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The Google Calendar widget gets the Material You paint job

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By Arthur Brown
July 13, 2023
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There are still bits and pieces of the Android operating system that still need the Material You makeover. However, Google is hard at work giving all of its services the same look. According to a tweet from the Google Calendar Twitter, the Google Calendar widget is getting the Material You paint job.

It’s been a long path for Google to walk applying the Material You design language to all of its apps and services. Every so often, we see Google revamping an app or service to better reflect the Material You aesthetic. Not too long ago, the company delivered two new Google News widgets adorned with Material You.

The Google Calendar widget gets the Material You paint job

A ton of people use the Google Calendar widget to get a quick glance at their upcoming events. The widget itself has remained pretty neutral in terms of its colors. It’d either have a white background or a dark gray background depending on your phone’s theme.

However, looking at the tweet, Google is going to make the widget better reflect the color scheme chosen for your phone. As you know, Stock Android and several skins take the colors present in your wallpaper and create a color scheme based on them. This color scheme pervades your whole UI.

The Google Calendar widget will adopt the color scheme. The background of the widget will more closely match the color of your wallpaper. The Add event button will be a darker shade of the color. Google shared a GIF of this change, but we only see it in light mode. If it’s in dark mode, we expect the Add event button to be a lighter shade.

We’re not 100% sure when Google’s going to bring the change to the public. we weren’t able to see it on our Pixel 6, so it might still be rolling out.