Add missing task properties

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@ccoenen AndroidEvent should be modified, too, because otherwise, DAVx⁵ would lose functionality: Now, CATEGORIES are saved in Event.unknownProperties, which are saved to the Android DB by AndroidEvent. So, DAVx⁵ saves and restores CATEGORIES at the moment as “unknown properties” without knowing anything about what CATEGORIES is and does.

As soon as Event understands CATEGORIES, they’re not being put to Event.unknownProperties anymore, so AndroidEvent doesn’t save/restore CATEGORIES anymore. The same applies to Task and AndroidTask.

So, if you could create a merge request for ical4android (soon: ical4x⁷), I’d merge it to a separate branch so that CATEGORIES can be implemented in AndroidEvent/AndroidTask, too before merging it to master.

I passed this on. Thanks for looking at this so quickly!

Another person (c64bob on GitHub) took this up again. He posted a merge request Are these two things combined what you had in mind @rfc2822 ?

@ccoenen Hello, I have merged it to https://gitlab.com/bitfireAT/ical4android/tree/support-categories. But it’s essentially the same as the first MR and only the first of the two things I have mentioned.

Implemented with https://gitlab.com/bitfireAT/ical4android/commit/18585c9db4cc6d62ec9f26b189c4efd9c30ad67c. Anyone willing to test DAVx⁵ with the changes? Can send APK, or beta test in Google Play.

I’d be willing to give it a try, but I am not sure if I have an app that would actually display something useful?

@ccoenen said in Add missing task properties:

I’d be willing to give it a try, but I am not sure if I have an app that would actually display something useful?

It would only retain CATEGORIES, although you can’t see/edit them in OpenTasks. But you can, for instance,

1. create a task in Nextcloud Tasks (or another client that supports CATEGORIES)
2. sync it with DAVx⁵
3. edit the task with OpenTasks (for instance, the summary)
4. sync it to the server again
5. and it will still have the same CATEGORIES (in previous versions, CATEGORIES were lost).

@rfc2822 will do! Right now I’m on DAVx5 from F-Droid (2.5.4.1-ose), how Do I get a prerelease-version?

@rfc2822 I’m still up for testing if you need me. I just need an apk.

Available in 2.5.5, which has already been released and should appear in F-Droid as soon as they have compiled it.