Adding event with reminders to calendar with 'Intent.putExtra()' way of doing

Question

I'm trying to add events to calendar with the following code :

public Intent calPopulation()
{
        Intent calIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_INSERT);
        calIntent.setType("vnd.android.cursor.item/event");
        calIntent.putExtra(CalendarContract.Events.TITLE, this._title);

        GregorianCalendar calDate = new GregorianCalendar(this._year,this._month, this._day, this._hour, this._minute);
        calIntent.putExtra(CalendarContract.EXTRA_EVENT_BEGIN_TIME, calDate.getTimeInMillis());
        calIntent.putExtra(CalendarContract.EXTRA_EVENT_END_TIME, calDate.getTimeInMillis()+60*60*1000);
        calIntent.putExtra(CalendarContract.Events.HAS_ALARM, true);
        calIntent.putExtra(CalendarContract.Reminders.EVENT_ID, CalendarContract.Events._ID);
        calIntent.putExtra(CalendarContract.Events.ALLOWED_REMINDERS, "METHOD_DEFAULT");
        calIntent.putExtra(CalendarContract.Reminders.METHOD, CalendarContract.Reminders.METHOD_ALERT);

        calIntent.putExtra(CalendarContract.Reminders.MINUTES,5);
        return calIntent;
}

And then launch the action with : startActivity(mTask.calPopulation());

I don't have any issue, the calendar app event launched with the correct information I entered into my app, except that it does not fill in the event the reminder I would like to add.

Do you have any clues? I tried to search within many threads using this method (I mean the intent.putExtra) but never find anything interesting.

Other point, is there a way to directly save the event + reminder into the calendar without opening calendar App and requesting for user action?

Thanks in advance. Alex.

Hi, my goal is to set reminders in the same time I'm adding an event to the calendar. With my given example, the reminder is not existing in the calendar after starting the activity. — Alexandre
Did you manage to get this right? While still using Intent and not directly adding it? — Zapnologica

Alexandre Alexandre · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-02T15:53:59

No answer according to the method I pointed out, but another way I found to add event with reminders to the calendar.

Hereunder methods are working fine for me :

// Add an event to the calendar of the user.
    public void addEvent(Context context) {
        GregorianCalendar calDate = new GregorianCalendar(this._year, this._month, this._day, this._hour, this._minute);

        try {
            ContentResolver cr = context.getContentResolver();
            ContentValues values = new ContentValues();
            values.put(CalendarContract.Events.DTSTART, calDate.getTimeInMillis());
            values.put(CalendarContract.Events.DTEND, calDate.getTimeInMillis()+60*60*1000);
            values.put(CalendarContract.Events.TITLE, this._title);
            values.put(CalendarContract.Events.CALENDAR_ID, 1);
            values.put(CalendarContract.Events.EVENT_TIMEZONE, Calendar.getInstance()
                    .getTimeZone().getID());
            System.out.println(Calendar.getInstance().getTimeZone().getID());
            Uri uri = cr.insert(CalendarContract.Events.CONTENT_URI, values);

            // Save the eventId into the Task object for possible future delete.
            this._eventId = Long.parseLong(uri.getLastPathSegment());
            // Add a 5 minute, 1 hour and 1 day reminders (3 reminders)
            setReminder(cr, this._eventId, 5);
            setReminder(cr, this._eventId, 60);
            setReminder(cr, this._eventId, 1440);

        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    // routine to add reminders with the event
    public void setReminder(ContentResolver cr, long eventID, int timeBefore) {
        try {
            ContentValues values = new ContentValues();
            values.put(CalendarContract.Reminders.MINUTES, timeBefore);
            values.put(CalendarContract.Reminders.EVENT_ID, eventID);
            values.put(CalendarContract.Reminders.METHOD, CalendarContract.Reminders.METHOD_ALERT);
            Uri uri = cr.insert(CalendarContract.Reminders.CONTENT_URI, values);
            Cursor c = CalendarContract.Reminders.query(cr, eventID,
                    new String[]{CalendarContract.Reminders.MINUTES});
            if (c.moveToFirst()) {
                System.out.println("calendar"
                        + c.getInt(c.getColumnIndex(CalendarContract.Reminders.MINUTES)));
            }
            c.close();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    // function to remove an event from the calendar using the eventId stored within the Task object.
    public void removeEvent(Context context) {
        ContentResolver cr = context.getContentResolver();

        int iNumRowsDeleted = 0;

        Uri eventsUri = Uri.parse(CALENDAR_URI_BASE+"events");
        Uri eventUri = ContentUris.withAppendedId(eventsUri, this._eventId);
        iNumRowsDeleted = cr.delete(eventUri, null, null);

        Log.i(DEBUG_TAG, "Deleted " + iNumRowsDeleted + " calendar entry.");
    }


    public int updateEvent(Context context) {
        int iNumRowsUpdated = 0;
        GregorianCalendar calDate = new GregorianCalendar(this._year, this._month, this._day, this._hour, this._minute);

        ContentValues event = new ContentValues();

        event.put(CalendarContract.Events.TITLE, this._title);
        event.put("hasAlarm", 1); // 0 for false, 1 for true
        event.put(CalendarContract.Events.DTSTART, calDate.getTimeInMillis());
        event.put(CalendarContract.Events.DTEND, calDate.getTimeInMillis()+60*60*1000);

        Uri eventsUri = Uri.parse(CALENDAR_URI_BASE+"events");
        Uri eventUri = ContentUris.withAppendedId(eventsUri, this._eventId);

        iNumRowsUpdated = context.getContentResolver().update(eventUri, event, null,
                null);

        // TODO put text into strings.xml
        Log.i(DEBUG_TAG, "Updated " + iNumRowsUpdated + " calendar entry.");

        return iNumRowsUpdated;
    }

Hope this could help others that encountered the same problem I had :).

Alex.

Adding event with reminders to calendar with 'Intent.putExtra()' way of doing

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