/tags/android/ Recent content in Android on Chris Irwin Hugo -- 0.147.7 en-us Sun, 17 Jan 2016 02:57:23 +0000 /posts/my_failed_experiment_with_caldav/ Sun, 17 Jan 2016 02:57:23 +0000 /posts/my_failed_experiment_with_caldav/ <p>In an ongoing quest to attempt to lessen my Google dependancy, I decided to self-host my Calendar and Contacts using <a href="http://baikal-server.com/">Baïkal</a>.</p> <p>Installing and configuring Baïkal is sufficiently documented elsewhere. This post is a 9somewhat short) account of why I&rsquo;m giving up on self-hosted contacts and calendars.</p> <h1 id="google">Google</h1> <p>The problems can be summed up into these bullet points:</p> <ul> <li>It is assumed (and practically required) to use Google Play Store</li> <li>Google Play Store requires a Google Account</li> <li>Google Account means you have Mail, Calendar, and Contacts</li> </ul> <p>Simply adding your google account into your phone causes Mail, Calendar and Contacts to sync. Mail you can disable, and use an alternate client, as that data is housed internally to the gmail app, and not exposed system wide for other apps to use.</p>