail in my opinion.
I had the same issue – I’ve settled with TodayCalendar. I actually really like the HTC calendar, but because I’m running the google launcher I can’t use it’s widgets.
The new calendar app is Not a calendar – it looks like what a 4 year old would use to learn about calendars – Calendars are are a serious thing for grown up’s to quickly and efficiently see and enter appointments – that is all – anything else should be an optional addon! and the new google dialler is even worse – if I want to dial a number I should be able to get to the number pad immeditely – and not have to fiddle around with 5 presses before I can see it. It is a telephone after all not a kids toy! uuuurrrgghhhh
I freaking love it. I turn it to landscape view and I get 7 days. I use the Agenda view in portrait and am really happy with it. I haven’t used Google Calendar on Android for a long time. I am coming over from Cozi. So perhaps that’s why I’m not “missing” things that used to be there. Really though, using this for my personal (and not work) calendar, I really really like it.
This is the first app that Google has put out that just doesn’t work for me
Even Google gets things WAAAY wrong sometimes. This is one of them. BAck to the drawing board Google until you can give people a calendar with 7 days in a week SOME of us work 7 day rosters NOT 9 -5 in an office.
Yes, it is stunning–ly bad!
More whitespace. Less content. More “whimsy.” Less usefulness. More discovery. Less consistency.
More mindless dogma spread by mindless propaganda like articles such as this.
Why don’t you take your uncritical “journalism” and type it in on your Willy Wonka phone–if you can stomach the new gobstoppers they call apps. Seriously, this candy-themed design has gone way too far. They’re like “Wonka wonks”: people who mindlessly apply the design dogma of the day, inflicting it upon the rest of us like a disease. If only I had a Golden Ticket…
You must have been paid to write this article. The new calendar is absolutely terrible. “Works just as well as ever” is a load of BS from someone who probably doesn’t use this app day to day.
Either paid or just kissing-up to the almighty Emperor Google. He mustn’t admit that he has no clothes!
On first sight the app does seem umm…scaled back. The process of creating an appointment or event is interesting though. Especially on a tablet. I also like how it integrates with Google Maps.
I am ‘stunned’ indeed for having some such a terrible update. I am not able to use it. The month view with the different color coding was the beauty of the previous calendar. Awful update.
The average review on the update has been 1 star. The google+ new design is total garbage. It’s the exact reason I don’t like Windows or ios.
1 Star? Don’t think so. Over 205 thousand seem to think otherwise. Is whining your typical reaction to everything?
Look at just the reviews for “latest version only” Maybe it’s 2 star average, by estimate. Consensus is in : IT SUCKS!
Way to live up to your username, guy.
I’m seeing mixed reviews, not even enough to say that the average is one star.
Obviously you were stunned when you wrote this. It’s gone from an efficient calendar view to a stunted crayola app with barely half the screen space available for events. Not even space for an event title to be fully displayed, pinch zoom lost, left hand “time” column now 3x previous width to accommodate “:00” after every number. Well for that we lost two days off the week view plus our full event titles.
Was this article written by a Google bot? It’s pathetic these gushing and mindless auto-reviews. Hello?!
Read the recent play store reviews for some factual idea about what has happened to this app.
Stunning yes if you mean you will be stunned that the cause of productivity could be set so far back so suddenly.
Hello to you too.
This article was not written by a “Google bot,” and I’m not quite sure those even exist. If they do, let me know.
Despite what some may feel, I like what the new Google Calendar app has to offer in terms of design and functionality. That is my opinion. Clearly, it is not yours and that is perfectly acceptable. But you do not have to barge into here calling the post pathetic and claiming it is gushing and mindless. That is insulting to me and the work I do. Oh, and it’s false.
“Wonderful”, “Stunning”, “Beautiful”, and horrifically crippled if you are a Goolge Apps users. (No gmail integration.) I’m sick and f–king tired of being made to feel like a second class user because I opt to “pay” for google’s services.
I don’t understand what you mean. I personally have my gmail and multiple Google apps emails on calendar.
Yes, your “calendar” is there… but if you get an email message in your google apps email which could be automatically integrated into your calendar (a feature highly touted), this apps will not pick that message up. Likewise Google Now cards cannot be generated from messages Google Apps Email accounts.
You clearly have not spent much time with this app. Gmail integration is there including multiple accounts. The app is much better on a tablet. If you want something better for a phone that syncs with Google services check out Business Calendar or Calengoo.
You clearly have not bothered to read the documentation. Google Apps Mail accounts are not supported. These are the accouns people pay for, not the free @gmail.com accounts. This is the same for the New Google Inbox app as well as Google Now.
That does bite. Since Google started rolling out the material make-overs I have seen incremental updates sometimes a day or two or two apart (I have several devices). Hopefully that will be the case for you soon. I don’t believe Google would shoot themselves in the foot by leaving paid service subscribers out in the cold. If it’s any consolation, us free services users are probably acting as a test group for you guys …