Show birthdays from contacts database

[mueller-ma]

Currently: "foo bar (*1900)"
Probably better: "117 foo bar (*1900)"

[jspricke]

We neither have the information that it's a birthday entry nor is there a standardized format where to put the year of birth and I haven't found a hint on how to do it in icalendar either. In conclusion, I don't think it's possible to do without putting in lots of assumptions about the users intention and then I don't think we should do it.

[mueller-ma]

I used aCalender and it looked up the birthdates in the local contacts

[jspricke]

that's an independant feature, pull requests welcome.

[guest4711]

You may use birthday adapter for it: Birthday Adapter (Birthday Calendar Adapter) - https://f-droid.org/app/org.birthdayadapter

[QAQDE]

You may use birthday adapter for it: Birthday Adapter (Birthday Calendar Adapter) - https://f-droid.org/app/org.birthdayadapter

cheers mate :)

[Codain]

We neither have the information that it's a birthday entry nor is there a standardized format where to put the year of birth and I haven't found a hint on how to do it in icalendar either. In conclusion, I don't think it's possible to do without putting in lots of assumptions about the users intention and then I don't think we should do it.

Is there any change on this regard 5.5 years later? Maybe an informal widespread standard among the users of this app? For instance Etar Calendar is shipped with a fork of LineageOS Contacts which offers birthdays support on /e/OS. Would be cool to have them synced.

[mueller-ma]

I solved the issue by syncing my calendar and contacts with a server that creates an additional read-only calendar "birthdays".

[natrius]

I would like to add: I used simple-calendar until now (The developer sold his apps to a company known to include commercials so i guess more people will join here) where there is a simple slider and it seems it created a local calendar for that issue. In Etar in the settings i have account_name_local with one calendar calendar_displayname_local that seems to include the entries imported from the contacts with the entry named Name Surname's Birthday.

You could download "Fossify Calendar" (a fork from simple calendar) to check yourself.

EDIT: While i don't think a "This person will get XY years" is neccessary, it would be a nice addition.