Google Calendar and iOS App
Mar 14, 2016 | 2:49 pm
#1
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Google Calendar and iOS App
I've had a look at look at Calendars 5 and Fantastical 2 iOS iPhone apps.
But I still need three things that are lacking
1) Ability to handle multiple Google accounts - not one Google account with multiple calendars but multiple Google accounts. Somewhere in there, multiple TripIt calendar feeds need to be brought into the picture.
2) When I create a new calendar entry on iOS device, the ability to sync this new entry UP from iOS app to Google Calendar.
3) Ability to sync down text and info entered in the "Description" text field in Google Calendar (web).
4) [Preferable but not required] Uses Google Maps app on iOS rather than Apple Maps app when requesting a map of location based on calendar entry (address/location field of Google Maps web).
Tx!
But I still need three things that are lacking
1) Ability to handle multiple Google accounts - not one Google account with multiple calendars but multiple Google accounts. Somewhere in there, multiple TripIt calendar feeds need to be brought into the picture.
2) When I create a new calendar entry on iOS device, the ability to sync this new entry UP from iOS app to Google Calendar.
3) Ability to sync down text and info entered in the "Description" text field in Google Calendar (web).
4) [Preferable but not required] Uses Google Maps app on iOS rather than Apple Maps app when requesting a map of location based on calendar entry (address/location field of Google Maps web).
Tx!
Mar 14, 2016 | 3:30 pm
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Aren't 1-3 baked into the OS?
1. Just add multiple Google accounts in Settings -> Mail, COntacts, Calendars
1a. Log into your TripIt account and find the webcal link for your calendar feed, then add it in iOS (Add Account -> Other -> Add Subscribed Calendar).
2. This is how iOS works.
3. It just works. What are you not seeing?
4. The stock Calendar app will only ever use Apple Maps. I use Week Cal, which pops up a little window asking which map app you want to open things in.
1. Just add multiple Google accounts in Settings -> Mail, COntacts, Calendars
1a. Log into your TripIt account and find the webcal link for your calendar feed, then add it in iOS (Add Account -> Other -> Add Subscribed Calendar).
2. This is how iOS works.
3. It just works. What are you not seeing?
4. The stock Calendar app will only ever use Apple Maps. I use Week Cal, which pops up a little window asking which map app you want to open things in.
Mar 15, 2016 | 11:13 am
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Google has their own calendar app too, which I recently started using.
I linked my Google calendar to the old Mobile Me by CalDAV or something so both my Apple Calendar and the Google Calendar apps. have the same data.
However when I create events in the Google Calendar apps., it correctly preserves the settings I set up for my account, such as the number and type of notifications.
But multiple accounts can probably be displayed as the Apple Calendar shows multiple calendars on top of each other.
I linked my Google calendar to the old Mobile Me by CalDAV or something so both my Apple Calendar and the Google Calendar apps. have the same data.
However when I create events in the Google Calendar apps., it correctly preserves the settings I set up for my account, such as the number and type of notifications.
But multiple accounts can probably be displayed as the Apple Calendar shows multiple calendars on top of each other.
