Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority
TL;DR
- Google is engaged on adjustments to a few Calendar’s widgets, and one for Maintain.
- Calendar tries out the Google Sans Flex font and tightens up its schedule view.
- Maintain is modifying its fast seize widget to raised reap the benefits of show actual property.
Like all good app developer, Google’s at all times interested by learn how to enhance the expertise for its customers, and retains us on our toes by always tweaking its Android apps within the pursuit of perfection. We’re so fascinated with staying on prime of what it’s as much as that we’re always searching for proof of adjustments earlier than they’ve even been fully applied. Final month we checked out a few of these in-development tweaks for Google Calendar, together with the potential adoption of the Google Sans Flex font. Now that new typeface has surfaced as soon as once more, as we uncover work on some adjustments to widgets for each Calendar and Maintain.
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Right this moment we’re cracking open Google Calendar model 2025.13.0-742080714-release. Now, you might already be conversant in the widgets Calendar presents, letting you place both a compact schedule view or an expansive whole-month overview proper in your Android system’s house display. And whereas Calendar is sticking with those self same two widgets, we’ve found work in direction of modifying their layouts:
Right here you see the prevailing widgets on the left, in comparison with these still-not-yet-live adjustments on the precise, and in each circumstances we see Google Sans Flex making an look, in addition to Google shrinking down these plus-sign buttons for including new entries.
However it’s actually the schedule widget the place the impression of Google’s adjustments really feel most pronounced, and eliminating wasted white house in date fields permits the widget to supply a lot larger data density whereas not feeling any extra crowded.
Whereas Calendar’s widget buttons are getting smaller, Maintain is taking part in with going within the different route, stretching the buttons in its “fast seize” widget out to occupy the complete peak accessible:
This widget already takes one in every of three kinds relying on what dimension you set it to, and all these may very well be altering, too. With the sq. “cloverleaf” association, the widget will lastly have the ability to develop to fill bigger areas. And even in its most compact configuration, we are able to see Google taking that very same space-filling method.
