Chapter 15. Event Kit
The userâs life isnât confined to the use of computers and phones, and many people even use technology to interact with other human beings. One capability of Apple devices is calendaring and scheduling, which is usually managed through built-in applications (the Calendar app on iOS and OS X).
However, it can be very useful for third-party applications to be able to access the calendar, either to create new appointments or to view what the user has lined up for the day. This information is exposed via Event Kit, the calendar data store API.
In this chapter, youâll learn how to work with Event Kit to access the userâs calendar. The same API applies to both OS X and iOS; in this chapter, the sample code will be written for OS X.
Understanding Events
All of the information that relates to the userâs calendars comes from the
Event Kit event store. This object, which is an
instance of the EKEventStore
, acts
as the database of all calendars, which themselves contain events.
The event store stores multiple calendars, which are EKCalendar
objects.
Each calendar has information like its name, whether itâs editable,
whether itâs a subscribed calendar, and so on.
An âeventâ is an entry in the userâs calendar, and is represented as
an EKEvent
object. Events
contain several key pieces of information, including:
A text label describing what the event is
The date and times that the event begins and ends
The location of the event
When the event was created and last ...
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