Gmail won't allow to respond to calendar invites

[Phazon]

Hi

I've searched for a solution to this problem and cannot find it. As I understand it since a Gmail update at the end of last year this should work. So why isn't it for me?

I have both an iPhone and Oneplus One. On the iPhone in the Gmail app, ANY calendar invite that is received to my Google Calendar shows as an invite and gives yes/no buttons to respond to it.


But in Android in the official Gmail app, if the invite is from Outlook I just get a blank email, with no ICS let alone yes/no options.


From Google Calendar, I get weblinks and it takes me to a browser version of the calendar


I cannot get my head round this, how can it be that the iPhone app by default has simple yes/no/maybe buttons that work in the email without jumping to any other app, but on Google's own phone it seems to have a problem with such a basic feature?

Please help, driving me mad!

Is this the same for everyone else? Is there something I can do to fix this?

Cheers

 

[Phazon]

Bump... Can someone just let me know if this is normal Android gmail behaviour with Calendar invites? All I need is

YES - it's normal
NO - mine works differently

One word answer - hopefully not too much to ask? Of course you can write more if you want!

Cheers

 

[dvhttn]

See the first few notes for this app ... https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cleansoft.invitationplugin&hl=en .... No idea how true that is but this was about the first hit that Google threw up. If that was my problem I'd have read more of the links .....

Enjoy!

Dave

 

[Phazon]

Thanks Dave. Yeah I tried that already but because I'm getting blank emails with no ICS that plugin doesn't work

I've discovered that a calendar app called Cal shows you any pending invites, so when you get an invite in the mail you can go to Cal and easily respond there. Not very seamless, but better than what's happening now.

So Dave, how do invites work for you, like the iOS app? Or do you just not use invites so don't see the problem?

Thanks

 

[dvhttn]

... So Dave, how do invites work for you, like the iOS app? Or do you just not use invites so don't see the problem? ...

Don't use Gmail. Also don't use 'invites' and any job I had that did use them was "before" Android anyway. Sorry .....

Dave