Birthday Adapter

[DominikMember]

Here is my new app: Birthday Adapter
One special thing about this: I released it for 1 € to Google Play, but it is licensed as GPLv3. When it arrives in F-Droid I will promote F-Droid as an alternative market to get it for free

Birthday Adapter provides birthdays, anniversaries, and other events from your contacts as a real calendar, which is displayed in your standard Android calendar application. To my knowledge, this is the first implementation that implements birthdays as a real calendar integrated in the Android calendar. All other apps only displays their own lists but have no real integration!

see: http://code.google.com/p/birthday-adapter/
source: https://gitorious.org/birthday-adapter

[CiaranGMember]

Added.

FYI, your google code site says GPLv3, the gitorious one says Apache2. I went with the former as that matches the COPYING file in the source tree – correct me if that’s wrong. Thanks

Also, congratulations on being the first ever person to have an apk build output with a space in the filename, making me fix a regular expression in the build script.

[DominikMember]

I didn’t saw your answer on this thread until now

Thanks for your information on the license. It is GPLv3. I changed it on the gitorious page.
And of course I did that space on purpose to test your build scripts

[tetris4Member]

For some reason this is the only application Fdroid can’t let me install on my phone (geeksphone zero). Both versions available are greyed out. Are there any qualifications for it? Do I need to have any google apps installed? Or a registered account?

[DominikMember]

Do you have Android 4 ICS? Birthday Adapter is only for Android 4.

[tetris4Member]

Yeah I was about to edit my post to say just that, but you responded fast. =)
So no way for it to work on Android 2.3.7? =(

[DominikMember]

The calendar API is only public as of Android 4, thus I don’t think it will ever work on Android < 4.

[DominikMember]

Okay my last statement was wrong Thanks to Marten Gajda I just released a new Version 1.2 for Android 2.2, 2.3, 3. The code was written by him and is highly experimental. When version 1.2 arrives in FDroid, please test it and report bugs when something goes wrong!

[tetris4Member]

I was glad to see this in FDroid.

As a very good side-effect, I can now have a simple calendar too, without the need to enter a gmail account!

Thanks for this one!

[mjwMember]

The “good side-effect” tetris4 mentions is what I try to achieve. I’ve got CM9 (4.04) without Gapps and the birthday-adapter but can’t enter any events in the calendar. It says I need a Google account.

If the tool can offer a local account provider (maybe with the ability to sync/export to the sd-card) it would be interesting to the replicant project. According to their task list that’s one of the hard pieces of work.
http://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/Tasks

[DominikMember]

Thanks for this information.
I think on Android > 4, read-only calendars are possible, which I set for Birthday Adapter. This is why tetris can add new events and you not.

I also got the request for a standalone calendar on my blog, so when I find some time I will implement that.

[mjwMember]

Just wanted to mention that there are more people asking for a local sync adapter.
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=33603 (two actually )

Is there any chance this could be enhanced for local contacts? (Contact groups don’t work without account)

[DominikMember]

Local Calendars are now implemented.

See https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.sufficientlysecure.localcalendar

Please test and give feedback at https://github.com/dschuermann/local-calendar/issues

[mjwMember]

Looks promising. Do you plan to offer an apk somewhere (or distribute it through f-droid)? I don’t have access to google play and no time to learn compiling apks at the moment.

Thanks for your work!

[daithib8Moderator]

@mjw it’s a new app in the queue, which we’ll be including soon.

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