iOS Calendar Plugins

PhoneGap Calendar plugin for iOS, by Raja Khan

For a quick demo app and easy code samples, check out the plugin page: http://www.javabrown.com/blog/objective-c/

Description Installation Automatically (CLI / Plugman) Manually PhoneGap Build Usage

1. Description

This plugin allows you to add events to the Calendar of the mobile device.

Works with PhoneGap >= 3.0. For PhoneGap 2.x, see the pre-3.0 branch. Compatible with Cordova Plugman. Officially supported by PhoneGap Build. iOS specifics

Supported methods: find, create, modify, delete, .. All methods work without showing the native calendar. Your app never looses control. Tested on iOS 6, 7 and 8.

2. Installation

Automatically (CLI / Plugman)

Calendar is compatible with Cordova Plugman and ready for the PhoneGap 3.0 CLI, here's how it works with the CLI:

$ phonegap local plugin add https://github.com/javabrown/iOSPlugins.git

or

$ cordova plugin add https://github.com/javabrown/iOSPlugins.git

and run this command afterwards:

$ cordova build

Manually

iOS

1. Add the following xml to your config.xml:

<feature name="Calendar">
    <param name="ios-package" value="jBrownCalendar" />
</feature>

2. Grab a copy of Calendar.js, add it to your project and reference it in index.html:

   <script type="text/javascript" src="js/jBrownCalendar.js"></script>

3. Download the source files for iOS and copy them to your project.

Copy jBrownCalendar.h and jBrownCalendar.m to platforms/ios//Plugins

4. Click your project in XCode, Build Phases, Link Binary With Libraries, search for and add EventKit.framework and EventKitUI.framework.

5. Usage

Basic operations, you'll want to copy-paste this for testing purposes:

var startDate = new Date(2015,11,25,18,10,0,0,0); // beware: month 0 = january, 11 = december
var endDate = new Date(2015,11,25,19,40,0,0,0);
var title = "Trip from White Plains to Chicago";

var location = "Grand Central";
var notes = "Your COACH:c10A, Seat: 15A. Please carry your ID card";

var success = function(message) { alert("Success: " + JSON.stringify(message)); };
var error = function(message) { alert("Error: " + message); };

var calOptions = {}; // grab the defaults
calOptions.firstReminderMinutes = 60; // default is 60, pass in null for no reminder
calOptions.secondReminderMinutes = 30;
calOptions.thirdReminderMinutes = 15;
            
jBrownJS.createEventWithCalendar(title,location,notes,
    startDate,endDate,calOptions, success,error);