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I don't know of 3rd party calendar apps - the flow I've always used has been
- 3rd party caldav syncing tool, to sync remote calendar with a local one.
- Just using the stock calendar app to view that calendar.
With that in mind, the two apps that I've used are CalDAV-Sync and DAVx^(5). Neither is free, but have both always been super reliable for me syncing with both radicale and owncloud|nextcloud backends. Currently using DAVx^(5) just because it also bundles in contact and task syncing, and I like having fewer things running on my phone.
Take a look at CalDAV-Sync: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.dmfs.caldav.lib
This is not a recommendation, this app has issues but it may work for you in your case. Or it may not. :)
I think that's up to TickTick? Calendar storage syncs with Google Calendar more often than that.
You can look into setting up your own calendars using something like CalDav-sync, which can sync with a wide variety of services that aren't Google (the developer also has apps that can sync with iCalendar, and apps that can sync contacts).
Using that app you can sync calendar and contact storage with those external calendars and contacts, and even self-host them. But the contacts/calendar apps you use need to be able to show them.
In the description for TickTick I see that it claims to be able to integrate with more than just Google Calendar so maybe you can find a type of calendar that works.
I use FastMail to de-Google myself and sync it to my Android phone's calendar using (CalDAV-Sync)[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.dmfs.caldav.lib].
I think FastMail is used by a lot of people that do not want to use Google for everything.
Also I would love it to look more like the linked watch faces, so not just the small border of a circle but more of a (flat) pie chartish kinda look.
I use CalDAV-Sync on my smartphone and Bynari WebDAV Collaborator with outlook. Both tools work ok, but not flawless.
I am slowly moving away from Microsoft and Google.
So I started using Thunderbird for contacts, calendar and also to fetch my email from my domain hosting.
I set Thunderbird to use an Owncloud service. €5 per year gets plenty of space. I chose Open IT Store basically at random.
On Android you set up CalDav and CardDav and point them at the same place on Owncloud. Then I use Simple Contacts and Simple Calendar to see what I need to see.
I'll admit, it was all a little fiddly to set up, but there are tutorials out there to help get it together. Most of the work on the phone needs to be done under Setting/ Account. You might also see duplicate contacts. Look for Filter on Simple Calendar.
I eventually upgraded to a much bigger Owncloud account, and got rid of Dropbox. There is a very decent Android app for it as well.
Looks like it's using an xml markup:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <note version="1" xmlns:link="http://projects.gnome.org/bijiben/link" xmlns:size="http://projects.gnome.org/bijiben/size" xmlns="http://projects.gnome.org/bijiben"> <title>This is the first line in a sample note</title> <text xml:space="preserve"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><body contenteditable="true" id="editable">This is the first line in a sample note<div>This is the second line</div><div>this is the third line</div></body></html></text> <last-change-date>2015-10-20T22:45:58Z</last-change-date> <last-metadata-change-date>2015-10-20T22:45:58Z</last-metadata-change-date> <create-date>2015-10-20T22:45:33Z</create-date> <cursor-position>0</cursor-position> <selection-bound-position>0</selection-bound-position> <width>0</width> <height>0</height> <x>0</x> <y>0</y> <color>rgb(239,242,209)</color> <tags/> <open-on-startup>False</open-on-startup> </note>
I've settled on using todoman + Baïkal for CLI-based todo management, and adding CalDAV-Sync + OpenTasks on Android.
I was a much bigger fan of task warrior. But I haven't gotten around to tackling taskd yet, while I already installed Baïkal for Calendar/Contacts.
There are a number of good alternatives listed here already, but thought I'd share this one.
I went through the process of switching from Gmail in early 2019, and eventually settled on Fastmail on their Standard plan.
Grab a drink, here's some information:
- No ads or tracking.
- Email, calendar, contacts, notes, and file storage (size varies with plan).
- Two-factor authentication via an app, e.g. Authy.
- App-specific passwords, so you're not using your login credentials everywhere. They can be monitored and removed via the web interface.
- Great protocol support: SSL/TLS, IMAP, Push-IMAP, JMAP, SMTP, POP, LDAP, FTP, FTPS, iCal/ICS, CalDAV, CardDAV, WebDav, etc.
- Migration of my 10+ years of Gmail messages, calendar history and contacts was seamless. I moved from a GSuite (legacy GApps for Your Domain) account with a domain, rather than standard Gmail.
- Wide range of domains (currently 117) to choose from, so your email doesn't have to be
@fastmail.com. You can also set up a number of aliases that can use the same or a different domain choice. - Full support for and unlimited use of
username+<text>@domainemail format and supports<text>@username.domainfor sites and email servers that were built without reading the SMTP RFCs. - The web interface is clean, customisable and effective. If you've used any webmail system in recent years it'll be familiar to you.
- Their own application is fantastic, on both Android and iOS. Sadly it doesn't currently come with Android widgets, so next point...
- You can use CalDAV-Sync and CardDAV-Sync to sync to your preferred calendar and contacts applications on your Android phone, allowing full calendar widget and phone contacts integration.
- The calendars support iCal, importing and sharing of calendars. But only calendars local to your account provide reminders. So if you subscribe to, say, the Six Nations or Tour de France TV schedule calendars and want to be notified when it's is about to start, it won't alert you.
- They're based in Australia which, while they have a spotty record on encryption, means it's outside the US.
- The spam false-positive/-negative hits are very low for me, and can be adjusted and customised to suit your needs.
- While it doesn't have encrypted email inbuilt, there's nothing stopping you using a PGP, GPG or S/MIME browser plugin, or an email client that supports it. Unless you're doing politically-sensitive work (reporter, humanitarian aid, activism, etc), you'll probably use it far less than you think you will.
- Support are responsive to issues and are receptive to feature requests. There's not much feedback on the latter once submitted, but that's pretty normal.
- Features and updates are pretty regular, so they do a decent job of keeping you informed.
- Plans are here: https://www.fastmail.com/pricing/ All plans cost money, but there's a 30 day free trial. They also charge any mandatory taxes local to you (for me in the UK it's VAT).
I have no connection with them, beyond being a customer.
tl;dr: If you'd told me 5+ years ago that I'd soon be voluntarily paying for email I'd have laughed in your face. Now I'm more than happy paying US$60+VAT per year and advocate for doing so.
CalDAV-Sync, its like $3, and works great.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.dmfs.caldav.lib&hl=en
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.dmfs.caldav.lib
Same guy who created opentasks. Works out of the box with his caldav-adapter, but not with Davdroid...
I use this instead.
I ran into this problem too only some things would sync, I already owned cal-davsync so used that with no problems
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.dmfs.caldav.lib&hl=en_GB
FYI, RFC4791 and RFC5545 both codify "to-dos" (VTODO) as a standard object type in the CalDAV and iCalendar standards. It's used by several products on multiple platforms (though Google sadly omits support in its own API). I use Evolution under Ubuntu, and CalDAV-Sync and OpenTasks on Android (the latter app has java source code available). Both talk to Darwin CalendarServer on a Debian box.