Monday, December 9, 2013

Synchronizing owncloud's contacts and calendar with Android

Owncloud offers it's own calendar and it can also store contacts. These can be accessed via CalDAV and CardDAV internet standard. As of Android, there is no direct option to configure other DAV clients to be used, so there is need to use 3rd party application.
I am using two applications from play store:
which are working great.

Setup is really simple, just enter your credentials and add DAV link:
  • for calendar:
https://mydomain.sk/owncloud/remote.php/caldav/calendars/krisko/owncloudcal
-where krisko is my username and owncloudcal is the name of calendar (you can see it when you open Settings in owncloud calendar.
  • for contacts:
https://mydomain.sk/owncloud/remote.php/carddav/addressbooks/krisko/contacts 

You can get the above links by clicking on Globe icon in calendar/contacts settings.

3 comments:

  1. Hi Krisko, I used a different app and there the configuration seems to be able with a much simpler url. So for my contacts I installed ContactSync (CardDAV) (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vcard.android.free) and a different one for calendars I used this here https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.icalparse (syncs to Owncloud using CalDAV)

    There I could use a much shorter url https://mydomain.sk/owncloud/remote.php/caldav/ for my appointments and https://mydomain.sk/owncloud/remote.php/carddav/ for the contacts and e.g. all the addressbooks have been found automaticaly and I did not need to type in such a long url (I would for sure enter multiple typing errors with such a long one :D)

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    1. Thanks for the comment. Yes, shorter URL is better :D
      I wonder if the applications I use can deal with this short URLs. Next time I'll try.

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    2. On Firefox OS, only the shorter URL is valid.

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