iPhone Event Kit : programmatically create a EKCalendar?

Question

I would like to insert events in my app, so they can be viewed in iPhone Calendar.app. But since I don\'t want to mix the user events with those from my app, I wanted to cre

Answer 1

Do you (or anyone else) have any progress with adding a new Calendar?

I've got the same situation. I can programmatically add events to the default calendar perfectly well, but I'd like to add them to a new calendar, so they don't interfere with the users exsisting events, and can be easily deleted/hidden by the user instead of removing all events manually.

You can't set the properties for a new EKCalendar object. It looks like you can only assign an exsiting one like defaultCalendarForNewEvents to an EKCalendar object.

However, I know it's possible to programmatically create a new calendar, because I've seen iPhone app doing this (without leaving the app).

• Could it be that they use a workaround by doing some trick with an external ICS file?
• Maybe it is possible to do this by "subscribing" to a local (on the iPhone/app filesystem) generated ICS file, instead of an URL. Does anyone have any experience with this?