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martin_dd | 1 year ago

Hi, thanks for checking it out :)

Exactly like you said KittyCal started as a “toy” so I designed it as a private space for couples didn’t think much about integrating existing calendars. Also KittyCal intentionally gives up hourly scheduling so any event created would automatically become a full-day event if synced to external calendars.

CalDAV does seem interesting, will definitely look into it.

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pjerem|1 year ago

CalDAV is cool but will be hard to integrate. It basically needs its own server.

However, if you want to continue in the « toy » direction, supporting ics format is a good option.

.ics files are calendar files : they may contain one or multiple events (like the whole calendar) and they are easy to generate in most programming languages.

What becomes interesting is that from any calendar app you can import this ics file (which is pretty unpractical in your case) but you can also subscribe to a calendar. For this you just have to provide an url to an .ics file that your backend may generate when requested (it’s just a text file).

Of course with this solution, you get a one way sync only, for classical two way sync you need CalDAV.

martin_dd|1 year ago

That's a good idea, thank you. I used to receive .ics files in email attachments all the time and the format seems easy to work with.