I tried a bit of research, but I don't seem to be getting anywhere.
Is it possible to access the calendar on iPad/iPhone iOS5 from a web app?
My goal would be adding an event to it, is that achievable? Opening a filestream is an option, in case this helps.
Thank you
That's not available through a web app. The only thing you can do is include a date in the text within the web app. iOS will detect it as an event (if formatted correctly) and will give the user an option to create a calendar event when clicked.
Here on this SO question, the OP mentions he had no problems in adding a calendar event on iOS by means of an iCal file created on the fly.
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I am working on universal App. In my App i need to add an event based calendar.
Is there any good tutorial to do this or anyone then please provide some information about how to create calendar and add an events to the dates.
You can have a look at https://github.com/klazuka/Kal as its easy to understand and sample is also included.
I want to create or use an open source php calendar as a webservice. This is just one feature of an entire app idea of mine, but I'm working on the app in steps and would like to start with a calendar. Is there a way to use a php calendar to update an iphone apps calendar? Example, I want to be able to add an appointment within the iphone app and have it update on the php calendar on my website? I want syncronization both ways. If I decide to add an event on the calendar through the website, I would like it to update in the iphone app.
For the maximum amount of customization I would go the route of writing your own calendar in PHP. Then you can make the calendar work exactly how you want and it can work seamlessly with your App. This shouldnt be too difficult as for a class project I had to right a simple PHP Calendar (it didnt have web services but still). Ray Wenderlich discusses several ways of using web services in iOS apps, and even has an example based on PHP/MySQL.
How To Write A Simple PHP/MySQL Web Service for an iOS App
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To Write An iOS App That Uses A Web Service
So I have this iPhone app, working a lot with my webserver (PHP) and getting data from there, mostly HTML content. In this app you can see a list of events (with date, hour etc). Now my users asked me if they could include it to their native iPhone calendar.
Is that possible, and if yes, how?
Do I need to update my application for that or is it possible to generate a file at the server side which the users simply can download? I kinda hoped I could do it that way.
Try using the EventKit framework: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/EventKit/Reference/EventKitFrameworkRef/_index.htmlLike explained here: Programmatically add custom event in the iPhone Calendar
Is it possible, and how could I, launch the iPhone calendar application from within an iPhone application.
For example your application may have a "select date", and then a "launch iPhone calendar" for this date button. Is this possible to do, and how would one do this programmatically?
I know it's not a real answer. But I advise you to use a UIDatePicker to let the user select dates. I don't know if there's a offical way to start the calender. But you could also use the Tapku Library of Kal if you really want to use a calender. There's a replacement of the Calender UI which is used in iOS. (Because these elements aren't public)
Answer seems to be, that at this stage, there are no published URLs for Calendar that lets you do this...
I've noticed that the icon belonging to the Calendar app on the iPhone updates to show the latest day. Is there anything in the SDK that will let me do this in my apps?
It's not possible for third-party apps, unfortunately.
I've never seen this in any documentation, pretty sure it can only use the static icon.png file that is put in the ipa package. It would be an awesome feature though, I would recommend creating a feature request for it on https://bugreport.apple.com/. I specifically wish the weather app would update with your local weather for the icon.