I was wondering how to add a calendar to my app either by using google calendars or any other idea to do it?

Calendars are tough. A 'natural' calendar, like a square / grid will all the dates 'barely fits' on most screens so it's hard to produce a nice looking HTML calendar. Some have done it, most look crappy. Google Calendards work 'OK' and are very popular. The idea is that you create a public calendar on Google then create a simple HTML doc, the paste the Embed Code from Google Calendars in the HTML. Next, put your HTML file on your website then point to it with your mobile app. Again, works OK for some but not ideal (in my opinion). I like 'list' type calendars where the days run from top-to-bottom. It seems more natural for my to scroll up / down to see the details about each day. Tough to do this by tapping tiny little squares ;-) It's a matter of balancing your design to best suite your needs.

Is there an image to see better what you mean with list type calendars?

Um..maybe visit a popular blog, like techcrunch.com on your mobile phone. This is what I mean. A list of 'daily stories' or 'events'. They use a word-press theme (I think) that formats data in a list, day-by-day. Again, just my preference.

Thanks that looks better than implementing the google calendar like I had tried.

Using Google Calendar's RSS feed would be ideal - I've been unable to get it working in buzztouch in either version and it's not working. Any thoughts about this? https://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/67b8tm15d71d7924s8668nds28%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic

Hi in LA: Cool schedule, I especially like the How to Start your own business with iPhone.... post. Good stuff. I looked at the data the URL you posted returns. I did this using Firefox then 'view source.' There is lots and lots of HTML in the data, generally a bad idea when dealing with iPhone RSS Screens. Lets do this before we continue. First, see if you can change the output format on the Google Calendar. It's been awile since I messed with this but you may have some options in the Calendars settings. If you do, see if you can output something 'plain' without the HTML markup in each story. If you can't, OK, we'll work another angle. Re-post your findings and we'll go from there.

I'm not sure but will try. I did get a blogger widget to work on this last night on this temporary blog which has all the information I would like. Not sure how to from this to buzztouch. http://bobologycalendar.blogspot.com/

RSS format is both simple and complext. For some, it makes perfect sense and is easily understandable. For others, it's impossible! Funny. So...the trick is to get your head around how the RSS if formatted and to be able to understand how each element is mapped to the list of items in your app. In buzztouch v1.4 there is almost zero flexibility in the RSS screens. This means if it's not formatted 'just right' by the backend, (whatever is outputing the RSS data), it does't work well. It works great if it's formatted nice, not so great, or not at all if it's formatted any other way. In buzztouch v1.5, the RSS screens are super-duper flexible and data-elements in the feed can be mapped to the app. This makes it much more flexible. You may consider getting on the Early Adopter list (see your control panel) so you can start building v1.5 apps. They are waaaaaay more flexible and tons and tons of folks are using the RSS feature.

I was having trouble with the 1.5 RSS Google Calendar and Feedburner feeds so I thought it might have been a 1.5 issue and rebuilt the app on the older version. It seems that the google calendar RSS native feed doesn't validate anywhere, but the Feedburner one does. I did find a google API javascript function that I was able to use in an HTML page for the calendar here: http://gdata-javascript-client.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/samples/calendar/simple_sample/simple_sample.html. The returns just the calendar event title and the date and start time (in 24 hr time) but is better than getting the whole calendar HTML. Is 1.5 stable enough to go live with an app at this point for what I am doing? I would prefer a tabbed layout. By the way, I plan on showing people buzztouch in my class.

I havn't had a change to revisit this again but will soon. Class: Cool. I spend tons of time at CSUMB (Cal State Monterey Bay) and love helping the students get involved in the mobile movement. We've heard of a few schools staring to use our tools and platform as a sort-of syllibus... good stuff. I'll post the RSS findings when I know more.

If you add Google Calendar as an Agenda style it's not bad looking, when posting your description just make sure it's not too wide and the layout looks good, I even posted a link to a website in the calendar and it pulled it up through the browser. The layout is in a scrolling format when using the Agenda style setting.

Do you have a screenshot of this?

http://bethelightradio.com/screenshot.jpg http://bethelightradio.com/screenshot2.jpg http://bethelightradio.com/screenshot3.jpg Use custom html properties Of course fill in your own information for your google map. To see the app with calendar in it - (it's still a work in progress) http://bethelightradio.com/Radio.apk I have a few events setup and will be doing more. This app is for my online radio show so my listeners can tune in and follow.

I went with a calendar from mhsoftware.com. They have a CSS file you can customize and their support has been really helpful. Costs $99 a year us dollars though but it Ed a lot of calendar issues I had. I'm currently using an rss feed of their calendar and they have an image embed feature so you can include an image in the enclosure tag for buzz touch rss to read it. I'm also getting some perl scripts written to merge rss feeds together with a different image icon for the source.

I tried to see some of the links listed here and many are broken :( Is the calendar problem fixed already ? I am trying to add my google calendar (agenda style), with the suggestion made by David (reading the calendar from an external HTML page), but I have to keep zooming in and out, is there a way that the calendar can be all zoomed in ? I tried making the width/height bigger, but it just expands the lines, not the calendar or the font :( HELP!

I am thinking it might just be best to save my calendar as a text or pdf by month and use that. Do you think that might work ok?