Schedule Sharing

[Bad-Science]

Many students ask us about sharing and exporting their schedules, even now that we support ICS exporting and sharing links. We need to add more sharing options, and refine the UI because users often don't understand how the existing features work.

There should be one unified share button, similar to how you would see on a mobile app or site, that will expand or drop down with a list of sharing options.

We should aim to support the following:

• Download Image
• Download iCal
• Copy Sharing URL
• Share to Facebook

I think share to Facebook will really be a hit, as many of our users take screenshots of their schedules and upload them to Facebook. I'm not sure if we should share the schedule URL or an image to Facebook, though. Either way the preview must show the schedule itself. Users will not need to log in to Facebook to share (see: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/reference/share-dialog)

We should also look into directly importing to google calendar.

[Bad-Science]

Share to Facebook should be a separate issue

[Bad-Science]

Some implementation details on this:

• The export functionality (Image and iCal sharing) should be handled by services. Consider creating an image download service, and an iCal generator service, each of which have the schedule or selection service as a dependency. These could also be combined into a single export service with multiple functions.

• The sharing URL feature is a little different, and less important right now. Implement Image and iCal sharing, and a separate issue can be made for URL sharing.