Question

I would like to insert events in my app, so they can be viewed in iPhone Calendar.app. But since I don’t want to mix the user events with those from my app, I wanted to create a EKCalendar like “MyApp Events”

Is this possible ? How would you filter your events otherwise ?

Thanks !

Answer 1

It is absolutely possible to create your own calendar – the catch is that you need iOS 5:

EKEventStore* eventStore = [[EKEventStore alloc] init];
NSString* calendarName = @"My Cal";
EKCalendar* calendar;

// Get the calendar source
EKSource* localSource;
for (EKSource* source in eventStore.sources) {
    if (source.sourceType == EKSourceTypeLocal)
    {
        localSource = source;
        break;
    }
}

if (!localSource)
    return;

calendar = [EKCalendar calendarWithEventStore:eventStore];
calendar.source = localSource;
calendar.title = calendarName;

NSError* error;
bool success= [eventStore saveCalendar:calendar commit:YES error:&error];
if (error != nil)
{
    NSLog(error.description);
    // TODO: error handling here
}