Google Calendar Now CalDAV-Enabled: Bring on the Feedback

By Neal Gafter, Software Engineer

The Calendar team was the first to launch its Google Data API back in 2006, and in that proud tradition, we're excited to offer an additional way for developers to read from, and write to Google Calendar: the CalDAV protocol. (CalDAV — an extension of WebDAV — is an evolving, open standard for calendar synchronization.)

So far we've focused on Apple's iCal 3.0 as a first working example of 2-way Google Calendar sync over CalDAV.* But we're calling all current and prospective CalDAV developers to help us firm up the implementation, and make it play nice with other popular CalDAV-friendly clients.

For information on how Google Calendar data maps to the CalDAV protocol, please check out our CalDAV developer's guide. And of course, don't hesitate to hurl feedback in the general direction of our Google Group.

* Disclaimer: during this developer-focused release, and in light of known issues, we strongly suggest that you restrict Google Calendar <> iCal 3.0 synchronization to test accounts only.

Google Macintosh group announces Objective-C library for Google data APIs

Posted by Dion Almaer, Google Developer Programs

We are always excited to see new libraries come about that enable developers to easily access our Google data services. Today, the Google Macintosh group has released an Objective-C Google data APIs library that does just that for all Objective-C developers.

Greg Robbins, Software Engineer in the Google Macintosh team, wrote about the release:

I created a framework to use Google data APIs directly in Objective-C programs. We are using the framework for our application development, and today we are making the framework available to all developers. The Google Data APIs Objective-C Library joins MacFUSE and Breakpad as open-source development efforts of Google's Mac software team, hosted at code.google.com.

Google Calendar, Google Base, Google Spreadsheets, and generic Atom feeds like Blogger are supported now in the framework, with access to more services already in development. If you are a Mac developer, I hope you'll join the open-source project and help us make even more Mac applications Google-savvy.

I look forward to seeing slick, beautiful, Apple application UIs that are backed by Google APIs.