Comments on: SyncEvolution 0.7 and beyond – Calendar Support for the iPhone?!

By: ][ stefano maffulli » Funambol on Mac OS X, part 1

][ stefano maffulli » Funambol on Mac OS X, part 1 — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:48:08 +0000

[...] that’s it. SyncEvolution doesn’t support tasks nor calendar yet, but at least the AddressBook support is pretty good and stable. If you are a Mac programmer or you [...]

By: Tyler

Tyler — Thu, 15 May 2008 02:32:14 +0000

It may be that this information is not news to anyone here, but just in case, I’ll post what I know about getting 2-way sync between Google Calendar and iPhone/IPod Touch. I did a lot of searching to figure out how to make it work, and I’m very happy now that I’ve got it working well for me.

I have found two successful ways to do it, but neither are entirely free.

1) If you already own Microsoft Outlook, you can set iTunes to synch your iPhone/iPod Touch calendar with Outlook, and then use Google Calendar’s free Outlook synch program. It works fine, if you happen to have Outlook. I don’t personally want to buy Outlook, so I use the next method.

2) Use SyncJE plus ScheduleWorld. SyncJE provides a 15 day trial, but after that you have to buy it. It costs $40 and never expires. I am currently using the trial but I expect I will buy it. It seems to work very well.

Hope this info is useful to somebody.

By: SyncEvolution - The Missing Link : SyncEvolution for the iPhone: What’s Next?

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:36:35 +0000

[...] has finally announced the SDK for the iPhone. In contrast to what I had hoped earlier, it does not seem to contain any documentation about accessing the calendar data. The AddressBook [...]

By: Ingvar Hagelund

Ingvar Hagelund — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:39:59 +0000

There are some ugly bugs in ical2sqlite. I wrote a perl script that downloads ical data from our Open-Xchange server, circumvents the bugs that bite me hardest, converts and uploads the result to the iphone. http://users.linpro.no/ingvar/updateiphonecalendar

Anyone got ical2sqlite to work on x86_64? It only crashes for me.

Ingvar

By: Gregoire Gentil

Gregoire Gentil — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 20:18:18 +0000

Congratulations for your outstanding syncevolution! For the calendar support, I think that everybody is waiting for it! You may take a look at:
http://wayetender.spawnpoint.com/
http://epowerservices.com/personal/ical2sqlite-0.1.tar.gz
This guy has just implemented a one-way synchronization mechanism but at least, you have the structure of the calendar database.

By: Patrick Ohly

Patrick Ohly — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 10:47:13 +0000

Henrik, thanks for your kind comments and the offer to sponsor calendar synchronization. Because 0.7 took so much of my time I decided to start accepting PayPal donations but simply sending a post card is just as well – see http://www.estamos.de/projects/SyncML/Support.html#Supporting+SyncEvolution

Future support for calendars/memos/tasks depends mostly on the effort required to implement that, and that in turn hinges on the availability of documentation about the APIs. Currently I wait for Apple’s iCal API (part of Leopard) and the native iPhone SDK before deciding anything.

So please, don’t donate unless you already like and use what is available now because I don’t want to promise delivering anything beyond that just yet.

If there is some other open source developer who wants to work on calendar support right away, then I’d be happy to start a fund raising campaign on behalf of that developer and/or help getting started with SyncML and the classes in SyncEvolution which have to be implemented (but that part is pretty easy).

By: Henrik

Henrik — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:13:13 +0000

Let me start by saying: this is amazing! Someone finally made the iPhone SyncML-compatible. Wonderful!

But… I’d really want to be able to sync the calendar aswell.

I’d be interested in sponsoring such development, if that is needed.

Otherwise: great work!