I am working with a third party developer who is assisting me with developing an App for my business. We are using Parse as the backend service provider. One of my requirements for my App is I need to create a page to allow users to input an Event that includes a date as well as a start and end time. It is similar to creating an Event in Google Calendar where you can select a date from their calendar icon as well as start and end time. The developer I am working with was able to create the calendar, but said, "there was not a field to indicate the hours of the event. We require these fields on parse." Is this a limitation of Parse?
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Is it possible to redirect a user to Calendar app New Event screen programmatically with populated start and end dates? I am aware of Introduction to Calendars and Reminders, but that seems to be an overkill. I have also tried calshow://, but didn't seem to work either or I am couldn't find a correct scheme.
I've been trying to look for the answer to this quite some time.
Apple EventKit documentation isn't allowing changing meeting invitees programmatically since those properties in an EKEvent are read-only.
I'm trying to find a way to create a calendar meeting (not necessary using EventKit), adding invitees to the meeting and setting it programatically.
Any solution will be great,
Thanks!
As you already figured out you cannot currently write meeting fields in iOS (AFAIK EventKit is the only API giving you access to the calendar database on iOS).
If you know what kind of account it is (and get the credentials from the user), you could sidetrack EventKit and directly create meetings on the server. Eg using EWS when the account is on Exchange or CalDAV when the account is on iCloud or Apple Calendar Server etc.
And finally you always have the option to send out meeting invites via iMIP. Though you would still need to get the event into the users calendar (so that replies have a target). Depends on your useless whether this is useful.
I'm building a really simple App that needs to update its database following some users choices. Imagine a simple App for personal finances where users define some recurring transactions.
I'm trying to figure out which could be the best way to implement this feature.
I suppose that working with EventKit could be a good solution, but I can't understand if the events that I'm going to add through this framework are at the end also displayed into users calendar (which is a behaviour that I don't want).
So my question is which is in your opinion the best way to perform recurring events for an Application, without let the user know about that? (obviously through the application users can edit/remove/add these events).
Well EventKit is the SDK that allows you to interact with the user calendar, so any thing you add the calendar will be visible in the users calendar.
If you don't want you event to show in the users calendar then don't use EventKit. Just store all the event in a local database and use UILocalNotification to alert the user.
I am using Google Analytics iOS SDK (version 2 but will upgrade if it solves problem). How can I track what percentage of my app users have pressed a certain button at least once? I set up a lot of event tracking, thinking this would do it, but the reports are in terms of sessions not users. E.g., it will show what percentage of sessions included an event, so a single user may be counted multiple times. I defined a custom dimension variable that is unique for each app install, but I don't see how to use that as aggregation unit.
All I can think of is to define my own "one time events" by keeping my own database on the device and only pass to Google Analytics the first time it occurs. Is there no better way?
Google Analytics now offers User segment. You could create a user segment, and use the particular event you're interested in as a condition.
In the context of app measurement, a User is defined as a unique Client ID, which is the random ID generated by the GA SDK when the application first runs. It remains stable for as long as an app is installed.
More details here: http://analytics.blogspot.com/2013/07/re-imagining-segmentation-in-analytics.html
I am quite new to iOS, and I would appreciate if you can give me a clue on how to tackle this issue.
I am planning a mobile application and a cloud service to require "Google calendar is sync with the calendars on mobile devices" ( namely iPhone, iPad, and Android )
On Android, I can read calendar's event id from our Android app. If I change event attributes such as tile and time etc, the event id stays unchanged, and it seems to be a good way to associate our meta data to it (i.e. event id).
On iOS side, if I enable Google Sync, the events I defined on web still appear on the calendar on iOS. My question is "Can I problematically get event id that are assigned on Google Calendar?"
The following link says
"EKEvent's eventIdentifier is likely to be changed when event changes"
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/EventKit/Reference/EKEventClassRef/Reference/Reference.html#//apple_ref/occ/instm/EKEvent/eventIdentifier
... so my guess is that this field does not reflect event id from Google calendar.
I appreciate any suggestions.
Usually the event identifier is of the form:
88E45678-2S11-574E-ABF8-3B1E463ERF4C:google_calendar_id#google.com
for a google sync calendar event.
If there was a change made to one of the recurring calendar events the identifier can also have exception date at the end:
88E45678-2S11-574E-ABF8-3B1E463ERF4C:google_calendar_id#google.com<!ExceptionDate>20121025