Add birthdays automatically

[natrius]

Is it possible to add the birthdays automatically? Because i don't want to think everytime i add another contact to press the button again.
It would be great if this would just be an option in the settings and if ticket the birthdays just gets imported.

[jtj9817]

@tibbi Since #742 is on the low priority for now, mind if I take a look at this Issue then? I'm not really sure what the implementation should be but if I understand it correctly:

• SimpleCalendar app is installed, Contact list of phone is retrieved by using the ContactsContract API
• When the Contact list is retrieved, scan the list and if a Contact has a "Birth Date" information available, add the Name of the Contact and their Birth Date to a list known as "Birthday Events"
• Birthday Events need to be processed; each item in the list will be processed by iterating through the list and making an API call for each item to be added as an 'Event'
• All of the above processes can be an option in Settings menu

[tibbi]

not sure what you mean with the third point. Accessing contact birthdays needs the Contacts permission, it is asked once the user triggers the "Add contact birthdays" menu item. Then birthdays could be rechecked periodically somehow in the background.

[jtj9817]

@tibbi Just rethought about the approach to the problem, seems like we can simplify it better.

• When the "Add Contact Birthdays" option is selected and the user agrees for Contacts access permission, the app will scan current list of Contacts with their Birth Date available
• After adding the current list of Contacts with their Birthdays, SimpleCalendar will prompt user if they want to "Automatically Add New Contact Birthdays"
• Once the option above has been checked, when SimpleCalendar starts up again it will scan the list for a new Contact and if that Contact item has a 'Birth Date' field on it, they will be automatically added

[tibbi]

I think that you can even skip the prompt, just sync it in the background at app start by default. But dont forget checking for the Contacts permission, the user could have revoked it. If he did, just ignore the sync silently.

[tibbi]

duplicate of #906

[natrius]

Don't wanna be annoying, but isn't it usally like: close the more recent one as duplicate? That would be #906 (4 Jun 2019) vs. this with 12 Sep 2018. Plus, this issue right here has already comments on it.

I mean, its your repo, do whatever you want, that was just a bit confusing :D

[tibbi]

I prefer having the clearer issue, without having to read too much boilerplace