About Calendar Events

Description: Fetching and modifying calendar events and reminders

Come here to learn and share best practices for:

• Calendar events: creating, modifying, and fetching events in the user's calendars
• Reminders: creating, modifying, and fetching reminders in the user's reminder lists
• EventKitUI: showing a picker for calendars and reminder lists; showing a detail view or editor for a calendar event

For other calendar-related APIs, use:

• Cocoa Touchfor Foundation (e.g., NSCalendar, NSDateComponents, NSDate) and UIKit (e.g., UIDatePicker, UIEvent) APIs
• Localization for region-specific encodings
• Collaboration Serverfor the CalDAV APIs used by OS X Server's Calendar Server
• Apple Push Notification for UILocalNotification

Resources

• Documentation
  • EventKit framework reference
  • EventKitUI reference…
  • Calendar and Reminders programming guide…
  • Example code: SimpleEKDemo
• WWDC Videos
  • Calendar Integration with Event Kit
  • Events and Reminders in Event Kit