iOS 17 issues: unable to request permissions

[RhysTowey]

I am running iOS 17 beta with XCode 15 beta and i'm getting issues when requesting permissions using this library. Works fine with iOS 16. Seems as if Apple have changed the Calendar permissions API on iOS 17:
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/eventkit/accessing_calendar_using_eventkit_and_eventkitui#4250785

Environment

react: 17.0.2
react-native: 0.67.2
react-native-calendar-events: 2.2.0

Steps to Reproduce

Added the following to Info.plist

  <key>NSCalendarsUsageDescription</key>
  <string>This app requires access to the calendar</string>
  <key>NSCalendarsFullAccessUsageDescription</key>
  <string>This app requires access to the calendar</string>

(I've tried using just either one but same result)

import RNCalendarEvents from "react-native-calendar-events";

Requesting permissions:

 RNCalendarEvents.requestPermissions((readOnly = false)).then(response => {
            console.log(response);
 });

Checking permissions:

RNCalendarEvents.checkPermissions(false).then(async (response) => {
            console.log(response);
});

Actual Behavior

Requesting permissions response:

Error: authorization request error

Checking permissions response:

undetermined

[andrejguran]

if the library is not updated until new iOS is released (probably 12th Sept) you can use this commit that fixes calendar and gives full permission on request: andrejguran@f876567

[RhysTowey]

if the library is not updated until new iOS is released (probably 12th Sept) you can use this commit that fixes calendar and gives full permission on request: andrejguran@f876567

This works perfectly, thank you!

[taschik]

@RhysTowey any plans to release something before the official release on 9/18 so we can get this shipped before users start updating?

[RhysTowey]

@andrejguran could you please submit a pull request for your fix? I'm hoping @wmcmahan can approve it soon.

[andrejguran]

@RhysTowey it's more complicated than that. New apple logic has 2 modes fullAccess / writeOnly while Android has fullAccess / readOnly. This lib was written to support both Android modes so adding 3rd writeOnly mode would need some thinking and design changes to the library which I think the maintainer should address.

Since for our needs we never need writeOnly mode we just quickly patched the lib and for the same reason we don't plan to implement the writeOnly mode and submit a PR.

[mysport12]

@andrejguran thank you for the iOS17 permission changes!! @RhysTowey I ran with those and went a bit further to implement the writeOnly functionality on my fork. I too only need full access so I have not tested it out, but could provide a starting point. Note though that I made a number of other changes including some breaking ones to unify the API across iOS and Android for our use case so its not a direct plug and play.
mysport12/react-native-calendar-events

[jakehasler]

I've tried working off of both the aforementioned branches, and I'm still having an issue where It's not prompting me for permissions and I'm always getting 'denied' returned from the requestPermissions function. My device doesn't have my app denied in the iOS privacy settings, and I've deleted/re-installed and even restarted my phone. Are any of y'all seeing this too?

[mysport12]

@jakehasler Have you added the new NSCalendarsFullAccessUsageDescription permission to your Info.plist?

[jakehasler]

Welp, that was it. I had the original permission but had neglected to add the new one. All is good. Thanks so much @mysport12.

[malwatte]

Appreciate if a new version can be released with the fix

[ziarno]

is this going to be fixed? the last commit was a year ago, is this library maintained?