Sync Contacts & Calendar without Gapps

🔄 Offline Backup:
➖The fastest, easiest and most privacy-friendly way is to just backup your vcf and restore it on each wipe. Not much for convenience, but we wouldn't be here if that bothered us, would we? :)
--Go to contacts app
--For Backup, Options > Import/Export > 'Export to .vcf file'
--The .vcf file will be saved in the root of your storage. Keep it secure. Or I'll come for it.
--For Restore, Options > Import/Export > 'Import from .vcf file'
➖To retieve your contacts directly from your Google account in a vcf file:
--Go to https://contacts.google.com/ and login
--Use sidebar > Export > select 'Export as VCard' > Export

🔄 Google's sync adapters:
➖Google uses some proprietary APKs that sync your Contacts and Calendar, namely:
--com.google.android.backuptransport
--com.google.android.syncadapters.contacts
--com.google.android.syncadapters.calendar
➖You can get them from several sources:
--The latest OpenGapps 'Pico' package for your device
--Several installers like MinMicrog Standard or NanoDroid
➖These APKs are dependant on your android version, so make sure to get the correct ones
➖Just install, give them perms, and enable your account sync from system settings. They should start doing their job

🔄 With CardDAV:
➖You should be able to sync contacts using the open-source CardDAV client DAVdroid (available on F-Droid or Play)
➖First of all, go to https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps
With your account and enable the setting
➖When logging in with DAVDroid, Use "Login with URL and user name"
--Base URL:
https://www.google.com/calendar/dav/your_gmail_id@gmail.com/events
--User name:
your_gmail_id@gmail.com
--Password: Your Google account password
➖This will sync your contacts and calendar with the default settings. Explaining DAVDroid configurations might take another separate post, or a few.
➖The URL might change over time.

🔄 Other alternatives:
You could setup some locally hosted alternatives to sync your contacts like Nextcloud or Syncthing. In this case, good luck, and you can always get help in the group if you get stuck.

#sync #contacts #calendar #guide

Guide by @nogoolag
Thank you, a lot of people on the group, on github and Shadow53 for his guide.

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Sweet QuaDreams: A First Look at Spyware Vendor QuaDream’s Exploits, Victims, and Customers - The Citizen Lab – 2023

Based on an analysis of samples shared with us by Microsoft Threat Intelligence, we developed indicators that enabled us to identify at least five civil society victims of QuaDream’s spyware and exploits in North America, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. Victims include journalists, political opposition figures, and an NGO worker. We are not naming the victims at this time.
We also identify traces of a suspected iOS 14 zero-click exploit used to deploy QuaDream’s spyware.

The exploit was deployed as a zero-day against iOS versions 14.4 and 14.4.2, and possibly other versions. The suspected exploit, which we call ENDOFDAYS, appears to make use of invisible iCloud calendar invitations sent from the spyware’s operator to victims.

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