Google Calendar is including new chips to make hopping between months a breeze

What you might want to 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 a desired month.
• Regardless of being a part of a particular app model, the replace is probably going rolled out server-side, making certain widespread availability.

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Google Calendar simply ironed out a pesky little annoyance we have typically confronted when planning months forward. The Android app now makes switching between months a breeze with new navigation chips.

On one in all our units with Google Calendar (model 2024.13.1-624115131-release) put in, there is a new dropdown beneath the present month’s view. Tapping on it brings up a row of chips that can help you leap between months on the go.

You’ll be able to try about 4 months forward (however it would possibly range based mostly on how massive your display screen is), and you may scroll left or proper to choose a month shortly, 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 will discover them snugly nestled between the month-to-month calendar and the agenda checklist. The identical is true for the Day and Week views.

As you may see within the screenshots beneath, the chips do take up a little bit of house in these views, however it’s probably not an enormous deal given how small they’re. In the meantime, the chips are situated proper above the dates within the Month view.

This new bar appears to allow you to scroll all the best way forward, so you may zoom into the longer term by years, and even a long time, in a flash.

Whereas the characteristic is current in model 2024.13.1-624115131-release, Vonau factors out that it is doubtless a server-side replace.

The Calendar app already allows you to swipe left and proper to maneuver by means of the months, however these new chips make it approach simpler to hop to a specific month.

Chips play an enormous position within the Android expertise. Some, just like the sensible 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 contemporary chips popping up in Calendar, it is clear Google has a ton of choices for utilizing chips in its ecosystem.