It appears that Google could soon release its promised redesigned Calendar app for iPhone after first making the announcement and releasing the app for Android last November. The Next Web this morning shared a handful of leaked screenshots that provide a first look at Google Calendar for iOS, including info cards that indicate Gmail, Photos and Maps integration will be key features of the app.
The screenshots show that the app will have side-by-side calendars for both a monthly overview and closer day-to-day agenda of tasks and important dates. Reservations for flights, restaurants and more are automatically added from your Gmail inbox, alongside photos and maps for viewing your upcoming events at a glance. Built-in notification settings are included.
The app is based on Google’s new Material Design language found across its other iPhone apps like Inbox and Google Maps. The report does not offer up any further details about the app, but we should find out soon when it hits the App Store. This will mark the first time that Google offers a standalone Calendar app for iPhone.
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I just hope theres a way for me to easily move my iCal stuff to it, cause this application loooks nice!
This looks like freaking Android! Google should be forced to abide by Apple policies for app design, not shoving their Android Material Design BS down iOS users throats! If I wanted Android, I’d have bought one, but I want iOS.
” […] not shoving their Android Material Design BS down iOS users throats!”
If you don’t like their design, just don’t use their damn app instead of always complaining and cry like a stupid baby about Material Design on each post about a Google App.
You like repeating yourself, thinking it will make people listen to you more? Like Einstein said, “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
Easy-peasy solution, Edison … Just don’t download any of the Google apps, and – you’ll be golden!
I haven’t; no Google apps of ANY kind on ANY of my Apple devices, and you’re right, I’m golden, and humming along very happily without Schmidt and Co.
Perhaps you should avail yourself of feedback@apple.com or http://www.apple.com/feedback and ask Apple to step up the development effort of its OWN iOS Calendar app. Because if Apple’s app weren’t lacking, you’d have no reason to even concern yourself with (or comment on) Google’s offering, looking like Android or no.
Having seen the alternative of Google’s offering, and the fact all my data gets mined for anything they use to market me out as a product to advertising agencies, Apple’s implementation is just fine for me, and hundreds of millions of other users.
Yeah, it is kind of a blatant contradiction and hypocrisy on the part of Google. Because I’m pretty sure Duarte and his minions would really love and encourage all Android developers to use Material Design going forward on Android devices.
On another note, I can’t wait to see what sort of ridiculous fashion disaster he’ll bring to I/O this year! Amazing a top notch designer can’t dress himself. :-)
” […] not shoving their Android Material Design BS down iOS users throats!”
If you don’t like their design, just don’t use their damnn app instead of always complaining and cry like a stuupid baby about Material Design on each post about a Google App.
I’m allowed to express my opinion about iOS apps on an Apple site. And I hate the fact Google keeps trying to Android-ify iOS, and want to express myself. If you don’t like that, then just ignore it.
I believe it is normal for Google to want to have a unified interface. So Android and iOS or whatever users are not lost on another platform.
They are more then welcome to introduce a “unified” interface on their OWN platform. iOS strives for the same thing. So on their platform they’re unifying everything, but on iOS they’re trying to muscle their way in with their crap design and fragment the user experience, hence turning it into Android. Hypocrisy much?
If you don’t like it don’t get it, simple as that.
And if I don’t like it, I voice my disdain for it, simple as that.
Developers can do what they want with the design of their own apps.
Calendar, mail and maps on iOS offer way less options than the same apps on Android.
Just because developers CAN do something, doesn’t mean that’s the right thing, or the best thing, to do. Developers who care about their work on a given platform should strive to not only make the app standout from the crowd, but to also follow a design philosophy that is consistent with the rest of that platforms’ UI so it gives the end-user a seamless experience.
What Google is doing with attempting to Android-ify iOS is not only going against this philosophy, but attempting to shaft their junk interface on top of iOS. It’s insulting.
Looking forward to this. I don’t like Android at all, but I really love how Google’s apps work on the iPhone. And I don’t care if it looks like Android either. It is their app and they can (and will) do as they please.
More Google bloatware, perfect for building a dossier on each and every Google user so they can upset you at every moment!
Google – they read your correspondence, your meeting schedule and your location. They know your friends and work colleagues. All in real time, 24×365. Every senator and congressman should be proud that their privacy has been sold to the highest bidder, thanks to Google DoubleClick, Google AdWords, and Google Analytics.
Scary stuff, except for the ignorant.
i agree! if you don’t like googles design DONT USE THEIR APPS. google will make their apps the way they want to. the design will be based on google design not apple. they don’t work for apple so get over it and whiners can use other apps
If they make their apps for their own platform (Android), then it should follow the UI / UX of that platform. If they’re wanting to make it for a different platform, such as iOS or WP, then the same philosophy should follow in that the app should blend in with that platforms’ UX.