{"id":42183,"date":"2013-05-30T00:13:03","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T22:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=42183"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:24:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:24:55","slug":"google-calendar-for-android-updates-to-highlight-events-with-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/google-calendar-for-android-updates-to-highlight-events-with-color\/","title":{"rendered":"[Updated] Google Calendar for Android updates to highlight events with color"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google Calendar is a great alternative to the stock calendar app installed on Android devices. With the ability to display multiple calendars from different accounts as well as syncing with your web-based Google Calendar, the app is very easy to customize and manage events.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42184\" title=\"Google Calendar\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/05\/colordatetime.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/05\/colordatetime.png 400w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/05\/colordatetime-120x80.png 120w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/05\/colordatetime-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/05\/colordatetime-258x174.png 258w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/05\/colordatetime-205x138.png 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The new update that is rolling out to Android 4.1 (<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through\">4.2.1)<\/span> and higher allows you to customize events with different colors directly from the device. Another update is a redesigned date and time selection tool. Add in the redesigned timezone and improved repeating event tool, Google Calendar is becoming the calendar app that Android users should use.<\/p>\n<p>The only problem is that the limited Android OS support means that many users will not be able to experience the newly updated app.<\/p>\n<p><em>Updated : Android Official Blog originally stated the update was only available for Android 4.2.1 and higher<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>[Source: <a title=\"Android Official Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/officialandroid.blogspot.com\/2013\/05\/google-calendar-update-for-android.html\">Android Official Blog<\/a> | Download: <a title=\"Google Calendar on Android\" href=\"http:\/\/google-calendar.en.softonic.com\/android\">Google Calendar<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Calendar is a great alternative to the stock calendar app installed on Android devices. With the ability to display multiple calendars from different accounts as well as syncing with your web-based Google Calendar, the app is very easy to customize and manage events. The new update that is rolling out to Android 4.1 (4.2.1) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/google-calendar-for-android-updates-to-highlight-events-with-color\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;[Updated] Google Calendar for Android updates to highlight events with color&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2030,"featured_media":42184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[2673],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-42183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiongoogle-calendar"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2030"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332857,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42183\/revisions\/332857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42183"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=42183"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=42183"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=42183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}