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For my day job I work on a Calendar application. We provide a CalDav service for customers to access their Calendar data. While it can get tricky to support all
by Osiris 14y ago
For my day job I work on a Calendar application. We provide a CalDav service for customers to access their Calendar data. While it can get tricky to support all the variations, it's a solid standard that makes integration really easy.
One problem we have is that Android doesn't natively support CalDav, so we can't integrate with the built-in Android calendar like we can with iOS's calendar.
For those that work with calendars, CalDav is a well documented standard for sharing calendar data. It robustly handles all the use cases that we've been able to think of (including edge cases).
It's disappointing to hear that Google will discontinue the service. I'm sure lots of iOS and Mac users use the CalDav sync to natively sync their Google Calendar to their devices. How will users of native apps be able to get their calendar now?
- kalleboo 14y agoExchange ActiveSync Edit: I forgot they're turning off ActiveSync for free users later this year
- Aco- 14y agoThis is massively bad news if both CalDAV & EAS support will be ixnayed by google before end of year. I have been a long time android user and had every intention of continuing down that path, but recently my job has required me to use Exchange ActiveSync to access my corporate mail & calendar data on my device, its a bit of a hassle but at least it's supported. Does this mean that future versions of android will not have support for such a (common business related) setup? If this is true I foresee it alienating a large portion of their user base.