Interest : What if you have an Android OS and an iOS device ? - How to sync calendars from one device to another ?

Smartphones nowadays are excellent personal assistant in keeping information as well as noting down future event in your calendar for future reference. The question is what happen if you have multiple devices . Are you going to enter all your information one by one ? I stumble upon this question last night and was figuring out what to do.

For my case, it is not as simple as multiple device, but two device with different OS, namely my Android phone and my iPad. So, my question was this, how am I going to sync the calendar on both device so that I wouldn't have to enter the same event twice on different device ? I am also keen in using iPad for personal management especially in using calendar in viewing my future event because the calendar app is simply better that the one on the android phone. However, it would be very cocky if I take out my iPad every time in class to note down something in its calendar. Other students may think I am showing it off, something I wouldn't want it to happen. In the end, I still have to key in the event using my Android phone. Now, the issues lies on getting this information from my Android phone to my iPad without having me to do the typing and keying in again. I need something which I can sync it from my Android phone to my iPad and I found it. It is nothing special nor something revolutionary.

My problem can be solved by using calendar sync by Gmail. Of course, you would need a Gmail account. If you are an Android user, I assume you should have one already as you need it to log into your Market app. Without it, you simply can't log in. In order for this to work, you need to set both device using the same Gmail address. First, I will tell you what you should do for android phone. Nothing much actually if you have already set up your Google Gmail account in your phone. What you need to do is to enable Gmail calendar in the calendar app. Then, by hitting the menu button, you should see the settings tab, go into it. From there onwards, you will see a list of settings you can play with. The first one should be "Calendars", go into it and tick your Gmail account. The problem with Google phone is that it won't sync for latest information once you go into the calendar app (given you had turn off the background sync to save data ^^). Hence, to sync the calendar maunally once you are in the calendar app, go to setting (pressing menu)>calendar sync>click the Gmail account. To set up the Gmail calendar in iOS device, you will need to go into settings>mail, contacts, calendars>add account(from accounts tab)>Gmail>fill in information>turn on calendars sync . For iOS, you don't have to worry about syncing as it will sync if there is a connection to the internet once you enter the calendar app, sweet.

By doing this, both device should have similar events in their own respective calendar. I hope this article helps those in needs.