I was struggling for a couple of weeks to get the react-native-calendar-events library working on my React Native project after it was upgraded from 0.53.3 to 0.60.4.
I was able to get it working on the iOS side via refactoring some code to execute authorizeEventStore before checking authorizationStatus like so:
export async function createCalendarEvent(event) {
const store = await RNCalendarEvents.authorizeEventStore();
console.log(store);
if (store === "authorize") {
addToCalendar(event);
} else {
RNCalendarEvents.authorizationStatus()
.then(auth => {
// handle status
if (auth === "authorized") {
addToCalendar(event);
}
})
.catch(() => {
alert("This app needs calendar access");
});
}
}
Unfortunately, this does not work on the Android side of the application. I have followed the Android setup guide here, even though it should not apply at this point with React-Native 60+ because of autolinking but I was running out of ideas:
https://github.com/wmcmahan/react-native-calendar-events/wiki/Android-setup
Sure enough, the above implementation did not work and there is no updated documentation. Not sure what I am missing, I have set this up on Android via autolinking, via the implementation above and still nothing.
I have been unsuccessful in getting any response from an open issue with the author of the lib: https://github.com/wmcmahan/react-native-calendar-events/issues/278
On the Android side when JavaScript executes this code:
export async function createCalendarEvent(event) {
const store = await RNCalendarEvents.authorizeEventStore();
console.log(store);
if (store === "authorized") {
addToCalendar(event);
} else {
RNCalendarEvents.authorizationStatus()
.then(auth => {
// handle status
if (auth === "authorized") {
addToCalendar(event);
}
})
.catch(() => {
alert("This app needs calendar access");
});
}
}
async function addToCalendar(event) {
try {
const startDate =
Platform.OS === "ios"
? format(parse(event.StartDateLocal))
: parse(event.StartDateLocal);
const endDate =
Platform.OS === "ios"
? format(parse(event.EndDateLocal))
: parse(event.EndDateLocal);
const allEvents = await RNCalendarEvents.fetchAllEvents(startDate, endDate);
const calendarEvent = allEvents.find(e => e.title === event.Title);
if (calendarEvent) {
alert("You have already added this event to your calendar.");
} else {
const title = event.Title;
const {
Location: {
AddressLine1: address,
City: city,
StateAbbreviation: state,
PostalCode: zip
}
} = event;
const location = `${address}, ${city}, ${state}, ${zip}`;
const settings = {
location,
startDate,
endDate
};
RNCalendarEvents.saveEvent(title, settings)
.then(() => {
alert("Event Saved");
})
.catch(rejectionReason => {
console.log(rejectionReason);
alert("Oops! Something has gone wrong.");
});
}
} catch (e) {
alert(e.message);
}
}
it continues to print out alert("Oops! Something has gone wrong."); as opposed to the iOS side which prints out alert("Event Saved");
