Where oh where did my little day slider go..?

While nice to use, the day slider/zoom if often hard to get to popup back up when you need it.  It is easily hidden by just moving dragging up or down on the day but getting it back while on the same day was troublesome.  I have added a "TAB" on the bottom of the view whenever the slider is not in view.  Simply press the tab and the slider will reappear on the screen.  This will make navigation a little bit easier while keeping your options open.

DoubleTap is your Friend...

I have gotten a bit of feedback regarding the Event Detail popup that appears on the MultiDay view.  It appears when the view loads and gets in the way.  I have always found this a bit annoying as well.  Especially since it got in the way of the new scrollbar.

I have updated the event selecting on the MultiDay view to use SingleTaps and DoubleTaps.  From now on, the popup will not appear when the view loads.  This will prevent it from getting in the way.  A single tap on an event will now bring up the popup.  Prior to this a single tap would open the event details page.  Now if you double tap on the event the details page will open.  This allows for easily viewing event details while adding a bit more control over what you want to view.  You can still tap on the popup to go directly to the event detail view.

Events in the past are so Yesterday....

Three Day with Dimmed Events

Google added a feature not to long ago that dimmed events that passed.  I recently had a suggestion to add this feature to my calendar so at no further adieu...  I have added a setting to the calendar that will allow you to dim events that have have occurred in the past.

Week Start Day - vs - Swipe Action

As it turns out I might need to explain these options in a bit more detail.  While I've only had one complaint about this option, it made me question the validity and whether or not it was helpful.  Admittedly I think in a different manner then a lot of people.  I look for fluidity and ease of use towards a problem, but I neglect to provide the proper information after I've solved an issue.  So I will do my best here.

Week start day is as far as I can see very easy to understand.  If I want my weeks to start on Monday, then I should be able to do this.  With such an easy modification I never understood why it was never implemented in the first place.  Was I to assume that since I live in the USA that I would have to start my week on Sunday.  This never made sense to me, since I always thought that the "weekend" was supposed to to be at the end of the week.

Now comes my dreaded Swipe action.  Oh, a power foe it was to the Week start day...  Here is where fluidity and ease of use came into play.  I am not a today person, but more of a everyday person.  When I look at a schedule I want to know what is happening around that time as well.  When I am using my Calendar app I want to be able to jump to a specific week without having to select a specific day and then go to the menu to adjust to week view.  This is where the swipe action on the Month View came into play.  A single swipe action to the right on the Month View of Calendar Plus will take you to the now MultiDay View.  What improved this even further was that I adjusted the swipe action to select the week that was swiped over.  For example if I was in the Month View and I wanted to see what was happening next week, I would simply swipe that week.  I was brilliant and so simple to use.

It didn't end there though.  I believed I could go one step further. "What if" I had events happening from say Thursday through the weekend and into next week and I wanted to see that schedule.  Since my week starts on Monday I would have to go back and forth between two screens to see all of the events.  Now "What if", I could dynamically adjust the week start day with a simple placement of the finger when I swipe the calendar.  So now, when you swipe the Month View if I start the swipe from Thursday, The MultiDay View displays a week starting on Thursday.  This allows easy viewing of any events anywhere in the week.

Now while this seemed so ingenious to me, it may have caused issues with other Calendar Plus users.  So, I have added an option in the settings that allow you to enable weeks to maintain start day even during a swipe or week selection from the menu.

I hope this helps a few people out and makes the calendar even easier to use.

Until next time.....

2 Days, Sorry you're only allowed 1 or 7 Days

Two Days

The options to only be able to view a single day or 7 days felt limiting and I wanted to be able to compare select days.  If I wanted to compare today and tomorrow I had to go back and forth between the two days in the day view or I had to switch to the WeekView which was very limited on information.  I came up with the idea of being able to instantly change from the WeekView to the day view or maybe event a 2 or 3 or even 10 day view.

I reworked the calendar to and merged the Day and WeekViews together and created a MultiDay View.  In this view you have been given a slider on the bottom of the screen.   This slider allows you to easily slide from 7 days to 1 day or even up to 14 days without having to change the screen.