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[APP][RELEASE!] Best Wishes - Automate Birthday Wishes to Facebook

I'm the developer of "Best Wishes". It is an application that will pull down your list of friends from Facebook along with their birthdays. It neatly organizes the birthdays into an intelligent list. Once your friends are loaded you can configure Best Wishes to post notifications when birthdays occur. You can put a widget on your desktop to see upcoming birthdays too.
The real reason I developed the app was to automate birthday wishes. I don't visit Facebook very often, so I wanted a way to automate birthday wishes. The automation is very customizable. You can configure a time range for it to post. The app will randomly pick a time within the range. It comes with 10 "canned" birthday wishes. You can edit these "canned" wishes or add your own. You can select the ones you want and it will pick from them randomly. You can specify custom wishes for your close friends. Plus it is easy to exclude or include which friends you want to send automated messages.
Of course, not all friends put their birthday info on Facebook and some have their permissions set so that 3rd party apps can't access the birthday information. For these cases I've added manual entry so you can use Best Wishes for all your friends.
Check it out and let me know what you guys think. I'm open to feedback and feature suggestions. The full version costs $0.99. The Lite version is free.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.unchained.bestwishes
MOD EDIT: FREE VERSION CAN BE FOUND HERE
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.unchained.bestwisheslite
The main difference between the lite and full version is the level of customization that you can perform. The full version allows you to enter custom birthday wishes, include/exclude friends, and it has ten pre-defined birthday wishes that are editable. The lite version only has one birthday wish ("Happy Birthday!"). The rest of the functionality is the same.
Thanks!

Against the rules to have paid apps up without a free version or trial. Better fix that before you get reported.
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I didn't realize that was a rule. I'll put up a free version to go with this when I get home tonight.

ethridgt said:
I didn't realize that was a rule. I'll put up a free version to go with this when I get home tonight.
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Cool, just looking out for you.
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I added the free version. Let me know what you think.

Cool application, I purchased it from the marketplace. Works well on my phone, but craps out hard on my tablet. Just a heads up. I sent the crash report in, if it's any use.
Best of luck!

Great app! So much more useful than Facebook for birthdays. Love all of the customization in the paid version!

I love the idea, but have a question. Often when I use an app to post to facebook, there is a little tag line that says it was posted via a particular program. Is this going to do something like "Happy Birthday, Phil" "automatically posted by Best Wishes"? I love the idea of automatic posts, but don't like the idea of them knowing that it was some automatic process and not personal.

I have a couple of quick suggestions. First, can you ad an option to search and/or sort the list of people by date so that you don't have to scroll through hundreds of names to find the right person? Second, I see canned messages containing the person's first name. Can you add an option to replace the person's Facebook name with something else? Third, how about including their age, if known, in a greeting?
For example, I have a friend "Worker Bee" and I'd love the canned message to say "Happy 50th Birthday, Brian!" and I'd like to be able to find him in the list by searching on "Brian" *or* "Worker Bee" and see the list sorted by first name, last name, or birth date. Make sense?

Yes, it will say "post by Best Wishes" at the bottom of your post. I didn't like that either when I first realized that. Facebook does that for accountability reasons. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to know if you posted it or some third party application posted it. There isn't any way to remove that message.
I don't see it as a problem though. I made sure that Best Wishes has the capability to just remind you and then make it easy to post from within Best Wishes. If you click on the person it will take you directly to their profile page. If you have the Facebook app installed it will take you to their page in the Facebook app. If you don't have it installed it will take you to their page via the browser. From their you can post your birthday wish.
The privacy constraints can be a pain, but I guess they are there because enough people requested them.

djeaton, thanks for the feedback.
First, can you ad an option to search and/or sort the list of people by date so that you don't have to scroll through hundreds of names to find the right person?
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You can search and it is sorted by date. The date sorting expands the current month by each day you birthdays. Then there is one group per month. You can quickly collapse the groups to jump around the list.
Can you add an option to replace the person's Facebook name with something else?
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I didn't think this would be useful as a canned phrase because it would be too specific. I had envisioned that most people would just create a custom birthday wish. I will keep this in mind though. It is definitely a possibility for a future version.
Third, how about including their age, if known, in a greeting? For example, I have a friend "Worker Bee" and I'd love the canned message to say "Happy 50th Birthday, Brian!"
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I like this idea. I'll probably add it.
I'd like to be able to find him in the list by searching on "Brian" *or* "Worker Bee" and see the list sorted by first name, last name, or birth date. Make sense?
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You can search now. Just click the search icon in the top right. If you type Brian it will show any friend with Brian anywhere in their name. The list is sorted by last name then first name.
The most friends I have seen are around 1200. The average person seems to have around 300. Extensive sort order can be added. I decided it was overkill for this first version. I'll keep in mind for a future revision.
Thanks again for all the feedback!

That's good. Just didn't want it to look like a robo-post with no personal touch. Speaking of touching the person and going to their page, could you add the option to long-press on them and be taken to their configuration page where you can enter custom greetings or select a canned one?

Yeah, I'll add that in the next release. It will be quick to add the long press options. Thanks for the feedback djeaton.

I'm constantly forgetting to wish my friends a happy birthday so this app is a brilliant for me!

What makes this app any different then this FREE app that looks like it does everything your PAID app does???
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.zixstudio.fbbirthdayscheduler

The applications are very similar, however my application edges it out in several ways.
Best Wishes:
- Allows you to pick a time range which is used to pick a random time each day to post your birthday message. This randomness is useful to make the automation more natural.
- Uses intelligent grouping to make the list of birthdays easier to read.
- Has more pre-defined birthday messages.
- Looks better (in my opinion) because it includes your friends profile picture.
Let me just say, this is from quick inspection. I have not done extensive testing of this other application.
I guess it just depends on what you like. The Lite version of Best Wishes is also free and it has most of the features above.
Hope that helps. I appreciate the feedback!

Thanks!!!! .. Seems really nice application....

ethridgt said:
The applications are very similar, however my application edges it out in several ways.
Best Wishes:
- Allows you to pick a time range which is used to pick a random time each day to post your birthday message. This randomness is useful to make the automation more natural.
- Uses intelligent grouping to make the list of birthdays easier to read.
- Has more pre-defined birthday messages.
- Looks better (in my opinion) because it includes your friends profile picture.
Let me just say, this is from quick inspection. I have not done extensive testing of this other application.
I guess it just depends on what you like. The Lite version of Best Wishes is also free and it has most of the features above.
Hope that helps. I appreciate the feedback!
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Thanks for answering my question. I'll give your app a run and share the link to the market with my friends as well........help spread the word..hahaha

much needed i too dont visit FB much and miss out on wishing bday wishes...thanks...

First off very nice app, good idea and nice clean interface.
Now one problem I have and tours that a lot of my friends don't have their birthday in the app but their facebook does, any reason you know of why this would be happening? I don't feel like going through and adding their birthday manually.
A feature request would be to be able to set a custom birthday message as a generic message and not just one for a specific contact, I like ascii art lol just too make it a but different when I post happy birthday
P.s. I have the paid version

[APP][2.3+] TV Addict

Hello XDA users!. I have developed a TV series app that helps keep track of your favorite or currently watching TV series, but also notifies you of episode releases to never forget or miss an episode!
Firstly it integrates with theTVDB.com for all its information, and you can also synchronize your favorite series, your language preference and rate episodes and series.
Its main features are:
Notifications when episodes are aired so you will not miss upcoming episodes.
Automatic updates. The app automatically updates the series you add so you will always be notified about newly announced episodes.
Get informed about newly announced episodes of your added series but also get informed for upcoming series. You can also set genre filters for the upcoming series notifications in order to avoid getting notified for series that do not match your preference.
Quiet hours. If some episodes are being aired during night time, the app can be set to postpone the notifications until the specified time, to avoid waking you up!
Keeping track of your watched episodes by marking them as watched. Multiple episodes can be also marked as watched, to help users sort long running series quickly.
Images of actors and series posters are also added along with series information. These can be easily be viewed through the app and also you can save series banners in your smart phone's gallery.
View when the next episode of each series is being released quickly from the series list. Also there is an ordered list of non watched episodes, to help you keep track and organize what to watch next!
Google Play Store Page:
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.westplay.tvaddictfree
Website:
alterbytes.com
Sorry for not creating links for the above but since I'm a newbie to the forums I can't post links yet.
I hope that you find this app useful, a lot of work has been done and its main purpose is to make the life of series lovers easier.
If you would like some more features added feel free to send feedback for its future updates

Amazing
i love this app, is amazing, clean and fast, one recomendation though, can you integrate it with tvtag so we can check-in right from the app?, would be amazing if you could do that. thanks for the great work.

danielcr12 said:
i love this app, is amazing, clean and fast, one recomendation though, can you integrate it with tvtag so we can check-in right from the app?, would be amazing if you could do that. thanks for the great work.
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Thanks for your feedback! I have never used tvtag, but I will check it out and try to implement it for the next update

[APP][4.0.3+] Pie Budget - Personal financing app with Material Design

Hi guys. I wanted to drop by and let you know about a personal finance app that just launched today on Google Play called Pie Budget.
I know that you're probably thinking by now, oh great, another budgeting app for Android, there are already tens of apps like that on the platform. True. But very few have both a complex budgeting system AND are beautifully created with Material Design. Actually, I could probably count the ones with Material Design on a single hand. So this really limits the amount of apps that are really useful and also look great.
You can contact the developers either by leaving a comment in this thread, by shooting an email at [email protected] or even using the links below .
Quick Links:
Pie Budget Website: https://www.piebudget.com/
Google+ Page: https://plus.google.com/+PieBudgetApp
Google+ Community: https://plus.google.com/communities/112915166897437576907
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/PieBudgetApp
Give it a try!

Hey guys. Lead developer from Pie Budget here. Please let us know if you have any feedback for our app. We're more than glad to hear you all out.

Nice app, but i prefer showing icon of expense category rather than user photo.

hi....thanks for this, just tried this out today. Being a salaried guy, loan and fixed expense management is one of my top needs but in this I can add only transactions expenses, not keep track of investments, Loans and balances....or am i wrong

A New Social App for Android

Hi Friends,
We would like to introduce a brand-new and exciting Social shopping application to *this community.
BuyAi - Let’s go shopping together!
Website - http://www.buyai.com
Google Play Link - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.buyai.ss
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/BuyAiLtd/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel
1. Free Download
2. Works with up Android 4.0
3. It’s simple and convenient.
4. Browsing trendy items, chat with your friends while shopping online, and seamlessly split payment for easy gift-giving.
5. Sync and share your shopping experience with others within mere seconds.
6. Shop, discover and buy thousands of great products that can be shipped for free – anywhere in the world
7. Chat and share gifts and shopping ideas with your friends in real time
8. Instantly add and chat with your friends using their phone numbers, Facebook, Google+ or Twitter accounts
9. Currently available in Google Play
10. iOS version will be available by December 2015
11. Learn more about BuyAi
 www.buyai.com
 https://youtu.be/V9ImIo1gTf8
We are relatively new, still in stealth mode and registrations are invite based only. We are looking to get constructive feedback. With your support, we will elevate our App to a high quality level for both android and IOS.
Would appreciate your help to test it out!
BuyAi Development Team

download it, i think it should add a function for social, recommend exist account that could be my friends.

mia.at said:
download it, i think it should add a function for social, recommend exist account that could be my friends.
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thank you, We will update, when update, will note you. and you can add friend from your phone number, facebook, twitter, google+, you can talk with them and share with them, thank you support.

Android application for coffee lovers

Hi!
My name is Maria, I live in Minsk (Belarus)
I am a web designer and I was thinking of creating my own project for a long time
But what could I do?
I thought about the things I really like. And decided to make an application dedicated to the rich amazing drink - coffee
I collected 100 best recipes of cold coffee, hot coffee, coffee cocktails and alcohol coffee. Besides I added 25 recipes of wonderful bakery with coffee.
It was not so easy but I am proud of the collection.
I also joined great pictures to each recipe for you to see the approximate result
My husband coded the app. Together we worked hard on each detail - starting from colors and up to animations and interactions
We wanted to make an app that you will like and enjoy daily.
We wanted to share our recipes collection and our love to coffee with everyone.
Today I am happy to introduce you our application for Android OS - COFFEE WORLD
The application is absolutely free, has no ads and requires no permissions!
You can find it on Google Play, Samsung Market and Amazon
I will be happy to receive your comments and opinions to make the app even better and more usable so don't hesitate to contact me with your feedbacks!
Have a great day!!!

It's a wonderful app.! So cute and the animations are great! I wouldn't change a thing about it. If I had to, I'd say add touch feedback on the cards, and I'd change the opening animation on the coffee recipe card, something about the expanding thumbnail seems off to me. A header on the main page with a logo would be aesthetically pleasing too, as well as removing the back arrow on the front page as I don't really see it as an essential feature. All in all, you both did a great job on the app! These are just minor issues that shouldn't even be considered issues haha I'm just giving my feedback so I can help you out. It's also 5 am here and I can't sleep so I said why not ☺ I'll be keeping this with me btw the recipes seem to be real interesting
Here's the play store link so people can download it:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.coffeeworld.stolz.coffeeworld

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It's a wonderful app.! So cute and the animations are great! I wouldn't change a thing about it. If I had to, I'd say add touch feedback on the cards, and I'd change the opening animation on the coffee recipe card, something about the expanding thumbnail seems off to me. A header on the main page with a logo would be aesthetically pleasing too, as well as removing the back arrow on the front page as I don't really see it as an essential feature. All in all, you both did a great job on the app! These are just minor issues that shouldn't even be considered issues haha I'm just giving my feedback so I can help you out. It's also 5 am here and I can't sleep so I said why not I'll be keeping this with me btw the recipes seem to be real interesting
Thank you for such an informative review, I really appreciate your help
I hope you will try some of recipes and let me know what you think about them as well
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No problem. I'll definitely try some of these, I love coffee.
Will you be adding more recipes in future updates?

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No problem. I'll definitely try some of these, I love coffee.
Will you be adding more recipes in future updates?
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Sure, we will add new recipes periodically
At the moment we try to make the app more usable and attractive

A "Favorites" feature would be nice too. Maybe like a little star option so people can go back to the recipes that they like. It'd be a nice addition to fill in that last empty spot in the front page

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A "Favorites" feature would be nice too. Maybe like a little star option so people can go back to the recipes that they like. It'd be a nice addition to fill in that last empty spot in the front page
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You are totally right, and this is the exact feature that we are adding right now the update will be available tomorrow