[Kde-pim] Android and KDE-PIM

Ingo Klöcker kloecker at kde.org
Fri Jul 10 12:32:19 BST 2009


On Thursday 09 July 2009, Andrew Mason wrote:
> On 7/9/09, Mike Arthur <mike at mikearthur.co.uk> wrote:
> > 2009/7/9 Andrew Mason <slackmase2 at gmail.com>:
> >> Hi All,
> >> I've just switched phone networks and been given an HTC Magic
> >> running Android. Firstly is it possible to currently sync the
> >> contacts/ calendar with Kontact ?
> >> If not, as a developer but someone not experienced with KDE
> >> development or kdepim , where would i begin if i wanted to add
> >> this functionality. Would i need to create a new android app which
> >> would allow kde-pim access to this information ? Basically looking
> >> for some advice about the best approach for writing this
> >> functionality.
> >
> > Syncing with Android means syncing with Google Contacts/Calendar.
> > There is a googledata resource for this that uses libgcal.
>
> So there is no application on the phone it's self that actually
> stores contacts /calendar information ? I haven't actually got the
> phone its self yet so i don't yet know how the whole thing works.

Yes. Everything is stored on Google's servers. You really have to trust 
Goo"Don't be evil."gle. I suppose some information will be cached on the 
phone though.


Regards,
Ingo
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