{"id":2264,"date":"2014-01-04T14:32:45","date_gmt":"2014-01-04T14:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=2264"},"modified":"2024-03-22T16:18:42","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T16:18:42","slug":"add-calendar-event-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=2264","title":{"rendered":"Add Calendar Event Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I created a very simple Android app that launches the Calendar app, at the New Event screen, with the start time pre-filled as the time on your device.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.glaringnotebook.acen\" target=\"_BLANK\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/developer.android.com\/images\/brand\/en_generic_rgb_wo_60.png\" alt=\"Get it on Google Play\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nAdd Calendar Event Now<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>I wonder why the Calendar widget doesn&#8217;t have a New Event\/Add Event button. That annoys me, too!<\/p>\n<p>It only works with the Calendar app that came with Ice-cream Sandwich onwards, though, so you won&#8217;t be able to install this on a pre-Ice-cream Sandwich device.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Data Safety and Privacy Policy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This app only collects the current device time, then asks Android OS to create an empty calendar event using the Intent system, and inserts the time that was collected. It does not read the Calendar entries.<\/p>\n<p>As for my other app on the Google Play Store:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1578\">My first Android app live \u2013 DigiTech Patch Viewer!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I created a very simple Android app that launches the Calendar app, at the New Event screen, with the start time pre-filled as the time on your device. Add Calendar Event Now I wonder why the Calendar widget doesn&#8217;t have a New Event\/Add Event button. That annoys me, too! It only works with the Calendar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-general","category-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2264"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12248,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264\/revisions\/12248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}