Google Calendar Luke Klinker

Use this command to install Google Calendar:

winget install --id=klinker24.google-calendar-desktop -e

A simple Electron app to display Google Calendar

Google Calendar Desktop is a sleek Electron application designed to provide a seamless desktop experience for Google Calendar. This tool allows users to view their schedules directly from their computer without needing a web browser, ensuring quick and efficient access to their calendar.

Key Features:

Desktop Integration: Runs smoothly as a standalone application on your desktop.
Real-Time Sync: Keeps your calendar up-to-date with the latest events and updates in real-time.
Multi-Account Support: Manages multiple Google accounts and calendars, providing comprehensive overview capabilities.
Push Notifications: Alerts users of upcoming events directly on their desktop, ensuring they never miss an important date.

Audience & Benefit: Ideal for professionals, students, and anyone managing a busy schedule who prefer having direct access to their calendar on their desktop. This application offers the convenience of staying organized and informed without needing to open a browser, enhancing productivity and efficiency.

Google Calendar - Desktop

Having my calendar in the dock helps remind me to check it. This is just a simple web wrapper for Google Calendar.

Build Instructions

Install Electron and project dependencies:

$ npm install -g electron
$ yarn install

Run the app:

$ yarn start

The app will only run if you have shut down any other instances. If you use npm start while another instance is running, it will simply display the window of that old instance, instead of starting the app.

Packaging Information

To package the apps for each platform:

$ yarn
$ yarn run build-mac
$ yarn run build-linux
$ yarn run build-windows

Notes on Building for Mac

With MacOS Catalina (10.14.5), Apple requires DMG files to be notarized by the distributer. The files that I distribute are all signed and notarized by me.

If you are looking to develop the app yourself, you can debug and run the app through yarn start without issue. However, if you want to make a signed executable (yarn build-mac), you will need to set up your Apple ID and password for the notarization process.

To do this, you will first need a valid Apple developer account. You can sign up at https://developer.apple.com. You will need to use Xcode to export your new developer signing information and add it to your keychain.

You will then need to generate an app-specific password for that Apple ID. This is not the same as the password that you use to sign in to your developer account. You can create this app-specific password, here: https://appleid.apple.com

After completing those two steps, create a .env file in the root of this project. It should look something like:

APPLEID=test@someemail.com
APPLEIDPASS=xxxx-tttt-vvvv-aaaa

License

Copyright 2018 Luke Klinker

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.