I'm building an app that heavily relies on EKEventStore for calendar and reminder integration. The API is simple - and limited.
Change notifications amount to "something changed, you'd better refetch everything you care about." There's no way to know whether the calendar was updated while your app was closed or backgrounded. EKEvents and EKReminders don't trigger SwiftUI view updates, so you end up shunting them into your own observable state and keeping the two in sync.
My app is fairly complex rendering-wise, and I lament being locked into treating EKEventStore as a first-class citizen of my view and data layer. It makes everything clunkier, essentially shuts the door on modern features like undo/redo, and makes integrating with other calendar providers that much harder.
I'm exploring a custom SwiftData DataStore ↔ EKEventStore sync engine, but this is no easy task. There are still many unknowns I'd need to spike out before I can even attempt a proper implementation.
Still, I'm curious - is this something being actively worked on behind the scenes? Will we see a more modern, observable, SwiftUI-native EventKit integration in the future?
