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Agendus for iPhone and Calendar: aswers to frequently asked questions.
A number of users are wondering why Agendus for iPhone is currently not including
a calendaring functionality. We recently had an interview with Shaun, Editor in
Chief of pda247, where we explained where we stand with calendar support, and our
plans for the immediate future. The complete article is reported below.
To keep up-to-date with our progress in adding calendaring support, make sure to subscribe to our iPhone announcements mailing list. You are also
welcome to join us on the Agendus for iPhone forum.
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Agendus is heading to the iPhone imminently and one area that has raised discussion
is the lack of calendar functionality in the first version. We caught up with Adriano
from iambic to find out why...
1/ Agendus has become a way of life for many Palm OS and Windows Mobile users and
some seem upset that calendar functionality is not in the first version. Why is
it missing?
I totally understand those Agendus users out there who, when hearing version 1.0
of the iPhone flavour has no calendar integration, feel disappointed. Sadly enough,
so far Apple doesn't allow any third party app to access the calendar. Essentially
the iPhone SDK doesn't provide functions allowing developers to tie into calendar
related data. Why is this? Unclear at the moment, but on the other hand there are
some APIs allowing access to contact info, which we are fully taking advantage of,
and these allow us to integrate contacts. Unfortunately things don't appear to change
much even in version 3 of the SDK, or at least in the latest beta version we have,
there still is no Calendar related API.
2/ How do you view adding synchronisation with Google Calendar as a stop gap measure?
We considered going for the route of implementing our own calendar storage and syncing
it with online services, such as Google Calendar, but that just didn't seem ideal.
More often than not the user would end up with some appointments in one calendar
(the native iPhone Calendar) and some other appointments in Agendus.
Exchange users would keep getting their appointments in the native calendar, same
applies for users of other online calendars supporting the Exchange ActiveSync protocol,
such as the recently released Google Sync for iPhone (not sure how things would
play out if getting the native calendar populated through Google Sync, and then
Agendus syncing with Google Calendar as well).
3/ Will calendar functionality be included when Apple opens the iPhone restrictions
up?
Absolutely, in fact we are already working on a framework for native calendar support
in order to get the calendaring support into Agendus as soon as we are able to access
the native storages. We are also researching alternate ways of getting to the native
calendar storages, without going for the jailbroken option.
4/ What's the ultimate goal for Agendus for iPhone?
It very much is the same of all our other flavours of Agendus – to become an all-in-one
personal information manager for organizing and tracking the essentials that drive
our daily lives. I know this might sound like a tall goal, but ultimately it's what
we strive to accomplish with all of our flavours of Agendus across the various OSes.
Version 1.0 might still be far from reaching such a goal, but as it happened for
all our other versions of Agendus, we plan to improve, integrate, and adapt the
application through ongoing updates while constantly listening to users' feedback.
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