Google Chat can now schedule Calendar events

You can now schedule meetings in Calendar directly from Chat conversations. You’ll see a new icon in the conversation’s compose bar.

Clicking on the icon will start a draft calendar event with the attendees from the chat. You can then customise the invite (including attendees) before sending it to guests.

On mobile, the draft event will open in the Calendar app.

On the web, the draft event will open in the side panel.

This feature is currently rolling out to Chat in the Android Gmail app as well as the Chat Android mobile app and will begin rolling out to the Chat in Gmail on the web and Chat iOS app in the coming weeks. This feature will be ON by default for all domains with Calendar enabled.