app/src/main/java/de/jeanlucmakiola/calendula/ui/month/MonthScreen.kt

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.width
 import androidx.compose.foundation.lazy.LazyColumn
 import androidx.compose.foundation.lazy.LazyListState
 import androidx.compose.foundation.lazy.itemsIndexed
+import androidx.compose.foundation.lazy.items
 import androidx.compose.foundation.lazy.rememberLazyListState
 import androidx.compose.foundation.selection.selectable
 import androidx.compose.foundation.shape.CircleShape
@@ -48,6 +49,7 @@ import androidx.compose.runtime.LaunchedEffect
 import androidx.compose.runtime.CompositionLocalProvider
 import androidx.compose.runtime.derivedStateOf
 import androidx.compose.runtime.getValue
+import androidx.compose.runtime.key
 import androidx.compose.runtime.snapshotFlow
 import androidx.compose.runtime.mutableFloatStateOf
 import androidx.compose.runtime.mutableIntStateOf
@@ -103,9 +105,11 @@ import de.jeanlucmakiola.floret.time.isoWeekNumber
 import kotlinx.coroutines.flow.distinctUntilChanged
 import kotlinx.coroutines.flow.filterNotNull
 import kotlinx.coroutines.launch
+import kotlinx.datetime.DateTimeUnit
 import kotlinx.datetime.DayOfWeek
 import kotlinx.datetime.LocalDate
 import kotlinx.datetime.TimeZone
+import kotlinx.datetime.plus
 import kotlinx.datetime.YearMonth
 import kotlinx.datetime.toJavaLocalDate
 import kotlinx.datetime.toLocalDateTime
@@ -149,42 +153,61 @@ fun MonthScreen(
     val drawerState = rememberDrawerState(DrawerValue.Closed)
     val scope = rememberCoroutineScope()
 
-    val continuous = viewStyle == MonthViewStyle.Continuous
+    val scrolling = viewStyle.isScrolling
+    val dense = viewStyle == MonthViewStyle.Dense
 
     // Today, from whichever state is driving; the clock only covers the first
     // frame, before either has loaded.
     val today = when {
-        continuous -> (continuousState as? ContinuousMonthUiState.Success)?.today
+        scrolling -> (continuousState as? ContinuousMonthUiState.Success)?.today
         else -> (state as? MonthUiState.Success)?.today
     } ?: Clock.System.now().toLocalDateTime(TimeZone.currentSystemDefault()).date
 
-    // Month indices don't move with the week-start preference, so unlike the
+    // The two scrolling styles index their items differently — Continuous by
-    // week-indexed stream this replaced, the list state survives a change to it.
+    // month (which the week start can't move), Dense by week (which it can) — so
-    val listState = rememberLazyListState(
+    // the list state is rebuilt when either changes rather than carrying an
-        initialFirstVisibleItemIndex = itemIndexForMonth(monthIndexOf(month)),
+    // offset into a coordinate space that no longer means the same thing.
+    val listState = key(viewStyle, weekStart) {
+        rememberLazyListState(
+            initialFirstVisibleItemIndex = if (dense) {
+                weekIndexOf(LocalDate(month.year, month.month, 1), weekStart)
+            } else {
+                itemIndexForMonth(monthIndexOf(month))
+            },
         )
-
-    // Whichever month's block the top of the viewport is in. Its sticky header
-    // is the first visible item for all but the last sliver of a block, so this
-    // flips exactly when the header does.
-    val visibleMonth by remember {
-        derivedStateOf { yearMonthForIndex(monthIndexForItem(listState.firstVisibleItemIndex)) }
     }
-    val titleMonth = if (continuous) visibleMonth else month
 
-    // Feed the visible range back so the sliding data window can follow. The
+    // Which month the viewport is showing. Continuous reads it off the block
-    // view model ignores everything that doesn't near a loaded edge.
+    // whose sticky header is up; Dense has no blocks, so it takes the month the
-    LaunchedEffect(listState, continuous) {
+    // row below the top edge mostly sits in, which flips as that month's first
-        if (!continuous) return@LaunchedEffect
+    // full week comes into view.
+    val visibleMonth by remember(dense, weekStart) {
+        derivedStateOf {
+            if (dense) {
+                val midweek = weekStartForIndex(listState.firstVisibleItemIndex + 1, weekStart)
+                    .plus(3, DateTimeUnit.DAY)
+                YearMonth(midweek.year, midweek.month)
+            } else {
+                yearMonthForIndex(monthIndexForItem(listState.firstVisibleItemIndex))
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    val titleMonth = if (scrolling) visibleMonth else month
+
+    // Feed the visible range back so the sliding data window can follow. Both
+    // styles report *months*, whatever they index by — one window serves both.
+    LaunchedEffect(listState, scrolling, dense, weekStart) {
+        if (!scrolling) return@LaunchedEffect
         snapshotFlow {
             // Empty before the first layout pass — and reporting a default of 0
             // for it would claim January 1900 is on screen and drag the whole
             // window back there.
             val visible = listState.layoutInfo.visibleItemsInfo
-            if (visible.isEmpty()) {
+            when {
-                null
+                visible.isEmpty() -> null
-            } else {
+                dense -> monthIndexForWeek(visible.first().index, weekStart) to
-                monthIndexForItem(visible.first().index) to
+                    monthIndexForWeek(visible.last().index, weekStart)
+                else -> monthIndexForItem(visible.first().index) to
                     monthIndexForItem(visible.last().index)
             }
         }
@@ -195,10 +218,11 @@ fun MonthScreen(
 
     val isOnCurrentMonth = titleMonth == YearMonth(today.year, today.month)
 
-    // The continuous style names the month on the block's own sticky header, so
+    // Continuous names the month on the block's own sticky header, so the bar
-    // the bar carries the year instead of repeating it two lines further down.
+    // carries the year instead of repeating it two lines further down. Dense has
+    // no header to defer to, so it keeps the full title.
     val locale = currentLocale()
-    val topBarTitle = if (continuous) {
+    val topBarTitle = if (viewStyle == MonthViewStyle.Continuous) {
         titleMonth.year.toString()
     } else {
         formatMonthTitle(titleMonth, locale, currentYear = today.year)
@@ -219,10 +243,11 @@ fun MonthScreen(
     // (back), viewing the past → from the right (forward). The continuous stream
     // scrolls to today's week instead — there is nothing to slide.
     val jumpToToday = {
-        if (continuous) {
+        if (scrolling) {
             scope.launch {
                 listState.animateScrollToItem(
-                    itemIndexForMonth(monthIndexOf(YearMonth(today.year, today.month))),
+                    if (dense) weekIndexOf(today, weekStart)
+                    else itemIndexForMonth(monthIndexOf(YearMonth(today.year, today.month))),
                 )
             }
             Unit
@@ -237,10 +262,11 @@ fun MonthScreen(
     }
     // Drawer jump-to-date: slide from the side the target month lies on.
     val jumpToDate: (LocalDate) -> Unit = { target ->
-        if (continuous) {
+        if (scrolling) {
             scope.launch {
                 listState.animateScrollToItem(
-                    itemIndexForMonth(monthIndexOf(YearMonth(target.year, target.month))),
+                    if (dense) weekIndexOf(LocalDate(target.year, target.month, 1), weekStart)
+                    else itemIndexForMonth(monthIndexOf(YearMonth(target.year, target.month))),
                 )
             }
         } else {
@@ -310,10 +336,11 @@ fun MonthScreen(
             ) {
                 WeekdayHeader(weekStart = weekStart, showWeekNumbers = showWeekNumbers)
                 CompositionLocalProvider(LocalDimCutoff provides dimCutoff) {
-                    if (continuous) {
+                    if (scrolling) {
                         ContinuousMonthContent(
                             state = continuousState,
                             listState = listState,
+                            dense = dense,
                             showWeekNumbers = showWeekNumbers,
                             onRetry = jumpToToday,
                             onOpenDay = onOpenDay,
@@ -389,14 +416,15 @@ private fun MonthContent(
 }
 
 /**
- * Continuous style content. No swipe detector and no [AnimatedContent]: vertical
+ * Content for both scrolling styles. No swipe detector and no [AnimatedContent]:
- * scrolling owns the gesture, and the list never swaps wholesale — it keeps
+ * vertical scrolling owns the gesture, and the list never swaps wholesale — it
- * scrolling while the window behind it reloads.
+ * keeps scrolling while the window behind it reloads.
  */
 @Composable
 private fun ContinuousMonthContent(
     state: ContinuousMonthUiState,
     listState: LazyListState,
+    dense: Boolean,
     showWeekNumbers: Boolean,
     onRetry: () -> Unit,
     onOpenDay: (LocalDate) -> Unit,
@@ -405,12 +433,21 @@ private fun ContinuousMonthContent(
         ContinuousMonthUiState.Loading -> MonthGridLoading()
         is ContinuousMonthUiState.Failure ->
             CalendarFailure(reason = state.reason, onRetry = onRetry)
-        is ContinuousMonthUiState.Success -> ContinuousMonthGrid(
+        is ContinuousMonthUiState.Success -> if (dense) {
+            DenseMonthGrid(
                 state = state,
                 listState = listState,
                 showWeekNumbers = showWeekNumbers,
                 onOpenDay = onOpenDay,
             )
+        } else {
+            ContinuousMonthGrid(
+                state = state,
+                listState = listState,
+                showWeekNumbers = showWeekNumbers,
+                onOpenDay = onOpenDay,
+            )
+        }
     }
 }
 
@@ -648,22 +685,85 @@ private fun ContinuousMonthBlock(
 /**
  * The month label that pins above its block. Opaque `surface` so the rows scroll
  * under it cleanly, and generous vertical padding — the whitespace around the
- * label is what makes each month read as its own section.
+ * label is what makes each month read as its own section. The rule beneath it
+ * closes the header off against the grid; it is the one part of this layout the
+ * user is still deciding on.
  */
 @Composable
 private fun ContinuousMonthHeader(month: YearMonth, currentYear: Int, isCurrent: Boolean) {
     val locale = currentLocale()
+    Column(
+        modifier = Modifier
+            .fillMaxWidth()
+            .background(MaterialTheme.colorScheme.surface)
+            .padding(top = 20.dp),
+    ) {
         Text(
             text = formatMonthTitle(month, locale, currentYear),
             style = MaterialTheme.typography.titleMedium,
             color = if (isCurrent) MaterialTheme.colorScheme.primary
             else MaterialTheme.colorScheme.onSurface,
+            modifier = Modifier.padding(horizontal = 12.dp, vertical = 0.dp),
+        )
+        HorizontalDivider(
+            color = MaterialTheme.colorScheme.outlineVariant,
+            modifier = Modifier.padding(top = 8.dp, bottom = 8.dp),
+        )
+    }
+}
+
+/**
+ * The Dense style (#38): one uninterrupted vertical stream of weeks, months
+ * flowing into each other.
+ *
+ * Kept alongside the block layout rather than replaced by it — the seams that
+ * make months legible are exactly what someone wanting a dense calendar doesn't
+ * want. There is no month boundary to dim across here, so every day reads as
+ * in-month and the 1st names its month: the only marker of where one ends.
+ *
+ * Indexed by absolute *week* number, so a row's identity never changes and there
+ * is no page seam to scroll across. Weeks the loaded window hasn't reached yet
+ * render as a skeleton and pull the window along behind them.
+ */
+@Composable
+internal fun DenseMonthGrid(
+    state: ContinuousMonthUiState.Success,
+    listState: LazyListState,
+    showWeekNumbers: Boolean,
+    onOpenDay: (LocalDate) -> Unit,
+    modifier: Modifier = Modifier,
+) {
+    val weekCount = remember(state.weekStart) { continuousWeekCount(state.weekStart) }
+    LazyColumn(
+        state = listState,
+        modifier = modifier
+            .fillMaxSize()
+            .padding(horizontal = 8.dp),
+        verticalArrangement = Arrangement.spacedBy(2.dp),
+        // Bottom inset clears the FAB stack so the last row stays tappable.
+        contentPadding = PaddingValues(top = 4.dp, bottom = 96.dp),
+    ) {
+        items(count = weekCount, key = { it }) { index ->
+            val week = state.weeksByIndex[index]
+            if (week == null) {
+                ContinuousWeekPlaceholder()
+            } else {
+                MonthWeekRow(
+                    week = week,
+                    today = state.today,
+                    // Every day in the stream belongs to a month equally — there
+                    // is no "other month" to recede here.
+                    inMonth = { true },
+                    showWeekNumbers = showWeekNumbers,
+                    onOpenDay = onOpenDay,
+                    labelMonthOnFirst = true,
                     modifier = Modifier
                         .fillMaxWidth()
-            .background(MaterialTheme.colorScheme.surface)
+                        .height(CONTINUOUS_ROW_HEIGHT),
-            .padding(horizontal = 12.dp)
-            .padding(top = 20.dp, bottom = 10.dp),
                 )
+            }
+        }
+    }
 }
 
 /**
@@ -970,6 +1070,7 @@ private fun MonthWeekRow(
     onOpenDay: (LocalDate) -> Unit,
     modifier: Modifier = Modifier,
     blankOutside: Boolean = false,
+    labelMonthOnFirst: Boolean = false,
 ) {
     val dark = isSystemInDarkTheme()
     val laneCount = (week.spans.maxOfOrNull { it.lane } ?: -1) + 1
@@ -1029,6 +1130,13 @@ private fun MonthWeekRow(
                                 date = d,
                                 isToday = d == today,
                                 inMonth = inMonth(d),
+                                // Dense has no month boundaries to dim across and
+                                // no header to name the month, so the 1st does it.
+                                monthLabel = if (labelMonthOnFirst && d.day == 1) {
+                                    shortMonthName(d)
+                                } else {
+                                    null
+                                },
                                 modifier = Modifier.weight(1f),
                             )
                         }
@@ -1167,6 +1275,7 @@ private fun DayNumberCell(
     isToday: Boolean,
     inMonth: Boolean,
     modifier: Modifier = Modifier,
+    monthLabel: String? = null,
 ) {
     Box(
         modifier = modifier.height(DAY_NUMBER_HEIGHT),
@@ -1186,6 +1295,16 @@ private fun DayNumberCell(
                     color = MaterialTheme.colorScheme.onPrimary,
                 )
             }
+        } else if (monthLabel != null) {
+            Text(
+                text = "$monthLabel ${date.day}",
+                style = MaterialTheme.typography.labelMedium,
+                fontWeight = FontWeight.Bold,
+                color = MaterialTheme.colorScheme.primary,
+                maxLines = 1,
+                overflow = TextOverflow.Visible,
+                softWrap = false,
+            )
         } else {
             Text(
                 text = date.day.toString(),
@@ -1197,6 +1316,16 @@ private fun DayNumberCell(
     }
 }
 
+/** Locale-short month name ("Jul", "Juli"), for the 1st in the Dense grid. */
+@Composable
+private fun shortMonthName(date: LocalDate): String {
+    val locale = currentLocale()
+    return remember(date.month, locale) {
+        java.time.Month.of(date.month.ordinal + 1)
+            .getDisplayName(JavaTextStyle.SHORT, locale)
+    }
+}
+
 /** A filled event pill/bar — softened (or raw) fill, title clipped to one line. */
 @Composable
 private fun MonthBar(

app/src/main/java/de/jeanlucmakiola/calendula/ui/month/MonthStylePreview.kt

@@ -119,6 +119,18 @@ internal fun MonthStylePreview(
                         showWeekNumbers = false,
                         onOpenDay = {},
                     )
+                    MonthViewStyle.Dense -> DenseMonthGrid(
+                        state = sample.continuous,
+                        listState = rememberLazyListState(
+                            // Start a week above today's, so the preview shows a
+                            // stream running past the viewport rather than one
+                            // beginning at its top edge.
+                            initialFirstVisibleItemIndex =
+                                weekIndexOf(today, weekStart) - 1,
+                        ),
+                        showWeekNumbers = false,
+                        onOpenDay = {},
+                    )
                     MonthViewStyle.Split -> {
                         SplitMonthGrid(
                             state = sample.month,
@@ -182,16 +194,23 @@ private fun sampleMonthState(
         zone = zone,
     )
 
-    // This month and the next: enough for the preview to show a month block, the
+    // The month either side of this one: enough for Continuous to show a block,
-    // whitespace under it and the following month's header coming up.
+    // the whitespace under it and the next month's header coming up, and for
+    // Dense to have somewhere to scroll in both directions.
     val centre = monthIndexOf(ym)
-    val window = centre..(centre + 1)
+    val window = (centre - 1)..(centre + 1)
     val continuous = ContinuousMonthUiState.Success(
         today = today,
         monthsByIndex = window.associateWith { index ->
             val m = yearMonthForIndex(index)
             layoutMonthWeeks(m, weekStart, events, zone).map { clipWeekToMonth(it, m) }
         },
+        weeksByIndex = weekWindowFor(window, weekStart).associateWith { index ->
+            val days = (0 until 7).map {
+                weekStartForIndex(index, weekStart).plus(it, DateTimeUnit.DAY)
+            }
+            layoutCalendarWeek(days, events, zone)
+        },
         weekStart = weekStart,
     )
     return SampleMonth(month, continuous)

app/src/main/java/de/jeanlucmakiola/calendula/ui/month/MonthUiState.kt

@@ -46,8 +46,17 @@ data class MonthWeek(
  * its seven columns so the grid geometry never shifts, but the neighbour month's
  * dates are clipped out of it (see `clipWeekToMonth`) and render as blanks.
  *
- * [monthsByIndex] holds only the loaded window; indices outside it render as
+ * The same loaded window is served two ways, because the Dense style is the same
- * placeholders until the window catches up.
+ * scroll with the seams taken out and it would be wasteful to query the provider
+ * twice for one range:
+ *
+ *  - [monthsByIndex] — the block layout, keyed by absolute month index, each week
+ *    clipped to its own month.
+ *  - [weeksByIndex] — the flowing layout, keyed by absolute week index, boundary
+ *    weeks left carrying both months.
+ *
+ * Both hold only the loaded window; indices outside it render as placeholders
+ * until the window catches up.
  */
 sealed interface ContinuousMonthUiState {
     data object Loading : ContinuousMonthUiState
@@ -55,6 +64,7 @@ sealed interface ContinuousMonthUiState {
     data class Success(
         val today: LocalDate,
         val monthsByIndex: Map<Int, List<MonthWeek>>,
+        val weeksByIndex: Map<Int, MonthWeek>,
         val weekStart: DayOfWeek,
     ) : ContinuousMonthUiState
 }

app/src/main/java/de/jeanlucmakiola/calendula/ui/month/MonthViewModel.kt

@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ import kotlinx.datetime.TimeZone
 import kotlinx.datetime.YearMonth
 import kotlinx.datetime.atStartOfDayIn
 import kotlinx.datetime.atTime
+import kotlinx.datetime.daysUntil
 import kotlinx.datetime.minus
 import kotlinx.datetime.plus
 import kotlinx.datetime.toInstant
@@ -165,9 +166,18 @@ class MonthViewModel @Inject constructor(
             val ym = yearMonthForIndex(index)
             layoutMonthWeeks(ym, weekStart, instances, zone).map { clipWeekToMonth(it, ym) }
         }
+        // The Dense style's rows, from the same query: every week the window's
+        // months touch, laid out whole rather than clipped to a month.
+        val weeks = weekWindowFor(window, weekStart).associateWith { index ->
+            val days = (0 until 7).map {
+                weekStartForIndex(index, weekStart).plus(it, DateTimeUnit.DAY)
+            }
+            layoutCalendarWeek(days, instances, zone)
+        }
         return ContinuousMonthUiState.Success(
             today = todayDate,
             monthsByIndex = months,
+            weeksByIndex = weeks,
             weekStart = weekStart,
         )
     }
@@ -415,6 +425,52 @@ internal fun clampMonthWindow(window: IntRange): IntRange {
 
 internal fun firstOfMonth(ym: YearMonth): LocalDate = LocalDate(ym.year, ym.month, 1)
 
+/**
+ * The Dense style addresses *weeks* by absolute index instead: it has no month
+ * blocks to key by, and a row's identity has to survive the months around it
+ * scrolling past. Index 0 is the first week of 1900 under the active week-start,
+ * so — like the month space — every index is non-negative and the LazyColumn's
+ * item indices and week indices are the same number.
+ *
+ * Unlike month indices these *do* shift with the week-start preference, which is
+ * why the list state is keyed on it.
+ */
+private val WEEK_INDEX_EPOCH = LocalDate(1900, 1, 1)
+private val WEEK_INDEX_END = LocalDate(2100, 12, 31)
+
+internal fun weekIndexOf(date: LocalDate, weekStart: DayOfWeek): Int {
+    val base = WEEK_INDEX_EPOCH.startOfGridWeek(weekStart)
+    return base.daysUntil(date.startOfGridWeek(weekStart)) / 7
+}
+
+internal fun weekStartForIndex(index: Int, weekStart: DayOfWeek): LocalDate =
+    WEEK_INDEX_EPOCH.startOfGridWeek(weekStart).plus(index * 7, DateTimeUnit.DAY)
+
+/** Total weeks the Dense grid scrolls through (1900 → 2100). */
+internal fun continuousWeekCount(weekStart: DayOfWeek): Int =
+    weekIndexOf(WEEK_INDEX_END, weekStart) + 1
+
+/** Which month a Dense row belongs to, for reporting the visible range. */
+internal fun monthIndexForWeek(weekIndex: Int, weekStart: DayOfWeek): Int {
+    // The row's midweek day: a boundary week is reported as whichever month owns
+    // most of it, the same rule the title uses.
+    val midweek = weekStartForIndex(weekIndex, weekStart).plus(3, DateTimeUnit.DAY)
+    return monthIndexOf(YearMonth(midweek.year, midweek.month))
+}
+
+/**
+ * Every week index the months in [window] touch — the Dense rows one month-window
+ * load covers. Widened by a week at each end so the boundary rows either side are
+ * laid out too, rather than flickering as placeholders.
+ */
+internal fun weekWindowFor(window: IntRange, weekStart: DayOfWeek): IntRange {
+    val first = weekIndexOf(firstOfMonth(yearMonthForIndex(window.first)), weekStart) - 1
+    val lastMonthEnd = firstOfMonth(yearMonthForIndex(window.last))
+        .plus(1, DateTimeUnit.MONTH)
+        .minus(1, DateTimeUnit.DAY)
+    return first..(weekIndexOf(lastMonthEnd, weekStart) + 1)
+}
+
 /** How many week rows [ym] needs under [weekStart] — 4 (a non-leap February), 5 or 6. */
 internal fun weekRowsInMonth(ym: YearMonth, weekStart: DayOfWeek): Int {
     val first = firstOfMonth(ym)

app/src/main/java/de/jeanlucmakiola/calendula/ui/month/MonthViewStyle.kt

@@ -19,20 +19,34 @@ enum class MonthViewStyle {
     Paged,
 
     /**
-     * One uninterrupted vertical stream of weeks. Each date appears exactly once,
+     * Months stacked into one vertical scroll, each a self-contained block under
-     * which is the point — paging repeats a boundary week at both ends (#38).
+     * its own sticky header: a block shows only its own days, and whitespace
+     * separates it from the next (#38).
      */
     Continuous,
 
+    /**
+     * [Continuous] with the seams taken out: one uninterrupted stream of weeks
+     * where months flow into each other. Each date appears exactly once — paging
+     * repeats a boundary week at both ends — and the 1st names its month, the
+     * only marker of where one ends.
+     */
+    Dense,
+
     /** Compact dots-only grid over a list of the selected day's events (#53). */
     Split,
 }
 
+/** Both vertically scrolling styles, which share a data window and a list state. */
+val MonthViewStyle.isScrolling: Boolean
+    get() = this == MonthViewStyle.Continuous || this == MonthViewStyle.Dense
+
 @get:StringRes
 val MonthViewStyle.labelRes: Int
     get() = when (this) {
         MonthViewStyle.Paged -> R.string.month_style_paged
         MonthViewStyle.Continuous -> R.string.month_style_continuous
+        MonthViewStyle.Dense -> R.string.month_style_dense
         MonthViewStyle.Split -> R.string.month_style_split
     }
 
@@ -41,5 +55,6 @@ val MonthViewStyle.descriptionRes: Int
     get() = when (this) {
         MonthViewStyle.Paged -> R.string.month_style_paged_summary
         MonthViewStyle.Continuous -> R.string.month_style_continuous_summary
+        MonthViewStyle.Dense -> R.string.month_style_dense_summary
         MonthViewStyle.Split -> R.string.month_style_split_summary
     }

app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml

@@ -380,6 +380,8 @@
     <string name="month_style_paged_summary">One month at a time. Swipe sideways to change month.</string>
     <string name="month_style_continuous">Continuous</string>
     <string name="month_style_continuous_summary">Scroll up and down through the months. Each month keeps to itself under its own heading, with no days borrowed from its neighbours.</string>
+    <string name="month_style_dense">Dense</string>
+    <string name="month_style_dense_summary">The same endless scroll with the seams taken out — one unbroken run of weeks, months flowing into each other.</string>
     <string name="month_style_split">Split</string>
     <string name="month_style_split_summary">A compact grid with dots for events, and the day you tap listed underneath.</string>
     <string name="month_split_no_events">Nothing scheduled</string>

app/src/test/java/de/jeanlucmakiola/calendula/ui/month/ContinuousMonthIndexTest.kt

@@ -1,11 +1,14 @@
 package de.jeanlucmakiola.calendula.ui.month
 
 import com.google.common.truth.Truth.assertThat
+import kotlinx.datetime.DateTimeUnit
 import kotlinx.datetime.DayOfWeek
 import kotlinx.datetime.LocalDate
 import kotlinx.datetime.Month
 import kotlinx.datetime.TimeZone
 import kotlinx.datetime.YearMonth
+import kotlinx.datetime.minus
+import kotlinx.datetime.plus
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test
 
 /**
@@ -107,6 +110,56 @@ class ContinuousMonthIndexTest {
             }
     }
 
+    @Test
+    fun `the dense week window covers every week its months touch`() {
+        // One month-window load has to lay out every Dense row those months
+        // appear in, boundary weeks included, or rows would flicker as
+        // placeholders while the data for them is already in hand.
+        DayOfWeek.entries.forEach { ws ->
+            val window = monthIndexOf(jun26)..monthIndexOf(YearMonth(2026, Month.AUGUST))
+            val weeks = weekWindowFor(window, ws)
+            window.forEach { index ->
+                val ym = yearMonthForIndex(index)
+                val first = weekIndexOf(firstOfMonth(ym), ws)
+                val last = weekIndexOf(firstOfMonth(yearMonthForIndex(index + 1)).minus(1, DateTimeUnit.DAY), ws)
+                assertThat(weeks.contains(first)).isTrue()
+                assertThat(weeks.contains(last)).isTrue()
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a dense row reports the month that owns most of it`() {
+        // June 29 – July 5, 2026 (Monday-anchored): four of its days are July's,
+        // so the window follows July rather than snapping back to June.
+        val boundary = weekIndexOf(LocalDate(2026, 6, 29), DayOfWeek.MONDAY)
+        assertThat(monthIndexForWeek(boundary, DayOfWeek.MONDAY))
+            .isEqualTo(monthIndexOf(YearMonth(2026, Month.JULY)))
+        // A row wholly inside June reports June.
+        assertThat(monthIndexForWeek(weekIndexOf(LocalDate(2026, 6, 15), DayOfWeek.MONDAY), DayOfWeek.MONDAY))
+            .isEqualTo(monthIndexOf(jun26))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `every day of a dense week shares one index`() {
+        val mon = LocalDate(2026, 6, 8)
+        val indices = (0..6).map { weekIndexOf(mon.plus(it, DateTimeUnit.DAY), DayOfWeek.MONDAY) }
+        assertThat(indices.toSet()).hasSize(1)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `dense week indices round-trip and stay inside the list`() {
+        val wed = LocalDate(2026, 6, 10)
+        DayOfWeek.entries.forEach { ws ->
+            val index = weekIndexOf(wed, ws)
+            assertThat(weekStartForIndex(index, ws)).isEqualTo(wed.startOfGridWeek(ws))
+            assertThat(weekIndexOf(LocalDate(1900, 1, 1), ws)).isAtLeast(0)
+            assertThat(index).isLessThan(continuousWeekCount(ws))
+            assertThat(weekIndexOf(LocalDate(2100, 12, 31), ws))
+                .isLessThan(continuousWeekCount(ws))
+        }
+    }
+
     @Test
     fun `firstOfMonth is the 1st`() {
         assertThat(firstOfMonth(jun26)).isEqualTo(LocalDate(2026, 6, 1))