How to add calendar events in Android?

Question

I\'m just getting up to speed on Android, and today in a project meeting someone said that Android has no native calendar app so users just use whatever calendar app they li

Answer 1

Try this ,

   Calendar beginTime = Calendar.getInstance();
    beginTime.set(yearInt, monthInt - 1, dayInt, 7, 30);



    ContentValues l_event = new ContentValues();
    l_event.put("calendar_id", CalIds[0]);
    l_event.put("title", "event");
    l_event.put("description",  "This is test event");
    l_event.put("eventLocation", "School");
    l_event.put("dtstart", beginTime.getTimeInMillis());
    l_event.put("dtend", beginTime.getTimeInMillis());
    l_event.put("allDay", 0);
    l_event.put("rrule", "FREQ=YEARLY");
    // status: 0~ tentative; 1~ confirmed; 2~ canceled
    // l_event.put("eventStatus", 1);

    l_event.put("eventTimezone", "India");
    Uri l_eventUri;
    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 8) {
        l_eventUri = Uri.parse("content://com.android.calendar/events");
    } else {
        l_eventUri = Uri.parse("content://calendar/events");
    }
    Uri l_uri = MainActivity.this.getContentResolver()
            .insert(l_eventUri, l_event);

Answer 2

Just in case if someone needs this for Xamarin in c#:

        Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ActionInsert);
        intent.SetData(Android.Provider.CalendarContract.Events.ContentUri);
        intent.PutExtra(Android.Provider.CalendarContract.ExtraEventBeginTime, Utils.Tools.CurrentTimeMillis(game.Date));
        intent.PutExtra(Android.Provider.CalendarContract.EventsColumns.AllDay, false);
        intent.PutExtra(Android.Provider.CalendarContract.EventsColumns.EventLocation, "Location");
        intent.PutExtra(Android.Provider.CalendarContract.EventsColumns.Description, "Description");
        intent.PutExtra(Android.Provider.CalendarContract.ExtraEventEndTime, Utils.Tools.CurrentTimeMillis(game.Date.AddHours(2)));
        intent.PutExtra(Android.Provider.CalendarContract.EventsColumns.Title, "Title");
        StartActivity(intent);

Helper Functions:

    private static readonly DateTime Jan1st1970 = new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, DateTimeKind.Utc);

    public static long CurrentTimeMillis(DateTime date)
    {
        return (long)(date.ToUniversalTime() - Jan1st1970).TotalMilliseconds;
    }

Answer 3

if you have a given Date string with date and time .

for e.g String givenDateString = pojoModel.getDate()/* Format dd-MMM-yyyy hh:mm:ss */

use the following code to add an event with date and time to the calendar

Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
cal.setTime(new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yyyy hh:mm:ss").parse(givenDateString));
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_EDIT);
intent.setType("vnd.android.cursor.item/event");
intent.putExtra("beginTime", cal.getTimeInMillis());
intent.putExtra("allDay", false);
intent.putExtra("rrule", "FREQ=YEARLY");
intent.putExtra("endTime",cal.getTimeInMillis() + 60 * 60 * 1000);
intent.putExtra("title", " Test Title");
startActivity(intent);

Answer 4

i used the code below, it solves my problem to add event in default device calendar in ICS and also on version less that ICS

    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 14) {
        Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_INSERT)
        .setData(Events.CONTENT_URI)
        .putExtra(CalendarContract.EXTRA_EVENT_BEGIN_TIME, beginTime.getTimeInMillis())
        .putExtra(CalendarContract.EXTRA_EVENT_END_TIME, endTime.getTimeInMillis())
        .putExtra(Events.TITLE, "Yoga")
        .putExtra(Events.DESCRIPTION, "Group class")
        .putExtra(Events.EVENT_LOCATION, "The gym")
        .putExtra(Events.AVAILABILITY, Events.AVAILABILITY_BUSY)
        .putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, "rowan@example.com,trevor@example.com");
         startActivity(intent);
}

    else {
        Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();              
        Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_EDIT);
        intent.setType("vnd.android.cursor.item/event");
        intent.putExtra("beginTime", cal.getTimeInMillis());
        intent.putExtra("allDay", true);
        intent.putExtra("rrule", "FREQ=YEARLY");
        intent.putExtra("endTime", cal.getTimeInMillis()+60*60*1000);
        intent.putExtra("title", "A Test Event from android app");
        startActivity(intent);
        }

Hope it would help.....