How To Embed a Google Calendar Display In App Inventor 2

[Lauren]

Hi! I am looking to embed and display a Google Calendar in my app.  I want users to be able to add events to the calendar inside of my app.  The audience would be students(on their own accs), and I want it to be possible for their calendar to be shown or shared automatically with their parents accs in my app.  So far I have only found help on creating events in the app and transferring it to the google calendar app.

[Taifun]

this tutorial might help https://groups.google.com/d/msg/app-inventor-developers-library/x4GBw8wVI0I/U5gU_TxwsUoJ

 I want it to be possible for their calendar to be shown or shared automatically with their parents accs in my app.

it seems to be, up to now nobody tried this in App Inventor... you might want to do some experiments yourself...

Taifun

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Trying to push the limits of App Inventor! Snippets, Tutorials and Extensions from Pura Vida Apps by Taifun. 

[Tim Carter]

Given that "some kind" of authentication will be necessary, it may be worth having a look at the mobile browser version of google calendar. You would need to set this up in a webviewer

url: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/gp

url for the month view: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/gp#~calendar:view=m

or just use the standard calendar view: https://www.google.com/calendar/render

( you could provide buttons to give users the choice, or they can choose as Google throws up an option to go mobile.

Alternately, also avoiding the api (so to speak) you could show a calendar (See calendar settings > Sharing) and use buttons to create events, sending to a google form, which could then populate the calendar, however this could get messy!

All the above might depend on the size of the device for sensible calendar viewing, looks good on a 7 inch tablet!