Connect to jtx Board's provider

[hashblen]

I am using Fossify Calendar. On there, tasks are not synced using DAVx5, because they would need a provider a Android does not have one. And having a solution where one can see tasks and all events in the same calendar, is really convenient. I was thinking of trying to add support for tasks sync, and it seems to also be a popular request.

From the DAVx5 documentation, I saw this nice graph

It seems like aCalendar+ (paid closed source calendar) integrates tasks using the OpenTasks-based provider in the tasks.org app. I however do not use tasks.org at the moment, since jtx Board is much more complete (VJournal are great).
So a "simple" implementation would be to show and save tasks using jtx Board's provider (optionally also show journals which have dates), and probably redirect to jtx Board's UI for in depth tasks editing.

What do you think? Would it be a good idea to expose jtx Board's content provider to external apps like for my suggested use-case, or if it is already possible give a few tips on how to do that?

[patrickunterwegs]

Hi @hashblen ,
jtx Board already exposes the content provider to external apps. So this is basically possible, but needs to be implemented in aCalendar+.
The query itself for basic attributes isn't complex. Here's an example in a test:

jtxBoard/app/src/androidTest/java/at/techbee/jtx/SyncContentProviderTest.kt

Line 141 in f2dc727

mContentResolver?.query(newICalObject!!, arrayOf(JtxContract.JtxICalObject.ID, JtxContract.JtxICalObject.SUMMARY, JtxContract.JtxICalObject.DESCRIPTION), "${JtxContract.JtxICalObject.SUMMARY} = ?", arrayOf("note2delete"), null).use {

The question is just if somebody wants to take the data and map it to some domain object in aCalendar+ and show it there.