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Simple example project showing basic parts of Event Kit like loading events from calendar, selecting calendar, editing events..

License: MIT License

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Any chance of a swiftUI version of this? I've found information of EventKit & EventKitui rarer than unicorn S*!t

Suggestion to break list into day segments

To make reading the time line easier

EKEventEditViewController initial focus

Do you know if there is a way to change the initial focus of the view controller from the title field to the start date selection instead?
I'm providing the title & event duration automatically already, so choosing the startDate & time is often the only edit required. Would be great to remove an unnecessary step in my app by having the initial focus ready to go. Thank you so much again for providing this example.

Errors when launching the app for the first time

Hi,

I noticed two console errors when launching your app for the first time on a clean simulator:

EventKit Example[9647:3259614] [EventKit] Error getting default calendar for new events: Error Domain=EKCADErrorDomain Code=1013 "(null)"

Followed by:

EventKit Example[9647:3259614] [EventKit] No object ID provided. Will not find out if the object exists.

Also (I don't know if this is related to the above errors), when you launch the app for the first time, approve the calendar access and then try to select calendars, the list of available calendars is empty. If I however kill the app and restart it, the list is populated and I can select calendars.

Also note that if I kill the app and restart it, it seems that the error messages are gone.

Edit: The above is also repeatable when the app is installed on my device

Edit2: Forgot to mention that this is in your SwiftUI example.

Relative time giving odd results

I'm not sure if this is a system bug as couldn't see anything in your code, but "tomorrow" is being shown for what is actually the day after tomorrow. The real tomorrow is being described as ("17hrs away") as example)
Great progress so far Filip.

iOS 15, "bottom sheet"

Hi Filip,

I read your blog post about the "bottom sheet" in iOS 15 and I noticed that you used the calendar chooser from your EKEventKit example. I would like to use that style myself but I'm not sure how to implement it. Would you mind giving me a complete example of how to use the bottom sheet style in your calendar chooser (which I'm using in my SwiftUI project)?

I would really appreciate it, thanks in advance!

Selected Calendars not being persisted

On closing the app calendar selections are forgotten and only users default cal is recalled on reopening.

Recurring events issue

If an event is set up as recurring, the StartDate for each returned event is always shown as the first date only.

eg: a returned event list might look like.
In 3 days ( returns 29th Sept in list & is correct 29th Sept)
In 4 days ( returns 30th Sept in list & is correct 30th Sept)
In 3 days ( returns 29th Sept in list but is actually 6th Oct)
In 4 days ( returns 30th Sept in list but is actually 7th Oct)
etc...

This seems like a bug in eventKit but maybe you have an idea?

Refresh events when app is reopened/brought to foreground

I'm fairly new to Swift and I've been using some of your EKEventKit examples (great work!) in a small project of mine. I've noticed one thing though. If you exit the app and make some changes to an event in the calendar app (like changing the name), the events fetched by your example are not updated. I can get the events to update by force closing the app or by reselecting the calendar(s).

Would it be possible to extend the example so it also updates the events when the app re-opened/brought back to foreground? Maybe by e.g. .willEnterForegroundNotification, or some other solution?