Samsung Galaxy S peculiarities #03 – DatePicker widget
Coming from a Palm background I am used to selecting dates using a datepicker widget that displays complete months at a time. It was somewhat similar to Google Calendar’s datepicker widget:
The benefit of such a datepicker widget is that easily allows you to select a date in the future, say Thursday two weeks from now. You don’t have to do any calculations. Instead you can visually determine that that date is August 19th. Now compare this to Android’s datepicker widget:
How am I going to determine what date Thursday in two weeks time is? You cannot do that easily. You either have to do the calculation or use the calendar monthly view to determine the date prior to creating an event. Very inconvenient.
If eons ago Palm was able to provide a proper datepicker widget on screens much smaller in size than your average Android phone’s screen, Google should have no difficulty in providing a proper datepicker widget in Android.
