Why does Google make the Calendar so complicated??

[stmax]

I am an Android user to the core. Never owned an iOS product. But I have to get this off my chest.

I manage team schedules as a volunteer. These are the steps for an Android phone user to subscribe to a calendar on their phone:

1. Copy the link
2. Navigate to Google calendar on your Browser.(Because there is no way to do this in your app)
3. Select desktop version of mobile view
4. Select add calendar by URL and follow the next few prompts.
5. Open your calendar app on your phone.
6. Press the right combination of menus to select that you want this new calendar to sync (I can never recall how to do this but stumble on it somehow)
7. Press the right combination of menus to see the ability to select that you want to see this new calendar in your app. Done.

Here is how you subscribe to a Google calendar (or other) in iOS.

1. Tap on the link on your phone
2. Click yes to "Do you wish to subscribe" and follow the next two prompts. Done.

Why?? Imagine my struggles with a layperson who just bought their shiny new Android who might've just come from iOS. Can't Android handle this better???

Why is a calendar I created with Google so hard to share with people who may not even know a Google Calendar version exists on desktop?

 

[B. Diddy]

I haven't found that level of difficulty. These are my steps:

1. On the Google Calendar desktop website, I click the Share This Calendar, then select a person's email to share the calendar to.
2. As long as that email address is associated with a Google account, the calendar appears under their own account's calendar list in the Google Calendar app. In their Google Calendar desktop website, it shows up under Other Calendars.

Does that work for you?

 

[stmax]

Hi in this case it is not a direct private share. That is I am not sure how the end user will use the Calendar (ie iCal, outlook, Google etc.) It is in essence a public calendar that I want others to have access to and thus what I am doing is emailing the public link out to them.

The same goes for popular team management apps such as Teamsnap or any other time you need to subscribe to a public calendar.

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