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Little free and open source app for Android that intercepts the VIEW intent for text/calendar files and allows to add it to the calendar

ICSImport

ICSImport is a small free and open source app for Android that intercepts the VIEW intent for text/calendar files and allows to add it to the calendar. At the moment it does not need any calendar-related permissions because it acts as a bridge. The original .ics file is parsed and the event is added using the native calendar application. This way you are free to change the event details before saving.

Building

The project should build as-is. Be aware that you need to use ant. The libraries contained in this project are taken from the ical4j project.

TODO

The following features have been tested and reported working but more feedback is welcome:

  • ICS files containing multiple events (tested with 15 events in the same file. Be aware that you need to go back after each event insertion). This feature was added in version 1.1

At the moment the project needs testing. A lot of testing! Especially this aspects are currently untested:

  • Time Zone
  • Full-day events
  • ...