Cannot read recurring events from android calendar programmatically

Question

I have followed the tutorial in this link - http://jimblackler.net/blog/?p=151&cpage=2#comment-52767 to access the internal android calendar database (even though it is

Answer 1

Use the Instances table if you need to locate recurring events.

The URIs for querying it are:

• instances/when/*/* - All instances between two times (milliseconds)
• instances/whenbyday/*/* - All instances between two times (days)
• instances/groupbyday/*/* - Same as whenbyday, but grouped by the start day

The list of columns in that table are:

• _id - The ID of this instance
• event_id - The event it was created from
• begin - Begin time (milliseconds)
• end - End time (milliseconds)
• startDay - Start day of instance
• endDay - End day of instance
• startMinute - Minutes since midnight (0..1440)
• endMinute - Minutes since midnight

You can also use the columns from the Events and Calendar tables.

You can see an example on the same page that you linked: http://jimblackler.net/blog/?p=151

Example:

String[] projection = new String[] {
        "title", "description", "begin", "eventLocation"
};
String selection = "calendar_id = " + calID;
String path = "instances/when/" + (now - window) + "/" + (now + window);
String sortOrder = "begin DESC";
Cursor managedCursor = getCalendarManagedCursor(
        projection, selection, path, sortorder);

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Edit: It seems Google got around to document the Calendar Provider. Browse to Calendar Providier | Google Developers for more information.

Answer 2

I finally made this work in the following way. Remember DTSTART, DTEND, _ID don't work for Instances table even if you can access them. Use BEGIN, END and Event_ID instead. Please refer to these 2 links: How to get calendar events with title including recurring events and Android Calendar Recurring Events Have Wrong End Date/Time

        long now = System.currentTimeMillis();

        Uri.Builder eventsUriBuilder = CalendarContract.Instances.CONTENT_URI.buildUpon();
        ContentUris.appendId(eventsUriBuilder, Long.MIN_VALUE);
        ContentUris.appendId(eventsUriBuilder, Long.MAX_VALUE);

        Uri eventsUri = eventsUriBuilder.build();
        Cursor cursor = context.getContentResolver().query(
            eventsUri,
            new String[] {CalendarContract.Instances.CALENDAR_ID, CalendarContract.Instances.TITLE,
                    CalendarContract.Instances.DESCRIPTION, CalendarContract.Instances.BEGIN,
                    CalendarContract.Instances.END, CalendarContract.Instances.EVENT_LOCATION,
                    CalendarContract.Instances.EVENT_ID},
            CalendarContract.Instances.BEGIN + " >= " + now + " and " + CalendarContract.Instances.BEGIN 
                    + " <= " + (now + 2592000000L) + " and " + CalendarContract.Instances.VISIBLE + " = 1",
            null,
            CalendarContract.Instances.BEGIN + " ASC");