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Re: Google Calendar for iPhone

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Post by 77ko »

nighthawk454 wrote: post #57
77ko wrote: post #54

> Google Calendar for iPhone works with all the calendars you've already set up on your phone. False advertising: It doesn't work with the FaceBook calendar on my phone - other calendar apps like Fantastical and Apple's own Cal show the FB calendar.

It works on my iPhone - it's letting me pull in any calendar I have on my device, incl. Exchange, Facebook, and iCloud. Try under Settings-->Manage Accounts, and throw the toggle switches for the device calendars you want

thanks, found it. Not sure how i missed this before.

Re: Google Calendar for iPhone

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Post by on_and_off »

r00fus wrote: post #56
on_and_off wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The app does its best to generate one picture based on the event data and if it can't it will just use a smaller header. In my experience, it works fairly well for non work events. It is a great way to add some personalization magic very simply.

Not sure about the decision to vary size based on whether it has an image to show for the event. To me, size is an indicator, and I'd prefer it the size of the event was based on importance (either directly or based on my contacts) or meeting length. By varying the size just to include an image, Google is promoting one event over another. A small but important event sandwiched between two larger events can be easily…

I meant the size of the header in the event page, not in the planning / calendar views (where the length of the event drives the size).

Re: Google Calendar for iPhone

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Post by harveynick »

qzervaas wrote: post #59

I wonder what the rationale is to have the springboard display name as "Google Calendar" instead of "Calendar". It displays as "Google Cal...", also known as a rookie error. Surely even "G Cal" would be better. My other complaint is the app icon doesn't dynamically update to today's date. Through no fault of their own of course, but I'll keep Apple's Calendar on my first screen for this feature alone.

There's actually more to it than that. There are some accessibility benefits to allowing the OS to foreshorten it, rather than doing it manually.

Rest assured that if the option to dynamically update the app icon becomes available, we'll be all over it.

Re: Google Calendar for iPhone

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Post by harveynick »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #34
otterley wrote: post #28

First impression: Good Heavens, this is ugly. Second impression: What? You can't even rotate the screen to get a wider view? Are you kidding? Sayonara, Google Calendar App.

One opinion of course. Already blew away Sunrise, absolutely love the new Google Cal app.

Thanks from the team. Google Calendar loves you too ;-)

Re: Google Calendar for iPhone

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Post by hobarrera »

qzervaas wrote: post #59

I wonder what the rationale is to have the springboard display name as "Google Calendar" instead of "Calendar". It displays as "Google Cal...", also known as a rookie error. Surely even "G Cal" would be better. My other complaint is the app icon doesn't dynamically update to today's date. Through no fault of their own of course, but I'll keep Apple's Calendar on my first screen for this feature alone.

I also wonder why the dragged along the Android theme into an iOS app. You can't do OS integration much worse than that.
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