Best Calendar App?

[DatacomGuy]

Hmmm, I could do that, but that is not recommended by the Android designers. Here is the quotation from Activity and Task Design Guidelines | Android Developers

If your background service needs to notify a user, use the standard notification system — don't use a dialog or toast to notify them. A dialog or toast would immediately take focus and interrupt the user, taking focus away from what they were doing: the user could be in the middle of typing text the moment the dialog appears and could accidentally act on the dialog. Users are used to dealing with notifications and can pull down the notification shade at their convenience to respond to your message.

I know that you do not have to agree with this
Maybe I will think of something which does not interfere with what the user is doing when notification is displayed...

Why not make it an option and leave it up to the user? I, personally, nearly cant live without this feature. The notification bar is good for some things, but not for things like calendar reminders.

I posted a thread asking whether or not this feature existed in any of the calendar apps, and got a great response from people looking for the exact same thing. I think you'll find ex-blackberry users seeking this more than others as its how the BB OS works by default and one gets accustomed to it.

http://androidforums.com/android-applications/61375-calendar-event-popup.html

I can understand what is being said in the developer guidelines.. but if you could make an option to send notifications to the notification drop-down, or to have a dismiss/snooze popup notification then you'd satisfy both.

Side note, set an option too in the options for the app to be able to change the default snooze time.. 15 mins, 30 mins, 1hr, 0.5 day, etc OR, when you select snooze on the popup, it'd give you a list of options for time (Snooze 15M, Snooze 30M, Snooze 1HR, etc etc etc)

Let me know your thoughts. I'd have already created this if I had the knowledge, but i'm a sales guy, not a programming guy

 

[Sakidroid]

Hello,

do you guys know of any calendar app that shows a notification icon of today's events in the status bar (other than QuickCalendar, which tends to crash every five minutes on my Droid). If not, do you know any calendar that shows appointments on the home screen, something like we had seen on the Nokia phones?

The reason I'm writing this because it makes life a lot easier if you don't have to actually enter your calendar app to see if anything is upcoming. It would be nice if something on the home screen reminded you that you have something to do.

Thanks, I really think this is a great forum!

 

[jae_63]

There are two quick add-event-to-cal apps in the Market:
-- Calendar Add Event (paid)
-- One Click Add Event (free)
Free one was just introduced a few weeks ago. I've used the paid app since September, first on a MyTouch and now my Droid. Works as advertised. They both look pretty much the same to me, both in appearance and operation. Try the freebie first. If there are problems, then the paid app.

Thanks for your posting, but these apps just bring up the mediocre builtin Android add-event. There's a decent "quick add" functionality within Pure Calendar/Pure Grid (although entering event-times is awkward for those of us without keyboards), and a much nicer event-add functionality within Gemini.

 

[jae_63]

Hello,

do you guys know of any calendar app that shows a notification icon of today's events in the status bar (other than QuickCalendar, which tends to crash every five minutes on my Droid). If not, do you know any calendar that shows appointments on the home screen, something like we had seen on the Nokia phones?

The reason I'm writing this because it makes life a lot easier if you don't have to actually enter your calendar app to see if anything is upcoming. It would be nice if something on the home screen reminded you that you have something to do.

Thanks, I really think this is a great forum!

The commercial Pure Calendar widget does this very well, IMO. The widget provided with the free Calendar Pad app does this pretty well. The bottom line is that you need a widget (not just an app) to put this sort of information on your home screen.

 

[alprk]

Hello All,

I have a simple requirement, I would like in the agenda view instead of seeing 23/04/10, I would like to see Sat 23 April 2010. People ask what you doing next wednesday and with most widgets I have to work out which date is wednesday.

Thanks if you can help

 

[atapjn]

i have the htc hero. Does anyone know if htere is a way to view the calender and have it set to show which dates i have appts on.. I had to search today threw teh entire month to find my appt so i could let me owrk knwo.. Can anyone help.

 

[atapjn]

Try jorte:
Jorte v1.1.2 Application for Android | Productivity

was just what i was lookign for.. Do i have to turn off the preinstalled app now??
and thanks

 

[pwabbit]

Hello All,

I have a simple requirement, I would like in the agenda view instead of seeing 23/04/10, I would like to see Sat 23 April 2010. People ask what you doing next wednesday and with most widgets I have to work out which date is wednesday.

Thanks if you can help

The "agenda view" widget for Calendar Pad Pro does this. Likely the free version does too.

 

[droid_freak]

I use Pure Calendar and really like the way it works and looks.

 

[Kobal]

Hello!
I suggest you to try my Gemini Calendar, it lets you to create events with recurring intervals as you need and it gives you some other interesting features.
There is no widget yet, but we are working on it.

Here is the link where I present Gemini Calendar: http://androidforums.com/applicatio...ini-calendar-my-vision-calendar-software.html

EDITED:

Gemini Calendar looks to be ALMOST exactly what I've been looking for! I need an app that makes it easy to input my odd work schedule (4 days on, then 4 days off, then 4 nights on, and so on) and the basic daily, weekly, M - F, etc options weren't working. With this app, I can set eight timers that reoccur every sixteen days - and show that schedule for years straight to come! Yes - my schedule is that predictable... And Gemini Calendar almost does it.

In testing it - the reoccurance got off for a few months at a time - and tried to freeze up and force a close... Maybe it's my Droid Incredible freaking it out??


Thanks for the info, powell. Here's hoping for updates and that upcoming widget!!

 

[reybt]

still not on my market with eris (maybe it does not work with 1.5?)

iRT Calendar for Android 1.5 is now available on the Android Market.

See also developers website: iRT WEB SOLUTIONS | The best in web and smart phone applications

 

[alprk]

I found android agenda widget, very nice indeed.

 

[Luke_A]

I've read through the entire forum, and have only seen one posting about a non-Monday to Friday calendar...
I'm looking for a calendar that could manage a classic high school rotating timetable... For example, 4 courses that rotate through a repeating 4 day schedule where each day is a particular shuffle of the courses. Some schools might also use an 8-course schedule rotating through 4 (or even 8) days...
Long story short, it does not follow a Monday-Friday schedule.

I'd be looking for something like this that could track tasks (ie. assignments) for each course...

Unfortunately, at this point, it would have to be compatible with Android 1.5 at this point, at least until a firmware upgrade becomes available.

Any thoughts? Any help?
Thanks!

 

[NexuSix]

I use Calendar Pad which syncs with Google Calendar and my external calendar that I subscribe to through Google Calendar.

 

[knightwing44]

This thread is a little confusing.

Are we talking STANDALONE calendars that DO NOT use the android / HTC calendars

OR

Calendars that do.

I find the android / HTC calendar annoying, so I'm looking for something that works totally seperate from those.

I downloaded Calendar Pad, which works nicely, BUT quickly came to realize that it uses the android calendar to work. Still like the setup so that's what I'm using for now, but definetly far from perfect.

knight

 

[Doctorjazz]

The two things I miss most having changed from Windows Mobile is Pocket Informant, a great PIM program (I found the included WM versions awful), and HanDBase, a great database program. They are both relatively expensive (compared to apps on the market or iPhone apps), but they were what made my PDA essential, and I used them often daily (I still drag my Dell x51v around to access them). HanDBase is said to be working on an Android version, PIM still seems iffy for Android as far as I can see.

 

[kokiangel]

Yeah, Gemini Calendar is the best I have found so far. It is still being tweaked by the dev so you just might get exactly what you need from it. I set it in my launcher as one of the main shortcuts that follows the various screens so it is easy to find at a click.

Pure Grid Calendar is good too but you can't see the daily events and the whole calendar at the same time.

 

[DeeCee52]

The two things I miss most having changed from Windows Mobile is Pocket Informant, a great PIM program (I found the included WM versions awful), and HanDBase, a great database program. They are both relatively expensive (compared to apps on the market or iPhone apps), but they were what made my PDA essential, and I used them often daily (I still drag my Dell x51v around to access them). HanDBase is said to be working on an Android version, PIM still seems iffy for Android as far as I can see.

lol, so do I! ditto on both apps. Scrollable and color coded events on the home screen. Several batteries later, my Axim x51v is still rocking solid after 5 years!

PIM for Android is an absolute must. Is there something about the android platform that makes this difficult or is Google being overly protective of its serving of life in the cloud. Whatever the reason, I hope the situation is remedied sooner rather than later.

 

[bob_54]

+1 for Gemini. Though it is a beta I haven't found any problems. He is an ACTIVE developer and I'm looking forward to future versions.

 

[Bswartz95]

+1 for Gemini. Though it is a beta I haven't found any problems. He is an ACTIVE developer and I'm looking forward to future versions.

I really like the Gemini calendar app too. Right now I'm using it in addition to the Calwidget. If Gemini comes out with a widget, I will use it exclusively.

 

[Lizzrd]

To stay topical, I'll add that I've happily been using Jorte for a little over a month now. But what I'm still searching for is a "Today" app/widget that will show me my current day's schedule at a glance.

Any recs for this?

 

[captaincanada84]

I'm using Pure Calendar Widget now...love it

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[NexuSix]

I am found that Android Agenda Widget is awesome. I still use Calendar Pad also.

 

[RustyNail]

The two things I miss most having changed from Windows Mobile is Pocket Informant, a great PIM program (I found the included WM versions awful), and HanDBase, a great database program.

FYI -- The folks over at WebIS are supposedly working on a version of PI for Android.

 

[tdieckman]

To stay topical, I'll add that I've happily been using Jorte for a little over a month now. But what I'm still searching for is a "Today" app/widget that will show me my current day's schedule at a glance.

Any recs for this?

You should try out the Blik Calendar Widget. It's still in beta, but is very stable, and sounds like it might get you what you want.