ical/.ics issue

[tjcflys]

Have not been able to get iCalendar option to work with recent releases of iOS. I verified that your formatting is correct using the validator at icalendar.org. Could it be an issue with downloadjs? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[jshor]

It's indeed an issue with downloadjs. Unfortunately downloadjs doesn't work with Safari. I have plans to fix this soon with FileSaver however (see: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12802109/download-blobs-locally-using-safari)

[tjcflys]

I think that question might have been referring to Safari for OS. I tried filesaver and it does not seem to work. Filesaver's own documentation informs that it will not work with iOS. I decided to create the file server side and then serve it. Thanks for the help and good luck!

[jshor]

@tjcflys you're right, there are issues with iOS using FileSaver.js:

saveAs must be run within a user interaction event such as onTouchDown or onClick; setTimeout will prevent saveAs from triggering.

However I don't think this will be a problem with the dlIcal() function so I used angular-file-saver (a wrapper for FileSaver.js). It works on Safari desktop at least.

If you have a chance, could you please clone this repo and checkout to develop to see if the issue is fixed on iOS/safari? Thanks!

[jshor]

This appears to work in iOS versions I've tested - the latest fix is in v1.2.0

[tjcflys]

Sorry it took so long to get back to you man. I just tried 1.2.0 on 2 different Apple devices with no luck. Screenshot is attached if that helps.

[jshor]

Hey @tjcflys no worries - sorry to hear that the fix didn't work. I'm going to re-open this issue.

[fierysolid]

Any news on this? I've been googling like mad to find a solution.

[jshor]

@fierysolid unfortunately no, sorry. According to this it looks like iOS Safari will always render the file name as "Unknown."

I might end up implementing browser detection for Safari and having the menu not show options for icalendar on iOS safari.

[jhallmusic]

Hi @jshor I noticed you closed this a couple months ago, is there still no solution? I'm still experiencing this, and it seems that maybe there's a fix from the link you provided above. thanks!