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SufficientlySecure / birthday-calendar

Display all contact birthdays automatically in your standard Android calendar.
https://www.schuermann.eu/android/
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Number of birthday events too high #35

Closed dschuermann closed 11 years ago

dschuermann commented 11 years ago

Original author: oho...@gmail.com (January 14, 2013 19:06:07)

What steps will reproduce the problem?

  1. use the version which adds age of the person 2. 3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead? 3 events back and 5 future event

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? 1.7 (same since 1.4)

Please provide any additional information below. In general would be not a huge issue, but when somebody synchronize the calendar, there is everyday a forced sync of all the signle events of all people. I would either prefer an option to setup eg. only upcomming year birthdays or create a repeated event (means 1 event with a frequency of 1x per year).

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/birthday-adapter/issues/detail?id=33

dschuermann commented 11 years ago

From domschuermann@gmail.com on January 15, 2013 00:44:48 As Birthday Adapter does not use the internet and thus does not consume data, it only uses ram and cpu for syncing. I think this is negligible consumption, as it is also scheduled per day with other operations on your device.

dschuermann commented 11 years ago

From oho...@gmail.com on January 15, 2013 15:59:07 When I mentioned sync of calendar, I meant a sync with other devices (eg. PC Outlook or Lotus Notes). It's not a question of performance issue. With the 8 event for each person we talk about 1600 items for sync if you have 200 people in phone book with entered birthday.

dschuermann commented 11 years ago

From domschuermann@gmail.com on January 15, 2013 16:12:58 See FAQ in-app for explanation why a sync of birthday calendar is not my intented usage:

This is not the idea of this app. As you already have all birthdays in your contacts and synchronizing these into the cloud, it would be redundant to also synchronize a calendar with the same information. Instead use tools on your desktop pc to display the birthdays from your contacts in your calendar, like Birthday Adapter does. In Thunderbird this can be done with the Thunderbirthday Add-on.

dschuermann commented 11 years ago

From oho...@gmail.com on January 15, 2013 16:15:27 Understood. Then I have to find if I can use the app. I worked in the previous versions , when with no age was the number of event limited and acceptable.