I have a very clear understanding of how synchronization works, how the CalDAV protocol works, what an ical file is, how that relates to subscriptions, and the distinction between one-way and two-way synchronization. There is no sync in your method, you are simply viewing 2 different calendars in the same app, add an event to the Google Calendar and it will not appear in the iCloud Calendar. Locating the subscription on iCloud (as described above) eliminates this issue. But if you want to have a calendar subscription on all of your (multiple) iOS devices, you have to repeat the subscription step on every device. This type of sharing has been there for a long time, and still exists. (There are other ways to get the link to your iOS device, but this is probably the easiest.) On the iOS device, open the mail, click on the link, and Calendar will ask if you want to subscribe to the shared calendar. If you want to subscribe to a Google calendar on only one iOS device, take the link you copied in the above step, paste it into an e-mail, and send it to yourself.
#Using google calendar on macbook air mac
The calendar you subscribed to on your Mac will appear as a subscribed calendar in your list of "iCloud" calendars.īy the way. Click the "Calendar" button in the upper left to view your list of calendars. Now go to any of your iOS 5 devices that are associated with the same iCloud account (Apple ID). iCal should report (in the title bar) that it is updating. In the sheet that appears, choose "iCloud" in the "Location" pop-up menu. Paste the address you copied in the previous step into the "Calendar URL" field. Otherwise, if it's only for your use, copy the private ICAL address to the clipboard. If it is a public calendar, get the public ICAL address of the calendar. To the right of the calendar name you want to share, click on the little triangle and choose "Calendar settings". If on iCloud, that (read-only) subscription will propogate to all of your other devices that are linked to your iCloud account. Google) calendar in iCal on Lion, you can choose to have that subscription "located" on iCloud or on your Mac.
I am now looking into alternative calendaring apps which will operate through google calendar, meaning more money spent (not that it's an outrageous expense either) for something that I should in essence already be capable of doing.ĪPPLE FIX THIS! Where's the seamless technology? My father is a pastor and uses his iPad all the time as his workhorse. We already own your products and you forbid us sharing the content produced/managed on them? This is turning into a rant but I am growing sick and tired of this attitude(many companies are guilty of this, but Apple is a champ in being bad). Goes only one way (access to google cals is easy on the iPad, not the other way around).ĪPPLE IS SELFISH AND GREEDY AND ONLY CARES ABOUT SELLING THEIR OWN PRODUCTS ALL THE WHILE DENYING ACCESS TO THIRD PARTIES. I tried looking into sharing an iPad calendar with google calendars a long time ago and dropped it. ICloud prevents access to it's robots.xml file from a google calendar which in effect means no access to iCloud calendar. In practical use, there is very little difference between the two. If I want to share a Google calendar with another user and grant read/write access, that user also needs a Google account.
This is no different than Google calendar. To grant read/write access to an iCloud calendar, the other user needs to have an iCloud account. But hontestly, I rarely use a web interface for my calendars. I believe Google will display external subscriptions on their web interface. The one downside is that these subscriptions cannot be viewed on the website. With Google, I had to manually subscribe to a calendar on each of my devices. That is a huge bonus of iCloud over Google calendars (imo).