Setting up google calendar with Kontact (or korganiser) using akonadi

It used to be a real pain to try and get google calendar working with kontact/korganiser, however now it is very simple. I have also provided a screenshot walk-through to aide the process.

Just install akonadi-kde-resource-googledata using your package manager or in the terminal with:

sudo apt-get install akonadi-kde-resource-googledata

This will install support of google calendar and google contacts into akonadi. If you’ve not heard of akonadi before, it is a backend that manages communications and protocols. So rather than having developers of separate applications working on the same thing rewriting code that does the same thing they can simply plug into akonadi. Kontact/korganiser can load can load from an akonadi resource:

Walkthrough
(see below for walkthough with screenshots)

• Right Click on calendars and click add resource
• Select akonadi
• Click Manage Calendar Sources
• Click add
• Select Akonadi Google Calendar Resource
• Enter your email and password and select ok
• Your calendar should now sync and appear in korganiser

Screenshot Walkthrough

Right Click on calendars and click add resource

Select akonadi

Click Manage Calendar Sources

Click add

Select Akonadi Google Calendar Resource

Enter your email and password and select ok

Your calendar should now sync and appear in korganiser