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biweekly is an iCalendar library written in Java. The project aims to provide a well documented, easy to use API for reading and writing iCalendar data.

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Code sample

Reading an iCal

String str =
"BEGIN:VCALENDAR\r\n" +
  "VERSION:2.0\r\n" +
  "PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 14.0 MIMEDIR//EN\r\n" +
  "BEGIN:VEVENT\r\n" +
    "UID:0123\r\n" +
    "DTSTAMP:20130601T080000Z\r\n" +
    "SUMMARY;LANGUAGE=en-us:Team Meeting\r\n" +
    "DTSTART:20130610T120000Z\r\n" +
    "DURATION:PT1H\r\n" +
    "RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY;INTERVAL=2\r\n" +
  "END:VEVENT\r\n" +
"END:VCALENDAR\r\n";

ICalendar ical = Biweekly.parse(str).first();

VEvent event = ical.getEvents().get(0);
String summary = event.getSummary().getValue();

Writing an iCal

ICalendar ical = new ICalendar();
  VEvent event = new VEvent();
    Summary summary = event.setSummary("Team Meeting");
    summary.setLanguage("en-us");

    Date start = ...
    event.setDateStart(start);

    Duration duration = new Duration.Builder().hours(1).build();
    event.setDuration(duration);

    Recurrence recur = new Recurrence.Builder(Frequency.WEEKLY).interval(2).build();
    event.setRecurrenceRule(recur);
  ical.addEvent(event);

String str = Biweekly.write(ical).go();

Features

Simple, intuitive API (see Examples).
Android compatibility.
Full compliance with iCalendar and vCalendar specifications (see Supported Specifications).
Supports XML and JSON formats (see Supported Specifications).
Full timezone support (uses tzurl.org for timezone definitions).
Extensive unit test coverage.
Low Java version requirement (1.6 or above).
Few dependencies on external libraries. Dependencies can be selectively excluded based on the functionality that is needed (see Dependencies).

Maven/Gradle

Maven

<dependency>
   <groupId>net.sf.biweekly</groupId>
   <artifactId>biweekly</artifactId>
   <version>0.6.8</version>
</dependency>

Gradle

implementation 'net.sf.biweekly:biweekly:0.6.8'
//use `api` if you are exposing parts of biweekly in your API

Build Instructions

biweekly uses Maven as its build tool, and adheres to its conventions.

To build the project: mvn compile
To run the unit tests: mvn test
To build a JAR: mvn package

Questions / Feedback

You have some options:

Issue tracker
Gitter chat room
Post a question to StackOverflow with ical as a tag
Email me directly: mike.angstadt@gmail.com

Please submit bug reports and feature requests to the issue tracker.

This project was born on June 23, 2013 on Sourceforge. It migrated to Github on November 22, 2015.

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