I have a client that created a custom mail server that has the calendars feature and wants the users to be able to sync their calendars in iOS Calendars built-in app.
I do not know how do this using the built-in iOS Calendars App.
I tried to setup in the Apple Development Account an app that use the Apple Push Notifications service but it looks like I have to create an application.
I didn't find any information on web.
Any suggestion where to start?
Thank you.
The "native" protocol for the iOS Calendars app is CalDAV. So what you really want is to have your server implement https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4791
The Calconnect Developer's guide is a good source of information for such a project: https://devguide.calconnect.org/Table-of-Contents
It lists some server side libraries that you probably want to build your implementation on top of: https://devguide.calconnect.org/CalDAV/libraries/
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I am developing Xamarin.Forms application which will be used for Android and iOS. It will have access to full functionality with a paid subscription.
I researched about subscriptions policy for Play Market and App Store and they require to use their in-app billing if an application gives access to some of its functionality only with a subscription.
But if, for example, user buys the subscription in Android app and then wants to use iOS app - what is the best way to handle this? Since subscriptions are created separately on Play Market and App Store side they need to be somehow synced?
That's probably a problem that was solved a ton of times, but I can't find how to do it
This is explicitly allowed on the platforms, e.g., here's an excerpt from Apple's App Review Guidelines:
3.1.3(b) Multiplatform Services: Apps that operate across multiple platforms may allow users to access content, subscriptions, or
features they have acquired in your app on other platforms or your web
site, including consumable items in multi-platform games, provided
those items are also available as in-app purchases within the app.
As to how to do this: Basically you have to have user authentication and a backend that ties a subscription status to a user ID. Also, the backend needs to keep the subscription status up to date by refreshing the subscriptions with the stores (Apple App Store, Google Play Store).
(If you weren't using Xamarin, I'd recommend using RevenueCat for this (disclaimer: I work there), but we don't have a Xamarin SDK so I don't think
that that's a possibility)
I have enrolled a phone via google solutions (Android Management API: https://developers.google.com/android/management/reference/rest/v1/enterprises.policies). This one is correctly enrolled and all works correctly.
My question is very simple: Can we send an Android notification to this phone just by using google api ?
I have searched a lot on google and it doesn't seem to be implemented. Do you know if this will be implemented soon or never?
If we can't go through google api (Android Management API), what would be the most efficient way to notify a phone?
Thank you,
Sincerely.
Adrien.
Unfortunately, AMAPI does not have a feature for sending notifications to the device using the cloud DPC. You will have to implement notifications in a companion app to support the desired functionality.
I am developing mobile app by using nativescript with angular. For earlier version of the app, we didn't include Push Notification when we published the app on both stores. Now, we included Push Notification in the app. It is OK when I published the app on Google Play Store. But when I built the app to upload on the Apple Store, I got the following error.
If you already this problem and solved, please let me know how you solved it.
You need to activate Push Notification capabilities from xcode for your provisioning profile.
Check this questionXcode Push notifications
Go to https://developer.apple.com/ and edit your App Id settings.
Should be under App Ids inside Identifiers in left hand side. and then select your app id's Setup and configure services for this App ID. Enabled the Push Notifications.
You need to regenrate the provison profile for this is.
I've got an application that does user provisioning for Google apps (specialty provisioning).
I got to thinking, instead of going into the developer console for each customer currently using the application that it may make sense to publish the app in the market place.
Is this appropriate to do? Also, there are limits on each api key on how many requests can be done. Would a new api key get generated for each customer installing from the marketplace? Is there anything else I need to be concerned on this?
I didn't fully understand your questions so i'll try to answer the best I can.
Yes, it would be easier for your customers, especially new customers, to find your app in Marketplace. From there they can install it easier.
Not sure what you meant by "instead of going into the developer console for each customer currently using the application". Do you create a new console project for each customer?
Are you using the Provisioning API? This API is being deprecated and it will stop working by April 20, 2015. Instead you should use the Directory API.
What do you mean with "API Key"? Is it Project ID? When users install the app, the app will use the same Project ID.
You should keep in mind that there are quotas for using Google services that will go against that Project ID.
I am about to build a simple webapp that has several tasks, each of which has got a due date.
I would like this webapp to automatically sync with Google Calendar, Outlook and Apple Calendar - 2-way integration would be a plus.
The webapp is built on a LAMP server.
What's the cleverest way I can go about this from a point of view of limiting the workload as much as possible?
And also, is that even possible? I wasn't able to find an API for Outlook or Apple Calendar.
Is CalDev the answer? Is there any product/software that will do that automatically, so that I need only to sync with it and it will do the rest?
Thanks.
You could do the following:
Synchronize your proprietary calendar with Google Calendar (make this your "master calendar") using the GCal API; if your application can produce a valid ICS file then you can import it directly to Google Calendar. As this feature is discontinued by Google you can use some online WebDAV based import/export service (I use for this Synqya)
Use the WebDAV access to the Google Calendar to synchronize Outlook and Apple Calendar with it using their calendar subscription features (this would be one way sync). If you need secured access to GCal and 2-way sync, it will involve further steps.