Re: Google Calendar Caldav support dropped?

On 14.03.2013 18:59, Philipp Kewisch wrote:
> On 3/14/13 12:23 PM, Peter Lairo wrote:
>> On Do. 14.03.2013 11:41, Virgo Pärna wrote:
>>>     For a some time it's been recommended to use CalDAV for Google
>>> Calendar. But in the light of
>>> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-second-spring-of-cleaning.html
>>> it seems, that Google is closing CalDAV access.
>>
>> The article only mentions developers ("will be shut down for other
>> developers on September 16, 2013"). Does that mean that Lightning can
>> still access Google calendars via CalDAV? Should mozilla apply to be
>> whitelisted to maintain CalDAV access? Are they shutting down CalDAV
>> altogether? What would be the new "better-than-iCal" solution?
>
>
> I have already applied for access. From what I've heard, it will still
> be possible to access Google via CalDAV afterwards with a few changes to
> Lightning itself.
>
> In the meanwhile, the Provider will of course continue to work.
>
> Philipp

It's frustruating to see Goggle is moving away from standard methods. 
Also it's good to know there are other services out there to support 
ICS/CalDAV. We recently started to support CalDAV with Reminderfox 
(reminderfox.org) and tested it successfully to communicate with 
Lightning via Remote Calendar systems: GoggleCalendar, fruux.com, 
ownCloud.org.
And -- if the Remote Calendar doesn't natively support devices -- there 
are tools to sync also those other Remote Calendars with devices 
(iPhone, iPad, Android) .. we tested fruux.com for that aspect and it 
works like a charm. So, also Google would not whitelist Moz/Lightning or 
Moz/Reminderfox there are other ways ..

Günter