5.5 Tutorial: Calendar as a Widget on the Phone (with Synchronization)

✔️ At Edumaps, three types of calendars are available:
1. User Calendar - each user has their own calendar
2. Box Calendar - each box has its own calendar
3. Rental System with Calendar - a box receives a calendar for reservations
Each calendar can be integrated into external applications via an iCalendar link. See the tutorial “Embedding in external calendars like Apple and Google” for more information.
With a calendar widget, you can bring all of the school's important dates to every mobile phone of your teachers and students.
⚠️ If you have already integrated your Edumaps calendar into your Apple or Google calendar, you can directly use the calendar widget there.

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Our goal is to create a widget on the mobile background that shows us all the events of a calendar.
With it, you always have all important events literally in your pocket at a glance.
Widget on the home screen of the mobile phone
Below we will show you the necessary steps for this.
⚙ goal

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First, open the desired calendar on your phone.
Calendar on phone
Below the calendar on the right, you will find a link "iCalendar Link". Click on it, and a dialog with this link will open:
iCalendar link to copy
Copy the link.
⚙ icalendar

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When you now open the app, all imported events from the Edumaps calendar will be displayed to you:
Display all events
You can choose different views like day, week, month, and list in the app.
⚙ display

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Set a calendar widget on your home screen now to always see the current events of the calendar.
1. Press and hold the home screen with one finger until the selection “Wallpaper | Widget | Transitions | Home screen settings” appears.
Option: Add widget
2. Click on “Widgets”.
3. Find “OneCalendar” and click on it.
OneCalendar
4. OneCalendar has three widgets to choose from:
Three widgets from OneCalendar
Choose “Agenda” to get a widget with a list view of all events.
Choose “Month” to get a calendar widget that can be scrolled month by month.
Result:
Active Widget on Homescreen
⚙ widget

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To ensure the app regularly displays the current events from the Edumaps calendar, you need to enable synchronization.
To do this, go to the menu and select "Options":
Selection "Options"
Then select "Synchronization":
Selection "Synchronization"
Click on "Webcal automatic synchronization":
"Webcal automatic synchronization"
Choose, for example, "2 hours" or "4 hours" as the synchronization interval:
Selection of synchronization interval
Now the app synchronizes with the Edumaps calendar every 2 hours.
⚙ synchronization