I currently have three devices that helps me with my business’ productivity and management: A Macbook, an iPad and an Android phone. These machines have their own use and purpose. If you are like me, perhaps your primary concern would also be how to sync the calendars of these three devices.

On this post, I will share you how to easily sync your Gcal (Google Calendar) and iCal so it is important that you have a Gmail account.

For Android:

Android is developed by Google so there won’t be so much trouble setting it up. You just have to sign in to your Google account on your mobile device, and just allow it to sync everything to your phone. (i.e. Contacts, Email and Calendar)

Getting Your Gcal’s Calendar ID:

Before continuing to the remaining two devices, it is important to get the address first of the calendars that you wish to sync:

Step 1: Log in to your Gmail account and go to Calendars.

Step 2: Go to Calendar Settings and click on Calendars.

Step 3: Choose which calendar you wish to add on your device, then scroll down to “Calendar Address:”

Step 4: Copy your Calendar ID, it looks like this 123jb38ysfh32hjdfn89@group.calendar.google.com (Copy the whole thing including the group.calendar.google.com)

For iPad:

With your Calendar ID copied, we are now ready to put it on the iPad.

Step 1: Go to Settings and choose Mail, Contacts, Calendars.

Step 2: Add Account… then choose other

Step 3: Add CalDAV Account then on Server field put this on: https://www.google.com/calendar/dav/[PASTE YOUR CALENDAR ID]/user

Step 4: Fill in your Gmail username and password. Finally, give your calendar a Description.

You can repeat this step to add more calendars.

**NOTE** I do not have an iPhone or an iPod Touch. Though I ‘m pretty confident that these will also work on those devices, I still cannot vouch for it since I haven’t tried it yet.

For Mac:

This would be almost just like iPad’s.

Step 1: Go to iCal and then Preferences.

Step 2: Proceed to Accounts tab and then click the Plus (+) sign to add new calendar.

Step 3: Choose CalDAV as the Account type.

Step 4: Fill in your Gmail user name and password on the field.

Step 5: On the Server address, again, paste this: https://www.google.com/calendar/dav/[PASTE YOUR CALENDAR ID]/user ; then hit Create.

Repeat to add more calendars.

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Hope this can be a lot of help with regards to your productivity. If you encountered any problem, you may DM or @ me on Twitter.

See Ya!

Reference: http://macapper.com/