On 1 Oct 2013, at 12:27, Roland King <r...@rols.org> wrote: > > On 1 Oct, 2013, at 7:02 pm, Dave <d...@looktowindward.com> wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> This had reared it's ugly head again! I have been asked to add an event to >> the Calendar WITHOUT asking the user for permission as the Standard Manner. >> I basically said it couldn't be done based on feedback from here. However, >> I've was today shown this (See link below) and asked "if they can do it, why >> can't you?". >> >> http://m.gunwharf-quays.com/whats-on/policing-through-ages >> >> If you open the above link on an iPhone and then click the Add to Calendar >> button, you will that it appears to add an event to the calendar WITHOUT >> asking the user for permission! How does it manage to do it? I thought that >> the OS would intercept any Calendar access calls and show the Alert Box and >> ask the user for permission to access the Calendar, but this doesn't seem to >> be the case here. Is this because it's being run in Safari? Can I get the >> same behaviour from an iOS Native App? >> > > Yes probably because it's Safari which is trusted and the user clicking the > link is enough intent (and because it's Safari and Apple wrote it they get to > determine what constitutes user-intent). > > No you can't get that in a native iOS application. The user must consent to > any native non-Apple application accessing the calendar.
So, what's stopping me or anyone else, running this in a Web View? That would get around it, wouldn't it? Cheers Dave _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
