Orgzly-android: Calendar support

[dstrelnikov]

Good day!

Is it possible to add calendar support feature? I mean that app create a separate local calendar on my smartphone, which can be displayed in any calendar app.
I like its realization in Simpletask Cloudless. If I set a due date or a trashold date for todo item that this item will displayed in a calendar.

Sorry for my bad English =)

[dstrelnikov]

So, if somebody is interested with it, now I'm using Emacs Org-mode -> Export to iCalendar -> rsync -> ICSdroid to view a local .ics file in a calendar app.

It works and it follows unix-way but not so convinient as it may be.

I think that Issue #235 is not very relevant to my request. As I know, Simple Task app, which works with todo.txt, uses Android Calendar Storage API for creating events in a separate local calendar, which may be shown in any calendar app. It doesn't use third-party proprietary services.

I'm not Android programmer but I'm ready to be useful if there is something that I can do.

It looks like such feature in Simple Task contains in this file.

[tuvok]

Is there a chance this will ever get done? ;)
Is this feature a lot of work?

[heyarne]

I second this. Would be super cool to have

• One or multiple local calendars that is provided by orgzly and can be viewed in a calendar app on Android
• One or multiple calendars that can be synced via CalDAV; I don't know if this is easily possible though. It could break as soon as the calendar is edited remotely in an editor that's not compatible with org-mode if the mapping of org -> ical (or whatever) isn't clean

[reyman]

An interesting candidate would be EteSync, an issue is already posted here : https://github.com/etesync/android/issues/87

[heyarne]

I just wanted to note there's also already https://github.com/dengste/org-caldav for doing caldav integration. Maybe that could be looked at for compatibility?

[larkery]

I have hacked this together: https://github.com/larkery/orgcal which does this, but not within orgzly. I use it alongside orgzly which is _ok_

It's not too complicated, once you've got the mad android calendar API down, but does require some kind of ID for entries to make synchronization possible.