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iCalendar / Invitations support

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type: enhancement
Dominant language
Kotlin
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Description

Having the ability to view and accept (including sending a reply (!)) meetings on mobile would be a pretty great option.

Steps required for this:

  1. ical/vcalendar parsing (copy and paste logic from e.g. GNOME Evolution (https://git.gnome.org/browse/evolution/)
  2. Displaying event information in mail.
  3. Add parsed event to calendar.
  4. Offer to send response to organizer/all attendees.
  5. Create response (yet another vcalendar) and send it, if requested.

Step four should probably not forget the security signing hook (e.g. openkeychain).

Contributor guide

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by breaking the requested work into the five listed areas: iCalendar/vCalendar parsing, event display, calendar integration, attendee responses, and response creation. Review the Android app's mail and calendar-related entry points, then determine how signing hooks such as OpenKeychain fit the response flow. Done requires supporting the requested invitation lifecycle on mobile.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
android, kotlin
Domain
mobile
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
20/100

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