Question

I want to know if it is possible to create a new calendar for your iphone through an application. I know you can set up event with an app, but can I make another calendar through the app to place all the events too.

EDIT:

IF it is not possible what would be the best work around, make a calendar and event store, and save that information with nscoding? Then retrieve afterwards?

If there is a possibilty to create a new calendar to integrate with the existing calendars, that is what I want to do.

Answer 1

This is how I have done this:

-(NSString*)createCal:(NSString*)myCalId;{
// Instantiate eventstore object
   EKEventStore *store = [[EKEventStore alloc] init];

   EKSource *localSource = nil;
   for (EKSource *source in store.sources)
       if (source.sourceType == EKSourceTypeLocal){
           localSource = source;
            break;
       }

//this is you creating your calendar
EKCalendar *cal;
    cal = [EKCalendar calendarWithEventStore:store];
    cal.title = @"Name of calendar";
    cal.source = localSource;
    [store saveCalendar:cal commit:YES error:nil];
    NSLog(@"cal id = %@", cal.calendarIdentifier);
return cal.calendarIdentifier;}

You will need to import <EventKit/EventKit.h>
This is powerful so you need to be careful and do a lot of verifications for example if the calendar already exist, and so on. Hope this helps.