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ioscalendarekeventcustom-url

Launch app from calendar event

I've seen similar question here. But it doesn't work for me. I've added my url scheme with calendar event's url property. It's pretty cool to see scheme url appeared in event's url row. But I couldn't tap on url(url scheme) as like normal url like www.google.com.

code for adding url to EKEvent

EKEvent *event  = [EKEvent eventWithEventStore:eventStore];
event.title     = @"Event Test For adding url";
NSString *customURL = @"sampleEventappScheme://";
event.URL = [NSURL URLWithString:customURL];

After event added to calendar event, see screenshot for better understanding.

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Note: If I try to launch app with safari using this scheme, It's perfectly worked. So there's no issue with scheme configuration.

Solution

  • I've resolved this issue by just extend url by event title with our app url scheme. ie. We just make it as url that is enough. 

    NSString *customURL = @"sampleEventappScheme://title=eventadd";

    Brief explanation:

    This is normal url : http://www.google.com. Here http is url scheme. As like that, in above app url, sampleEventappScheme is url scheme. When we try to hit this url, system will see scheme lookup table, if we already register our scheme, then it will switch to our app.