Arthur moved on with programming and testing. Now we uploaded the first packages, which now contain the basic calendar and contacts synchronisation. The plugins already are able to synchronize our personal data.
You can find the packages on the download pages of the Kolab Sync for Outlook und Kolab Sync for Android projects.
Please use the issue trackers there for feedback.
We are proud to announce the first developer preview for Kolab sync clients for both Android and Outlook. Both are licensed under the GPLv3.
Using this software you will be able synchronize your contacts and calendar to any IMAP folder. Every item is saved in a separate Email using the Kolab Storage Format. This allows for interoperability with other Kolab Clients.
Please join us on the Google code projects for the Android and the Outlook connectors.
Since there are still quite a few rough edges, this is only a developer preview to publish the already done work. Read on for a more detailed status of the development so far.
After installing the Android 1.5r3 SDK and Eclipse 3.4 with the matching ADT plugin, I soon encountered this error message:
[2009-10-16 15:02:09 - ddms]Failed to reopen debug port for Selected Client to: 8700 [2009-10-16 15:02:09 - ddms]Address family not supported by protocol family: bind java.net.SocketException: Address family not supported by protocol family: bind at sun.nio.ch.Net.bind(Native Method) at sun.nio.ch.ServerSocketChannelImpl.bind(Unknown Source) at sun.nio.ch.ServerSocketAdaptor.bind(Unknown Source) at sun.nio.ch.ServerSocketAdaptor.bind(Unknown Source) at com.android.ddmlib.MonitorThread.reopenDebugSelectedPort(Unknown Source) at com.android.ddmlib.MonitorThread.run(Unknown Source) [2009-10-16 16:29:40 - ddms]Can't bind to local 8600 for debugger [2009-10-16 16:30:14 - ddms]Can't bind to local 8601 for debugger [2009-10-16 16:30:14 - ddms]Can't bind to local 8602 for debugger [2009-10-16 16:30:15 - ddms]Can't bind to local 8603 for debugger [2009-10-16 16:30:25 - ddms]Can't bind to local 8602 for debugger [2009-10-16 16:30:25 - ddms]Can't bind to local 8606 for debugger [2009-10-16 16:30:25 - ddms]Can't bind to local 8607 for debugger [2009-10-16 16:30:25 - ddms]Can't bind to local 8610 for debugger
As it turns out, the debugger tries to connect to “localhost” which is resolved by Windows Vista via the Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file, which contains the IPV6 address “::1″. Since Android’s IPv6 support is still under development, none of the development tools can cope with it, resulting in above error messages.
Substituting the IPv4 127.0.0.1 as localhost address made it work fine.
