Cannot read recurring events from android calendar programmatically

Question

I have followed the tutorial in this link - http://jimblackler.net/blog/?p=151&cpage=2#comment-52767 to access the internal android calendar database (even though it is

Answer 1

Use the Instances table if you need to locate recurring events.

The URIs for querying it are:

• instances/when/*/* - All instances between two times (milliseconds)
• instances/whenbyday/*/* - All instances between two times (days)
• instances/groupbyday/*/* - Same as whenbyday, but grouped by the start day

The list of columns in that table are:

• _id - The ID of this instance
• event_id - The event it was created from
• begin - Begin time (milliseconds)
• end - End time (milliseconds)
• startDay - Start day of instance
• endDay - End day of instance
• startMinute - Minutes since midnight (0..1440)
• endMinute - Minutes since midnight

You can also use the columns from the Events and Calendar tables.

You can see an example on the same page that you linked: http://jimblackler.net/blog/?p=151

Example:

String[] projection = new String[] {
        "title", "description", "begin", "eventLocation"
};
String selection = "calendar_id = " + calID;
String path = "instances/when/" + (now - window) + "/" + (now + window);
String sortOrder = "begin DESC";
Cursor managedCursor = getCalendarManagedCursor(
        projection, selection, path, sortorder);

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Edit: It seems Google got around to document the Calendar Provider. Browse to Calendar Providier | Google Developers for more information.