Is there a way to fill out the calendar for Droid 4.0 without using the built in form?
For example, I created my own form where the user fills out, and upon a button press, I want it to add the events to the calendar.
If that is not possible, can I somehow edit the built in form?
Currently, my program fills out my form, saves all the variables, and puts it in the default form. Thus the user has to click the submit button twice in order to register an event.
Starting with API 14 (Honeycomb), you can use CalendarProvider to read and write calendar events directly.
You will obviously need to set the proper permissions in your manifest (android.permission.READ_CALENDAR and android.permission.WRITE_CALENDAR).
Sadly, this is not supported on previous android versions...
Here is the official documentation
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Recently was given the opportunity to create an Android app for my college group. But I was not satisfied with the event page. I wanted to create a dynamic page in which admin can update the upcoming events. On using URI the images were a bit off. Can anyone help me?
If you want to create Event Page which can be changed dynamically, you should design a page such that, you give a provision of adding Events, displaying it and
refreshing the UI.
I would suggest before start implementing an App, you should gather requirements, define the features of the App, Design the App and then go after implementing.
You can use Firebase storage and Real-time database to store data and images. Also, create an admin application for changing the image.
You can have provision to add an event, persist the event details by using either database or webservice, and updating the event.
The create event page can be made dynamic by having provisions to add/subtract event detail items from the screen. For example: Use can have a section saying Number of day(s) and a + button besides it to add details about each added day.
If you want only admin user to be able to add, update, and delete the event you can use role based login (for login again, you can use either database or webservice).
These are just rough ideas, but its necessary that you freeze the requirements before jumping into designing the app.
I decided to use Google Calendar API for my running app. I need to have some default public events in my calendar, this way anybody who is logged with different Google accounts could see them.
The questions is, what is the easiest way to store events, that everybody, who is logged from different accounts could see them?Maybe I need to create main events calendar and share to other local calendars?
You may want to check the use of Extended Properties which makes it easy to store application-specific data for an event without having to utilize an external database.
You can have the shared properties which are visible and editable by all attendees of an event. This property is shown regardless of the calendarId used in the request.
And to add or update events, using patch requests is the preferred method, as it allows you to manipulate some properties while leaving others untouched. Adding a new property with the same key will overwrite any existing properties with the same key.
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I have created a custom Calendar in android, kept in sync with a remote server via SyncAdapter using a custom Account with a custom AccountType.
The sync works fine and my app on the device has an activity that allows the user to insert edit and delete events in my custom calendar.
The only "problem" is the usability,
since the user wants to use the standard calendar app present on the device, because he's used to it's interface, etc.
Actually when I open my events from the standard calendar app, I can see the details of the event but there is no edit or delete function available.
In order to edit such appointments the user must close the standard calendar app, open my app (which should provide a list of the events and then edit them.)
Is it possible to let the system know that there is my App on the device with a specific Activity that is able to perform operations like edit or delete on the events belonging to my custom calendar which has a specific account type ?
Any Idea on how to achieve this?
Thanks in advance.
I want to reproduce google calender in my application which shows all events in calender, After clicking on date, details of Even on that date should be displayed and if there is no event then option to add event must be given.
My question is whether google(android) provide any in build widgets which is capable of showing events, Currently I am using CalenderView which shows only dates and there is no way to show events in it.
if there is any material on this problem please let me know. I know GoogleCalender v3 api and how to retrieve data from there my main problem is how to show events in calender.
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.