iOS – Event Kit programming listen to notifications

Question

I want to observe changes to the Calendar application so I register for the EKEventStoreChangedNotification notification. But do I need to have an EKEventStore object "alive" for me to receive this notification? I'm thinking I'm initializing the EKEventStore object in on view controller to retrieve some events. And then I will pop this view controller of the navigation stack and the view controller will be deallocated thus the EKEventStore object will be deallocated.

Answer 1

No, you don't need to keep the EKEventStore object alive as you are already registering EKEventStoreChangedNotification using EKEventStore object named eventStore

[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter]addObserver:self selector:@selector(storeChanged:)
                              name:EKEventStoreChangedNotification  object:eventStore];

Refer this for more clearance of your doubt

Answer 2

For swift 3.x, use like below

NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self, selector: #selector(ViewController.storeChanged(_:)), name: NSNotification.Name.EKEventStoreChanged, object: eventStore)
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//Method
func storeChanged(_ nsNotification: NSNotification) {
//do your stuff
}