GCalendarSync v0.1 Screenshots
GCalendarSync allows you to import events from one or more of your Google Calendars directly to your Windows Mobile PDA or Smartphone over the air using GPRS, without docking or using Outlook or the desktop computer in any way. Release + Source is coming later today. Coming in a couple days is the reverse-sync feature so that you can make changes to your google calendar directly on the Smartphone and changes will sync back up to Google.
I’m not quite ready to release it this second, so here are some screenshots of the process of using the app. Like all Windows Mobile apps, after you close it it can still run in the background, so that allows it to run scheduled imports. Basically every minute it hits a timer interval and checks to see if it should import again (default time between imports is 60 minutes). Right now it is more of an Import than a “Sync” tool. But in the next release I will should have two-way syncro going so that you can make changes right on your phone and have those changes sent back up to Google…
And now, the screenshots (after the jump)
Step 1: Enter your username and password
Step 2: Click “Pick Calendars” – at this point, we connect to the Google API to list all the calendars you own and those you subscribe to
Step 3: Check off the calendars you wish to import
Step 4: Click “Done”, then it asks if you want to do an immediate import. Say “Yes”
Step 5: Import in progress
Step 6: Done, # of events is reported. You can now close the app and it will continue to import/update every 60 minutes in the background.
Binaries and source coming tonight.
January 17th, 2008 at 10:58 am
Hi, I am having the same problem. I just downloaded it and I love the looks of this app. A very simple solution. It locates my google calendar and correctly displays a list of calendars, but it does not seem to be downloading anything. It always just says imported 0 and exported 0.
Any help would be appreciated.
Incidentally, I have the Sprint Mogul with WM6
Thanks,
Doug
January 15th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
With the change of blog locations, I am a bit lost in the exchanges, but in December there were a number of comments saying that everything seemed normal, but always ended up saying “imported 0, exported 0″ etc. That is my experience and I am also using Mobile 5 on an HP iPAQ. You replied that you did not have a PDA to test it. I doubt that I could help much in the coding, but I did see that Microsoft has emulators for each of the versions. (Microsoft Windows Mobile software for Pocket PCs) But, I would assume that you are aware of that and it may not serve to help in this case. Anyway, I appreciate your efforts hope to someday be able to use it.
January 5th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Thegooley,
Thanks!
And thank you for sharing the code. Does it sync both ways? If I put something on my calendar in my PDA, will it appear on my Google calendar?
Bongoman
January 5th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Bongoman -
It’s open source. Anyone can download the source here and see that there’s no funny business.
That said, this is an unsupported, not fully tested app that I made for myself and decided to share. You use it at your own risk, I make no warranties of privacy or anything else.
January 5th, 2008 at 8:23 am
Hey guys,
how secure is this? Is there anyone looking behind the curtains at my calendar when I use this api?
Sounds great according to the screenshots. Lovely. But I care about my privacy. Who can assure me that none of my calendars are not secretely send somewhere else when I use the service?
Please publish something about the architecture you are using. And about a privacy statement of your information when people use the system.
Regards,
Bongoman
December 13th, 2006 at 4:57 pm
sweetness, I’ve been meaning to write this too.