When will Android have a public Calendar API?

Question

Hi. Is someone from Google able to advise when the Android SDK is likely to include a public API for reading/writing event data to the user's calendar?

Searching the forums I see that this is a much desired feature by many developers but I haven't seen any indication as to when (or even if) this need will be addressed.

Thanks in advance ...

Answer 1

according to one post on the dev group, regarding calendar access:

Definitely not for 1.6, very unlikely for 2.0, and it is probably a safe assumption that it is not public because it is likely to change in the future

http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/8bb14b62eca6b04e/

not sure what the future plans are, but there is an interesting hack to gain read access to the calendar via the undocumented api:

• Accessing the internal calendar database inside Google Android applications: http://jimblackler.net/blog/?p=151

of course if your android device is online, you can read/write through the standard calendar data api:

http://code.google.com/apis/calendar/data/2.0/developers_guide.html