Adding attendees when creating an event

[GlennHendriksen]

Hello there,

I have a problem with attendees. I'm creating calendar events for a flutter app I'm building. The user can select a person that he wants to schedule a meeting with, the app creates an event in the users calendar. Now I'm at the point that I want to add the selected person as an attendee so that the calendar event will be send to this person, and the selected person can accept/deny the invitation.

My problem is the following: I can't add attendees based on their e-mail address. The Attendee class only has a name property and (as far as I have tested) doesn't add anything to the actual event when I check the android calendar. Are there any plans to support this? Or am I doing something wrong?
This functionality sort of "makes or breaks" the plugin for me.

[MaikuB]

We could potentially look at this in the future. Feel free to submit a PR

[MaikuB]

Just a follow-up on this, it's not possible to add attendees, at least not on iOS. See here for documentation about this

[thanhhuan1990]

Just a follow-up on this, it's not possible to add attendees, at least not on iOS. See here for documentation about this

Actually, now I can create an event with attendees by two step:

1. Create event by code from this package.
2. Insert or edit attendees for iOS and android by my native code.
   Android: ContentResolver + CalendarContract.
   iOS: EKParticipant + ekEvent!.setValue(attendees, forKey: "attendees")

Thanks for your response.

[MaikuB]

Thanks for the info, we know it can be done in Android and did recently come across that way you mentioned for iOS

[MaikuB]

@thanhhuan1990 what versions of iOS did you run the code on? there have been accounts of this approach not working in the past, which is a concern https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30627694/modifying-ekparticipants-attendees-in-eventkit-like-sunrise

[thanhhuan1990]

I'm not sure for all iOS version, but I released my application on Testflight for my team member (near 30 members), they use iPhone from 5s ~ X, and no problem happen with them until now.
If you found any issue about this, please let me know, thanks.

[MaikuB]

This should be in the latest release