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Meet: Fast way to schedule a one-to-one on the go

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Really clever. 1Password should make a custom keyboard so I don't need to leave apps (and navigate to the 1Password app) to fill out passwords.

They have a share sheet extension. Click the thing you use to email a webpage, click the 1Password button, log in, click the log in that's detected to match the URL, autofills and you can hit submit.

Password fields can't use custom keyboards because of fear of logging that entry. The share sheet extension works great though for 1Password, especially when combined with TouchID.

If you're using iOS i'm pretty sure that custom keyboards aren't allowed to access the password fields?

Even if that's true, it may be such a good idea that they may want to consider changing it.

the android beta has this as well

Using the keyboard is super creative

Indeed, very clever! It seems like you could write an entire mini-app as a custom keyboard. What sort of limitations are there to what you can do with this? What's Apple's policy towards custom keyboards?

This does not seem like the intended use-case for custom keyboards.

I hope Apple won't get too upset.

Why do you think so? I mean this as a serious question because that's not apparent to me.

If a numeric keyboard makes it easier to enter numbers, and a Japanese keyboard makes it easier to enter Japanese, why shouldn't an appointment keyboard make it easier to enter an appointment time?

I could totally see Apple saying "The custom keyboard is meant for languages and special characters/symbols, not to be used by an app in this fashion"

Wouldn't be the worserejection-reason they've given. You might even find an app that does the same thing already on the AppStore, but that won't stop them from rejecting you because that's just how they roll.

http://www.techradar.com/us/news/computing/apple/20-classic-...

http://matt.coneybeare.me/stupid-apple-rejection-of-the-day/

Would someone describe how the keyboard is used?

They are leveraging the custom keyboard feature in iOS 8 and build a keyboard around it. It's actually really clever. After choosing times you are available, location, etc., it returns a link. Imagine this keyboard when you are texting, imagine it when you are composing an email. You don't have to jump between two apps to send a calendar invite. It simply works anywhere.

Ohh! Thank you. :)

I was just about to delete sunrise from my phone because it seems to have a lot of trouble noticing when events have changed or been deleted, and it's actually caused me once or twice to re-arrange my home life around phantom meetings that had been canceled.

Sounds like a connection problem, it's happened me me once or twice - I'd recommend changing the update time

They have found a way to innovate something (scheduling meetings) that wasn't seeing innovations for sooo long.

It's incredible and I can't tell how much marvel it gives once you see the video and understand the semplicity.

That's the core point of the web and the apps in general: making things simplier. They just did it in a marvelous way.

Great job.

This looks pretty awesome and I'm going to try it out.

Feedback: might want to include iOS App Store and Google Play Store links directly in the blog post because 1) I wouldn't have had to open a new tab to search for your app manually, and 2) you have an idea of how many referrals you got through this post.

They're in the bottom footer of the blog.

Ah, I see them now. I had ctrl+f'ed for 'install' and few other terms before giving up.

This looks awesome, but I have to apparently use Sunrise to use it. Anyone using Sunrise and have any information? The homepage has 0 info, nothing. I'm not keen on sharing my google account with it until I learn more.

Sunrise is great. I've used it for almost a year now and it's my favorite calendar app.

Sunrise is one of the most popular calendar apps, and it was recently purchased by Microsoft. I use it, and it's the best calendar app I've found so far on iOS.

>> "I have to apparently use Sunrise to use it."

Meet seems to be part of the Sunrise app. However you can receive and respond to invites without using Sunrise. You can get a better overview of the app here [1] than on the homepage.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=am.sunrise.and...

P.S. I would recommend using it :) It's a fantastic calendar app.

Really cool way to think out side of the box. The keyboard idea is sweet.

Look great! I wanted to see more on the calendar it self, but I have not found the demo link on the main page. IMO, you should add a presentation of your calendar without requiring to create an account.

https://calendar.sunrise.am/

(and also: add a link from your blog to your product)

Hadn't heard of sunrise before seeing this; Tried it out and seems great! Shame there's no exchange calendars on web/os x though.

Sunrise devs, if you're out there, is there a roadmap for this?

hey! we're working on support for office 365 on desktop but no plans for support exchange on promise from our desktop app (sorry if that's confusing)

happy to chat more at support@sunrise.am

pierre - ceo @ sunrise

What makes it more amazing is that MS bought them a short time back. They've pushed out a couple of updates since, but still no exchange support.

I love it! My only feature request (semi jokingly), integration with my mail client so I can swipe from the lock screen to send a polite "no thanks" for all those pesky sales emails.

I'd use this if Sunrise weren't butt slow on my iPhone...

What iPhone do you use?

iPhone 5

This is super cool. I do account services and doing the whole back and forth dance of scheduling a meeting takes up way too much time.

Frustrating to me that there's no CalDav support.

Okay that's pretty smart. Guess I'll have to step it up, if I want to be snarky about this project.

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