Repair association with platform calendar

[mtotschnig]

User reported that after restoring a backup made by Titanium after wiping the device, plans are linked to the wrong events in the calendar.
We could provide a mechanism for repairing this situation in the future, if we would store a cached representation of the event in our database. Our own backup functionality already does this.
The problem is that events can be edited with a calendar app, and I am not sure if we are able to get notified about such changes.

[d-faure]

IMHO, The calendar should remain a pure event-triggering sink, and therefore you should be able to purge and/or rebuild from scratch all MyExpenses related planification stuff.

[dutch602]

The My Expenses app would be perfect if there was a way to remove its dependence from using an external source like Google Calendar when creating templates and plans. Every time I upgrade my mobile phone to a new one I must spend an hour recreating this after successfully syncing everything else. It's very frustrating.

All the plans are currently retained when performing a sync/backup import in a new mobile phone, but none of the associated Google Calendar events are carried over; thereby, requiring me to recreate all of them manually.

[mtotschnig]

@dutch602 As mentioned here (#441 (comment)), the plans depend on a source that is external only in the sense that it is a component of the Android OS, it does not depend on a cloud backed calendar like Google's. The calendar used by My Expenses is local. Please try to restore data via a backup, plans should be carried over.

[dutch602]

I think I've tried every restore option available and I've always run into this problem where I must recreate all of my templates/plans since their Google calendar associations do not carry over onto a new phone.

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