Google Calendar on Android is getting a more full-featured Google Tasks experience to make it “easier for users to stay on top of and organize their tasks.”
At the moment, Google Calendar lets you create and view Tasks that have a due date.
Calendar for Android will soon let users “see all their tasks and task lists in a single full screen view.” Google frames this as an extension of the Tasks functionality Google Calendar on the web, or calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/r/tasks and tasks.google.com, introduced last year.
This update makes it easier for users to stay on top of and organize their tasks, especially while on-the-go.
At the top bar, in-between the button that lets you jump to today and your profile switcher is a new Tasks icon. This basically opens the homescreen UI of the standalone application. It shows Tasks that don’t have an attached date and all your lists.
In hindsight, the Google Tasks redesign in August that dropped the bottom app bar with a simple FAB was part of making Tasks better fit in with Calendar.
There’s no indication right now that the dedicated Tasks app is going away, while that should be the only way to get a homescreen widget.
Google Tasks in Calendar for Android is rolling out over the coming weeks. Today’s announcement was only for Android, with iOS not mentioned.
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