Google Calendar made much smarter and sleeker for Android (and soon iPhone)

Also big is the addition of Assists (as in the Inbox app), which help you add new events by constantly suggesting the next step in the chain - whether that’s the type of event (like a birthday party), where it’s at, who it’s with, and so on and so forth, all using the rest of your Google data to fill in the missing pieces.

It’s much prettier than before, too, due to Lollipop’s touted Material Design aesthetic - but also because events in schedule view now show photos, maps, and other relevant images to show you the event’s context at a glance. It looks rather fantastic in the image up top.

Android devices running Lollipop can access the new Calendar immediately, while anyone running Android 4.1 or higher will be able to get it from Google Play in the near future. And Google says it’s also coming to iPhone at some point, though we’ll see if it’s quite as fetching in that incarnation.

[Source: Gmail Blog]

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