agenda widget scrolling to view past events

[venky]

Hi,

In the agenda widget there is no option to scroll to the past to view past events. Can you provide following capability on agenda widget to view past events - both these below options are available in the main app.

1. A jump to date button just like the one in the main app

2. Ability to scroll up in the agenda widget to view past events

Thanks.

[CalenGoo Support]

Hi,

widgets on the home screen and views inside an app work very differently. E.g. regarding the widgets CalenGoo can just send data to them but hardly interact with them. E.g. CalenGoo cannot see the scroll position of the widget and thus certain functions are not possible. Usually widgets are meant to get the most important information at a glance but to get further information one should open the app.

Please don't hesitate to contact me again if you have further questions!

Kind regards

Dominique

[venky]

I don't agree with your explanation that widgets are meant to show information only at a glance and you need to open the app to get more information. I use so many apps that have widgets that do just more than just show information - I can scroll, I can add items from widget, I can interact with items in widget. So, for sure it is possible to scroll in the widget and to maybe jump to a date in the widget. Btw, I'm talking about Android.

On Monday, November 25, 2024 at 6:53:54 AM UTC-5 CalenGoo Support wrote:

Hi,

widgets on the home screen and views inside an app work very differently. E.g. regarding the widgets CalenGoo can just send data to them but hardly interact with them. E.g. CalenGoo cannot see the scroll position of the widget and thus certain functions are not possible. Usually widgets are meant to get the most important information at a glance but to get further information one should open the app.

Please don't hesitate to contact me again if you have further questions!

Kind regards

Dominique

[CalenGoo Support]

Hi,

thank you for your message. Sorry, maybe I should explain it in more detail. I mentioned that CalenGoo cannot see the scroll position of the widget. I think that's a problem:

Let's say you want to be able to scroll a few days back. That means there is a scroll view that consists of a few past days, the current day and a few future days. By default the widget should show the current day. So when CalenGoo refreshes the widget it scrolls it to the current day (to allow you to scroll to the past days and to the future days). But because it cannot see the scroll position of the widget this would mean that it cannot know if you have already scrolled the widget. So it might jump back to the current day while you are just viewing a past or future day. It cannot preserve the scroll position when changing the scroll position to the current day.

As far as I know the only way to preserve the scroll position and to not interfere with the scrolling that the user makes is to not set a scroll position at all. That's the reason why there are no past days loaded in the widget. Because it might be annoying when trying to scroll the widget and then it just jumps back to the current day because it is refreshed at that time (e.g. due to a background sync). So I think it might be confusing that the widget jumps unexpectedly back to the current day while using it.

But the "jump to date" function would be possible, that's true. If you would like to have it, please add it to my website https://calengoo.de/features/calengooandroid . And you can also add the other suggestion, maybe Android will add a function to retrieve the scroll position in the future and then it might become possible to implement something like this without causing problems with the scrolling.

Please don't hesitate to contact me again if you have further questions!

Kind regards

Dominique

[Wayne Bird]

My experience with the number of widgets I use on my Android is what Dominique explained .When I do interact with them they open the app the same way Calengoo does.

[venky]

HI Dominique,

Thanks for the detailed explanation. I do feel that this is a very useful functionality to have. Adding a jump to date button would certainly be very useful. I added some features suggestions in the past but none of them were considered and I feel like features suggestions list is like a black hole. Since this is only one suggestion and you too agree that this is pretty useful perhaps you can incorporate it in the app. That would be great.