Thanks Mark. I am looking a bit more, but it does seem I could at
best stumble upon a similarly fragile mechanism that would encompass
another phone/calendar app or two.
I am confused why such a flexible network of high-level inter-app
communication would be established, and then sawhorses placed across
the on ramps. I know time and testing resources are at a premium, but
blanketing the earth with a variety of phones that belie their
seemingly common platform undercuts the vision substantially.
tone
On Dec 24, 11:33 am, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote:
> DulcetTone wrote:
> > My app wants to whisk the user to the "create new event" composition
> > window of his Calendar app, initializing begin time, end time, title
> > and description text for the event, but then leaving him able to see
> > these values and optionally alter them before saving (or discarding)
> > the event using the oridinary means available to him from within the
> > Calendar's create new event activity.
>
> > HOWEVER...
>
> > My code which works dandy on my own dev phone (indeed, on any phone
> > running stock Android Calendar to the bone) fails on the HTC Hero.
> > The issue is that the Hero has been "improved" by use of a non-
> > standard Calendar app and my means of doing this is therefore failing.
>
> > I wonder if someone can outline a more generic means I can use to say
> > "tell whatever the user's preferred Calendar app is to create a new
> > event, seeding the effort with these key/value pairs".
>
> > Here is my present code:
>
> > Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_INSERT) ;
>
> > // the HTC anti-Hero does not have a class named
> > "com.android.calendar.EditEvent" :(
> > intent.setClassName
> > ("com.android.calendar","com.android.calendar.EditEvent");
>
> > intent.putExtra("beginTime", calObject.getTimeInMillis());
> > // make it 15 minutes duration
> > intent.putExtra("endTime", calObject.getTimeInMillis() + (1000 * 60 *
> > 15));
>
> > intent.putExtra("title", "dentist appointment");
> > intent.putExtra("description", "this would be the additional text
> > describing the event");
>
> There is no public API for that in the SDK. The technique you are using
> goes past the bounds of the SDK (as evidenced by references to
> "com.android.calendar"), and therefore may fail with some devices, with
> newer versions of Android, with third-party calendar apps, etc.:
>
> http://www.androidguys.com/2009/12/14/code-pollution-reaching-past-th...
>
> Now, it would be nice if there were a consistent API for this, either in
> the SDK or simply agreed to by calendar implementers. I'm not completely
> clear how to try to arrange such coordination, though.
>
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