How to import and sync Facebook friends's birthdays to Android phone.

         You don’t visit Facebook daily, and miss birthdays of friends?  Want your android phone to remind you your friend’s birthdays?  There are lots of application on the market but you don’t need them and believe me these kind of apps run in background and drain phone's battery and resources. So possibly you should import and synchronize your facebook friends's birthdays to your android phone calendar so that you will be up to date with the birth dates.
       Following are simple few simple steps to import and synchronize facebook friends birthdays to your google calendar and then to android phone calendar.

 1.     Go to your facebook account, on home page at upper left corner, below your profile picture, there will be a link called Events. Click on it. It will open your  facebook events calendar that includes birthdays of your friends.

Facebook : Events link

    2.  On events page at upper right corner, there is Today button with settings logo. Click on settings logo and select export from the option, the way shown in picture.

Facebook : Export Events

    3. This will open 'Export Events and Birthdays' pop up.

Facebook :Copy export link 

    4.  Right click on ‘export your friends’ birthdays’ and select copy link option.

Facebook: Copy link

 5.  Now go to google calendar, that you can go by selecting calendar from top most black strip on google home page. Then on calendar at left hand panel click on other calendars option and select Add by URL.

Google Calendar : Add by URL

       

         6. Pop up for entering URL will be opened, paste the copied URL into the textbox for URL and click Add Calendar.

Google Calendar : add calendar by URL

    

   7.  Then the new calendar ‘Friends’ birthdays’ will be added to your other calendars section on google calendar. Select your favorite  color for this calendar if you want. Now you are done with importing you facebook birthdays to google calendar.

Google Calendar : Added Calendar

       

     8.  Now you need to sync your android calendar app to  google calendar. For that open Calendar application on your android phone. Make sure you have enabled Use data packet I mean an internet access.

9. Select options -> More -> Calendars, it should show you Friends’ Birthdays calendar.

 10. Set Synced, Visible to this new Calendar.

Android : set synced and visible

Android : Birthdays showed in Bold

 11. Now phone will sync this calendar from Google calendar to calendar app and friend’s birthdays will be visible on your phone.



Now you can view friends's birthdays and set notifications for them as per your needs.