I am using EventKit in my app and would like to find out what account a calendar belongs to.
The iPhone Calendar app shows all calendars grouped by account, with the account name for instance 'myname@me.com', or 'Gmail myname'. Where can I get those account names from?
I can get a list of EKCalendars from the EKEventStore and I can get each calendars title, but I have no idea where to get the account name from. Is there an official API for this? How else would I retrieve this information? Some apps on the App Store do display the account names, so there must be a way (that also slips through the approval process...)
Thanks, Thomas
Update: Somewhere else I found references to a private property. Before I start looking for that myself, does anybody know what the name of that property is?
Elsewhere people also suggested parsing the description (which includes the account), but that's not a very safe or elegant way, so I'd like to avoid doing that.
Update 2: I did find out that there is a private property (and its name) and it seems to work fine.
I've looked through Apple's documentation and the account name doesn't seem to be available through the public API. Your app will be instantly rejected if you use a private property, so I suppose those other apps on the App Store use the desciption parsing method.
I suggest you post a bug report with Apple and request they make the account name available through the public API. Until they do (if they do), I think your only option is to parse the description if you want your app on the App Store