archriss / react-native-calendarevents-android

Add events to Android's calendar with React Native

react-native-calendarevents-android

Add events to user's calendar on Android.

Getting started

Manual install

1. npm install react-native-calendarevents-android --save
2. Open up android/app/src/main/java/[...]/MainApplication.java

• Add com.exilz.calendarevents.CalendarEventsPackage; to the imports at the top of the file
• Add new CalendarEventsPackage() to the list returned by the getPackages() method

3. Append the following lines to android/settings.gradle:

    include ':react-native-calendarevents-android'
    project(':react-native-calendarevents-android').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir, '../node_modules/react-native-calendarevents-android')

4. Insert the following lines inside the dependencies block in android/app/build.gradle:

    compile project(':react-native-calendarevents-android')

5. Add permissions in your AndroidManifest.xml

    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_CALENDAR" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_CALENDAR" />

Usage

Example

import AndroidCalendarEvents from 'react-native-calendarevents-android';

AndroidCalendarEvents.addEvent(
    {
        title: 'Event title',
        startDate: Date.now(),
        endDate: Date.now() + 3600 * 1000,
        description: 'Event description',
        location: 'Paris, France'
    },
    (success) => console.log(success),
    (error) => console.log(error)
);

Methods

addEvent(options)

Open calendar event dialog

Supported options:

Name	Type	Description
title	string	Event title (required)
startDate	number	Start date in milliseconds from epoch (required)
endDate	number	End date in milliseconds from epoch (optional)
description	string	Description to be pre-filled (optional)
location	string	Location to be pre-filled and looked for by Google (optional)