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I've been experimenting with #WebCAL subscription on #Android and the difficulties encountered clearly show how much power the owners of the devices in our pockets have.

Such a simple operation like "following" peers is made hard for no technical reason: stock apps do not support that, you have to install something external.

As of today what you need is: install #ICSx5 to subscribe and #ETAR to also see the URL field of the events.

Do you know any simpler way ?

I've been experimenting with #WebCAL subscription on #Android and the difficulties encountered clearly show how much power the owners of the devices in our pockets have.

Such a simple operation like "following" peers is made hard for no technical reason: stock apps do not support that, you have to install something external.

As of today what you need is: install #ICSx5 to subscribe and #ETAR to also see the URL field of the events.

Do you know any simpler way ?

I've been experimenting with #WebCAL subscription on #Android and the difficulties encountered clearly show how much power the owners of the devices in our pockets have.

Such a simple operation like "following" peers is made hard for no technical reason: stock apps do not support that, you have to install something external.

As of today what you need is: install #ICSx5 to subscribe and #ETAR to also see the URL field of the events.

Do you know any simpler way ?

If you wan to follow my experiments, here's what I'm manually crafting: https://elifinquartet.pallamondo.net/eventi/cal.ics

It worked fine with #ICSx5 but not with google calendar, but maybe I should updated the timestamp like it's done with DNS zones...

Btw, if you know if an easy to deploy HTML renderer (maybe in javascript?) I'd be happy to provide a web view of that .ics file

How would you help non-tech friends subscribe to WebCal URLs ?

So far I've tried a couple of ways to do that: via #ICSx5 app (Android only) and via a Google account (Google only). This leaves out iOS users (yes, I do have such unfortunate friends too).

For hacker friends I know what to suggest to subscribe, just ask if you need help there :)

#SharingCalendars

I'm looking for an easy way to subscribe to an .ics URL from an #Android phone - I've given #ICSx5 a try but I don't see the events showing up in my calendar, @davx5app is it supposed to be transparent ? The URL I'm subscribing to is https://mobilizon.it/@elifinquartet/feed/ics - it is shown in ICSx5 but not in the stock calendar app

Some background (in italian) is in https://mastodon.uno/@strk/114440170485310925

@tezoatlipoca

Found 'em!

#DAVx5 and #ICSx5 app devs are
@davx5app

#Etar calendar devs don't appear to be in the Fediverse after all...

And everyone already knows about
@nextcloud, right?

@tezoatlipoca

I use #DAVx5 to retrieve #CalDAV enabled calendars (eg. on my own server running @nextcloud ) and #ICSx5 for other read-only calendars, eg. Google or MeetUp[*]. Both sync seamlessly with the native Android calendar, or other calendar apps such as #Etar.

I'm pretty sure the DAVx5/ICSx5 and Etar developers are in the Fediverse, but search is so awful...

[*] I haven't used MeetUp in years, it's just an example.

OK, I'm trying out the #Etar calendar.

Flawless import of my Android calendar settings, including all the @davx5app and #ICSx5 links. And it's prettier! Haven't used the new functionality of .ics exports yet, although I'm getting an error when trying to save an event to the SD card.

Too bad The Etar Group isn't in the Fediverse.

@liaizon @nextcloud @fdroidorg

@liaizon Calendar app? Now that's a can of worms...

I use the vanilla calendar app that comes bundled with Android, but what makes it usable is @davx5app connected to my @nextcloud, and #ICSx5 to pick up other miscellaneous calendars, including public calendars from Google.

Both apps are available from @fdroidorg

(edit: linkified @DAVx5app)

Extra special shout out to ICSx5 https://icsx5.bitfire.at/ #icsx5 for being exactly what I needed right when I needed it!

@JanBittner Mit #iCSx5 geht das. Brauchst aber eine der üblichen Kalender-Apps, um den entsprechenden Kalender dort anzuzeigen (z. B. #Etar oder #SimpleCalendar): https://icsx5.bitfire.at/

@jr @norbert @schuppenvogel #Etar, teilweise in Verbindung mit #DAVx5 oder #ICSx5.