olivvv59/birday

🎉 A beautiful Kotlin app to remember birthdays and events without having to open Facebook, set alarms or rely on Google Calendar

Birday

An open source app to remember birthdays and events without having to open Facebook, set alarms or rely on Google Calendar.

Introduction

This is an open source app to remember birthdays and other events in a fast, light and beautiful way. No less, no more. I had this idea considering that Google Calendar doesn't display an automatic notification the day of the birthday, and sometimes i need to remember a birthday for a person who is not in my Contacts. Also, adding too much events to the calendar makes it messy and i prefer to manage them separately. The main focus of this app is being easy to use, clean and lightweight. I'm always glad to add features, but only important and really useful features!

Translations (guide and info below)

LANGUAGE	STATUS	SPECIAL THANKS	UPDATED BY
English	complete	myself	ar-maged, Commenter25
Spanish	complete	myself	Joseahfer
Swedish	needs review	SlowNicoFish
Dutch	complete	stefanvi
Italian	complete	myself	myself
French	complete	Mattis Biton
Hungarian	needs review	Obi
German	complete	pizzapastamix	WrstFngr, AlexanderRitter02
Vietnamese	complee	Lee Huynh	dmtrilc
Russian	needs review	koterpillar
Czech	needs review	Miloš Koliáš
Polish	complete	mateusz-bak
Croatian	complete	Dominik Novosel	Dominik Novosel
Portuguese	complete	smarquespt	smarquespt
Brazilian	complete	BadJuice67	Paiusco
Romanian	complete	ygorigor	ygorigor
Traditional Chinese	complete	Still34
Catalan	needs update	retiolus
Serbian	complete	Th3Unkn0wn0n3
Ukrainian	complete	taras
Marathi	complete	Ramesh Kumar

Features

• Notification the day of the event (with selectable time)
• Additional notification up to 7 days before the event
• Fetch the existing birthdays from the contacts app, images included!
• Easily backup and restore your saved events!
• insert an event manually, just specifying a name, an optional surname, an image and a date (with optional year)
• Choose your favorite events to see detailed information about them and a countdown for each one
• Tap on an event to see every possible detail and the available actions
• The birthdays are also automagically backed up in cloud by Google Play Services when the app is installed from Play Store
• A set of stats (zodiac, average age and much more) when more than 5 events are inserted, plus an animated counter
• Easily delete, modify and share the saved events!
• Each event has a note field
• Easily hide the top cards to display the list in fullscreen
• Main list organized by months
• Quick glance row, to visualize the events in the next 10 days
• A nice searchbar, to quickly search a person in the saved events
• Quick apps launcher
• Light, dark, and system default theme
• Selectable accent (no app restart needed, 12 choices + system default)
• Shimmer effect (it can be disabled) and confetti, because why not
• Name first or surname first choice
• Notification only for favorite events
• Hide and show images
• Dark and light minimal widget
• Material You guidelines
• Beautiful animations (and animated notification icon)
• Multiwindow / freeform full support
• Animated splashscreen and app intro, dynamic layouts and more
• Small and optimized apk size
• Many languages available!

Screenshots

Download

The app is available through Google Play and F-Droid

Credits and contributions

Birday uses some open source libraries, just a few:

• Material Dialogs
• Konfetti
• App Intro
• Shimmer

Top contributors (special thanks to them!):

• Alberto Pedron for the precious advices and for contributing with many useful pull requests
• Dominik Novosel for the suggestions, for supporting the project and for the LTS version

Currently, Birday supports the languages in the above table. If you want to translate the app in any other language or update an existing translation, just contact me or send a pull request: you'll be quoted both on Github and in the Play Store description. For a detailed guide on how to translate the app, refer to the Wiki

This app was written during my free time as a training. It was first published on May 1, 2020. Many good devs helped me understanding the best practices and they taught me a lot of useful tricks. A special thank to every contributor here and on Reddit. and God bless Stack Overflow.