Functional on both phones and tablets, Simple Calendar is the most popular and highest rated minimal calendar widget available. It integrates with your existing calendar to show upcoming appointments directly on your homescreen. It can show the weather, sports schedules, holidays, and more.
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Features and Configuration Options Include:
- Skins
- Font style and background customization
- Select which application opens on click
- Fonts, colors, text size
- Supports tasks using Dato and GTasks
F.A.Q
- How do I place the widget on my homescreen?
- I can't find Simple Calendar in my widget list!
- How do I resize the widget?
- How do I show the weather forecast on the widget?
- How do I add holidays, birthdays, or sports schedules?
- Search Google for "Adding interesting dates to Google Calendar" and follow the instructions.
Long-press your homescreen, choose "widgets," find "Simple Calendar Widget," and drag it to the homescreen. On most Android 4.0 devices, widgets can be found under the "Widgets" tab in app drawer.
Try restarting your device.
Android 3.0+ supports resizing of widgets by default. For older Android versions this can be done by installing an alternate launcher.
On your desktop Google calendar, just add weather. For instructions, search Google for "Weather forecasts in your calendar".
Permissions:
READ CALENDAR: Access to the calendar information
WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE: Backup to SD card