Hi Mark

hello, Micalet!

how can I help you today?

I hope so

I have a problem with the google calendar api v3

you're welcome to ask

but the odds of my being able to help you on that is very slim

as not only have I never used that API...

...but I have never used any Google API (outside of a few tied into the Play Services framework)

the problem is that I'm not a professional java developer

and there are some things that I can't understand

I asked this in stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27087574/how...

can you help me with this?

I don't know how can I parse the new protocol

my first question is: why aren't you using a client library for this API?

such as https://developers.google.com/api-client-librar...

if you really want to use the REST API directly, you're welcome to do so, but you'll apparently need to use a JSON parser

as I told you, I'm not a developer. When I was developing my app, I found a tutorial that match with my needs and I used it

um, well, that's cool and all, but then when you run into problems (v2 vs. v3 API), you would need to go back to however you found the tutorial and add "v3" to your search to try to find something else that you can grok

well, I'll try with it

also bear in mind that Android itself exposes calendars that users have set up in the Calendar app

that wouldn't help you parse a public feed, unless the user added it to their Calendar app, AFAIK, but it might be relevant depending upon the overarching app that you're trying to write

the calendar I'm trying to get the events info is a public calendar

so that the calendar provider is not a good solution for me

then I'd go with the Calendar API client library I linked to earlier

there's even an Android-specific sample for it: http://samples.google-api-java-client.googlecod...

I'll try to follow the sample to see if I find a solution to my problem

if you have other questions, go right ahead -- it's a quiet chat room tonight

Not now thank you. I'm dealing whith the sample

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have a pleasant day!

good night