Month View Returns to Google Calendar for Android

Are you among the many who scratched your proverbial head at the exclusion of a true month view mode when the Google Calendar app embraced Material Design principles? Well you’re not alone, and Google has heard your cries, fair peasants! Like the benevolent ruler they are, Google has returned month view to the Google Calendar app. No longer are you stuck with that month/day split screen that was abhorrent to many.

To be clear, “month view” refers to a full screen view of a given month, with calendar items filling space for each date, much like Google Calendar on the web or, like, um, a real calendar.

But Google previously decided perhaps that was too easy, or too skeuomorphic. Either way, we were left with a Calendar app that let users drop down a month view, but not actually see any calendar items in said month without clicking on a particular day. Simply put: one couldn’t just get a quick one-swipe glance at a month. Too many steps were involved for what should be one of the simpler processes on a smartphone.

The update is available now. Google also says they are working on improvements to the iPhone (note: not iOS?) app, but why should we care about that when the picture above is of a Nexus 6?

Did you miss month view or were you fine without it?

Source: Google

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