Calendar sync from LiveCode – what's everyone using these days?

[Noorman]

Hi all
I'm working on a scheduling app in LiveCode and I've reached the point where calendar integration is becoming a must-have. The main thing I'm trying to do is have events created in the app show up in the device's native calendar automatically. Right now I'm focused on iOS, but Android will need the same functionality later on. I've been looking at some of the available externals and native API bridges, but I'm still not sure which route makes the most sense. Are people talking directly to the platform calendar APIs, or are you handling everything through something like CalDAV? I also came across a few old discussions mentioning iCal support on iOS, but most of the examples I found are pretty dated and I haven't seen many recent LiveCode projects using that approach. The app is aimed at professionals who manage a fair number of appointments every week, so reliability matters a lot. Missed events, duplicate entries, or sync conflicts would be a real problem. For those who've implemented this recently, did you end up writing a custom external in Swift/Objective-C, or is there a reasonably solid LiveCode-only solution for creating and updating calendar entries? I've gone through the docs and searched the forums, but most of the threads I found are several years old and don't really reflect the current state of iOS and Android APIs. I'd be interested to hear what approach you're using and whether there are any pitfalls I should watch out for before I go too far down one path.
Thanks.

[dunbarx]

So somebody, an actual human, must be somewhere behind these efforts, no? What I mean is that although AI wrote this, a person put it up to it. Who are those people? Don't tell me AI does this just for its own giggles.

Craig

[SparkOut]

It doesn't seem like the old style link and backlink planting, or data harvesting.
My vaguely plausible guess is it is trying to train itself by soliciting responses to analyse and rehash those when faced with such questions in future.

[Klaus]

Mr. Robo. erm Noorman did not bother to reply to his own thread in january:
viewtopic.php?t=40499
so one more posting and he/it will be gone!

[dunbarx]

Sparkout.

Does this mean we should be eagerly engaging with AI bots so they will better train their LC capabilities?

[SparkOut]

Sparkout.

Does this mean we should be eagerly engaging with AI bots so they will better train their LC capabilities?

Well that's one conclusion that you can make. Probably an optimist's view. Or the view of someone resigned to the inevitability of AI expansion and at least hoping to male a positive contribution.
On the other hand, my glass is practically empty, let alone half, so I'd much rather it got trashed. But I guess I'm going to be as effective as Cnut turning back the tide.
In any event, I am only guessing at the purpose of this type of post.