Using Calendar EventKit to fulfil a specific purpose for my app

Question

Hey guys I am a beginner programmer making my first app. I am trying to create a "note to future self" IOS app on Xcode. Basically you add a note that you want to share with yourself at any particular date in the future. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can implement this either by using Eventkit or by some other method?

Answer 1

You can do it like this, here is the play by play:

• You have to add NSCalendarsUsageDescription key in your plist file, because you are accessing user's privacy sensitive data

• Go to your ViewController, import EventKit

• Add this code on your viewDidLoad on any viewcontroller to add event to device calendar, you can move this code later based on how you gonna build your app

  let eventStore = EKEventStore()
let event = EKEvent(eventStore: eventStore)
event.title = "My First Event"
event.startDate = NSDate() as Date
event.endDate = event.startDate.addingTimeInterval(60*60)
event.calendar = eventStore.defaultCalendarForNewEvents
do{
try eventStore.save(event, span: .thisEvent, commit: true)
}catch let err{
print("Error: \(err.localizedDescription)")
}

Here's what we do

• we made an object from EKEventStore class, EKEventStore is an application’s point of contact for accessing calendar and reminder data. You can read more about it here EKEventStore

• we made an event object, set its name as "My First Event", its startDate as current date, its end date as current time plus 2 hours, and eventually its calendar to default calendar set on user's device

• then we try to insert the event object we just made to device calendar, and voila

• remember to wrap save function in a do catch block since it could throw error

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