Android: How to send an ics File to apps on the Phone

Question

I am creating an .ics File in my Activity. I want to send the created .ics File to a calendar app on the phone, so the app can import the events.

Here is my code for the Intent:

`Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
        intent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_APP_CALENDAR);
        intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, Uri.fromFile(icsfile));
        startActivity(Intent.createChooser(intent, "How do you want to share?"));`    

Unfortunately no calender apps are shown in the chooser.

Answer 1

Google Calendar, at least, does not support responding to ACTION_SEND.

So, try:

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
intent.setDataAndType(Uri.fromFile(icsfile), "application/ics");
startActivity(intent);

(and, eventually, switch to using FileProvider as opposed to Uri.fromFile(), as that does not work on Android 7.0+ for apps with a targetSdkVersion of 23 or higher)