This package has been deprecated in favor to useCalendar Hook

expo-calendar-helper

This package will help you to ask permissions to access to calendar and reminders, create new calendar, add events to calendar and delete that one by calendarId.

Update to Expo SDK40

Installation

$ npm install expo-calendar-helper
or
$ yarn add expo-calendar-helper

Usage

To ask permissions and create a new calendar

import { askPermissionsAsync, newCalendar } from 'expo-calendar-helper';

createCalendar = async () => {
    const status = await askPermissionsAsync();
    if (status) {
      newCalendar('MAZINGER Z','lightgreen', 'mazingerSecureStore');
    } else {
      alert(
        'The app need permissions to access to calendar.'
      );
    }
  };

askPermissionsAsync():

return granted string if you gave permissions to access calendar, return null if you not.

newCalendar():

create a new calendar.

• calendarTitle: Calendar title
• calendarColor: Calendar color
• nameCalendarStore: name to save in the mobile using SecureStore inside "nameCalendarStore" is stored the calendarId, you can get it using SecureStore.getItemAsync()

To add a new event

import { addEventsToCalendar } from 'expo-calendar-helper';

addEvent = (nameCalendarStore, eventTitle, startDate, endDate) => {
    try {
      addEventsToCalendar(nameCalendarStore, eventTitle, startDate, endDate);
    } catch (e) {
      console.log(e.message);
    }
  };

addEventsToCalendar():

add an event to calendar

this receive four parameters:

• nameCalendarStore: name to load the calendarId from the mobile using SecureStore saved in the mobile created using newCalendar()
• eventTitle: event title
• eventStartDate: event start date
• eventEndDate: event end date

To delete a calendar

import { deleteCalendarId } from 'expo-calendar-helper';

deleteCalendarId(nameCalendarStore);

deleteCalendarId():

delete a calendar

this receive one parameter:

• nameCalendarStore: name to load the calendarId from the mobile using SecureStore saved in the mobile created using newCalendar()

Thanks to:

Stanisław Chmiela

for helping me create a new calendar on iOS.

SleepyFanjo

for sharing how to create an event on iOS.

Expo Team

for develop a great framework to work with react native.

Licensing

This project is licensed under MIT license.