Eliasz Sawicki
iOS developer from Gdansk
EventKit - Gaining access to calendar events
- 1 minIf you want to gain access to your calendar events it’s time to use EventKit. EventKit allows you to do multiple operations with calendar events and reminders. In this post I will cover gaining access to existing events in your calendar.
Getting access to events in your calendar
In order to get desired access you need to follow a few basic steps.
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Your app needs to gain access to calendar. This code will show the alert to a user when app is opened for the first time. You can always change it in app’s settings later on.
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Getting a list of calendars available on your device. Using this method you will get an array of ‘EKCalendar’ type objects.
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Getting events from your calendars. This way you get array of EKEvent objects describing events in your calendar.