getting exception when inserting events in android calendar.

Question

i am inserting events in my android calendar. the code is following:

ContentValues event = new ContentValues();
    event.put("calendar_id", calId);
    event.put("title", "Event Title");
    event.put("description", "Event Desc");
    event.put("eventLocation", "Event Location");
    event.put("allDay", 1);
    event.put("eventStatus", 1);
    event.put("visibility", 0);
    event.put("transparency", 0);
    event.put("hasAlarm", 1);

    Date d = new Date();
    d.setHours(8);
    d.setMinutes(30);
    d.setSeconds(30);
    long startTime = d.getTime();
    d.setHours(12);
    d.setMinutes(30);
    d.setSeconds(20);
    long endTime = d.getTime();
    event.put("dtstart", startTime);
    // event.put("dtend", endTime);
    event.put("rrule", "FREQ=DAILY;WKST=SU");
    // event.put("lastDate", endTime);
    // event.put("timezone", "Asia/Karachi");
    //event.put("duration", "P3600S");

    //Calendar gmtC = new GregorianCalendar(TimeZone.getTimeZone("Asia/Karachi"));



    // event.put("transparency", 0);
    // event.put("hasAlarm", 1); // 0 for false, 1 for true
    Uri eventsUri = Uri.parse("content://calendar/events");
    Uri url = getContentResolver().insert(eventsUri, event);

i am getting the following exception:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: allDay is true but sec, min, hour are not 0.

need help!

Answer 1

you specify "allDay" as true, but you set a time with sec, min and hour. Which means for the system, taht it's not all day long... try removing either allDay or the time setting. Maybe these are opposite and contradictory.

Answer 2

The calendar GData API defines an all day event with a start time of just the date, and the end time of the day after the end of the event.

This is the data sent to google data api

<entry xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'
    xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005'&gt;

  <category scheme='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#kind'
    term='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#event'&gt;&lt;/category&gt;
  <title type='text'>Word of the Day</title>
  <gd:when startTime='2007-07-17'
    endTime='2007-07-18'></gd:when>

</entry>

Notice the start/end times do not contain any time information in them.

You CANNOT have an all day event that doesn't start at midnight. That is why you are getting the exception. hour, min, sec MUST be 0 for them on an all day event.

You can try another forum, but you will always get this answer because this is how the GData API works.