I'm creating an android app that creates an event in google calendar using app.
Now it is creating an event properly, but there is a problem. If I schedule the first event from 1pm to 3pm, it should not create a second event if it is on 1.30pm to 2pm on the same day.
So what I'm saying is I want to avoid time conflict (double booking) between the time in same date.
Thanks in advance
Try not to create an event directly to the calendar. Instead, use invitations. If you read through this blog, you'll know that Google Calendars are set to 'Automatically add all invitations to this calendar', which can cause double booking.
Use events.insert().
More on that in Calendar API docs.
You can also play and test this using Calendar try-it.
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I created an Android app that read all the events of the calendar, it's work fine but I can't read the list of reminders: the simplified event in the Google calendar identified by this icon (knot on the finger)
Google Calendar Reminder
Someone can tell me how can I read this type of event or where can I find a tutorial or a guide where this is explained?
If you want to fetch list of reminders, use Events.list. It returns events and the accompanying reminders.
Default reminders
Default reminders are also returned when
doing an Events list query.
I discovered that the reminders aren't only on calendar but are in different Google app (keep for example).
Unfortunately it's not possible to access a this kind of data.
This the link of the answer in Stackoverflow: How to read reminders in google calendars
According to OferR The Reminders data is held in a database and accessible by the 'com.google.android.gms.reminders.provider.RemindersProvider' content provider.
So, the provider is not exported and therefore is not accessible to third party apps.
I am working on calendar application and i search on this issue "how to get all tasks from android calendar not from google calendar" but i got that it is not possible to fetch tasks from the calendar.can anybody tell me is it true or false? in case of false please help me to getting tasks from calendar in android.
I am using inbuilt sPlanner not google calendar.
Tasks is not part of Calendar. However, you can use the Tasks API to accomplish this under the right circumstances.
By default, there's no identifier for whether or not a Task is associated with your Calendar or not. Two easy ways of creating such an identifier would be to either include some sort of key in the description or create a Task List exclusively for Calendar tasks.
If using a key, just retrieve all the tasks and pick only ones containing your key. If using an exclusive Task List, just list all the tasks from the specific list.
Also the calendar being on Android also should not matter here. The Android Calendar app just displays a Google Calendar.
I'm new to Android development, and I am trying to build an app that has a task list with items that recur at a user specified frequency. I would like the user to select the first due date for the task, and also specify the frequency for the recurrence, similar to how you can do this for events in Google Calendar (I am currently using a DatePickerDialog to allow the user to select a due date; I am just missing the recurrence piece). However, I do not want to put events in the calendar using the calendar API. I have searched StackOverflow and have come up empty; I see plenty on the calendar API but don't believe this is what I am looking for (since I don't want to put anything in the user's calendar); is this a correct assumption? Is there a class that I have missed that handles recurring dates? Or, is there a simpler way to go about this?
I was looking for pretty much the same thing and I ended up using BetterPickers library. There are various dialogs you can use and one of them is also a RecurrencePickerDialog which looks a lot like the one in Google Calendar app.
I am new at android this, so this might sound a bit confusing..
i am making an app that requires to have calendars showing events in week, day and month views (like google calendar). I have implemented this is a testing version but i want to change the implementation to make it more flexible. currently the event are stored in database and are edited and used in various activities in the app. Can i have android manage the events in it's calendar? but i would still need to be able to manipulate it from the app and store extra info other than the time and date and description. These extra info will be used for calculations. We also need to have a calendar in the app. Can we retrieve the events specific to the app for doing all this?
This tutorial might be of help.
i have an application in which i need to sync the events that i get from an xml to the default calendar provided in the users phone.
for the above i have referred this tutorial.But over here the first it is required to get the id and name of all the available calendars in the users phone... i don't know the id and name of the default calendar in the users phone....which calendar should i use to put events in?
i am not putting the code here as the code is present in the link given.
thank you in advance.
You can't know ahead of time. There is no system setting for the default calendar. You must account for this in your application by allowing the user to select the calendar or coming up with your own way of determining the "default".
Be careful not to rely on the persistence of any calendar because if they are Google calendars they will come and go with corresponding changes in the cloud.