Cashew is a full-fledged, feature-rich application designed to empower users in managing their finances effectively. Built using Flutter - with Drift's SQL package, and Firebase - this app offers a seamless and intuitive user experience across various devices. Development started in September 2021.
Cashew was featured on YouTube! Thanks Sam Beckman!
Cashew was featured on Google Play's Editorial 'New Apps We Love'!
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This application is available on the App Store, Google Play, GitHub and as a Web App (PWA).
Changes and progress about development is all heavily documented in GitHub commits and in the changelog
- Custom Budgets and Time Periods: Set up personalized budgets with flexible time periods, such as monthly, weekly, daily, or any custom time period that suits your financial planning needs. A custom time period is useful if you plan on setting a one-time travel budget!
- Added Budgets: Selectively add transactions to specific budgets, allowing you to focus on specific expense categories.
- Category Spending Limits per Budget: Set limits for each category within a budget, ensuring responsible spending.
- Past Budget History Viewing: Analyze your spending habits over time by accessing past budget history, enabling comparison and tracking of financial progress.
- Goals: Create spending and saving goals and put transactions towards different purchases or savings. Track your progress towards achieving your financial goals.
- Support for Different Transaction Types: Categorize transactions effectively based on types such as upcoming, subscription, repeating, debts (borrowed), and credit (lent). Each type behaves in certain ways in the interface. Pay your upcoming transactions when you're ready, or mark your lent out transactions as collected.
- Custom Categories: Create personalized categories to organize transactions according to your unique spending habits. Search through multiple icons and select the default option as expenses or income when adding transactions.
- Custom Titles: Automatically assign transactions with the same name to specific categories, saving time and ensuring consistency. These titles are stored in memory and popup when you add another transaction with a similar name.
- Search and Filters: Easily search and filter transactions based on various criteria such as date, category, amount, or custom tags, enabling quick access to information.
- Easy Editing: Long-press and swipe to select multiple budgets, edit accordingly as needed or delete multiple at once.
- Multiple Currencies and Accounts: Manage finances across different currencies and accounts with up-to-date conversion rates for accurate calculations and effortless currency conversions. The interface shows the original amount added and the converted amount to the selected account.
- Switch Accounts and Currencies with Ease: On the homepage, easily select a different account and currency and everything will be converted automatically in an instant.
- Biometric Lock: Secure budget data using biometric authentication, adding an extra layer of privacy.
- Google Login: Conveniently log in to the app using your Google account, ensuring a streamlined and hassle-free authentication process.
- Material You Design: Enjoy a visually appealing and modern interface, following the principles of Material You design for a delightful user experience.
- Custom Accent Color: Personalize the app by selecting a custom accent color that suits your style, or follow that of the system.
- Light and Dark Mode: Seamlessly switch between light and dark themes to optimize visibility and reduce eye strain.
- Customizable Home Screen: Tailor the home screen layout and widgets to display the financial information that matters most to you, providing a personalized and efficient dashboard.
- Detailed Graph Visuals: Gain valuable insights into spending patterns through detailed and interactive graphs, visualizing financial data at a glance.
- Beautiful Adaptive UI: A responsive user interface that adapts flawlessly to both web and mobile platforms, providing an immersive and consistent user experience across devices.
- Cross-Device Sync: Keep budget data synchronized across all devices, ensuring access to financial information wherever you go.
- Google Drive Backup: Safeguard budget data by utilizing Google Drive's backup functionality, allowing easy restoration of data if needed.
Discontinued: Budget Sharing (Alpha): Collaborate with family members, friends, or colleagues by sharing budgets, enabling collective tracking and management of shared expenses.
- Notifications: Stay informed about important financial events and receive timely reminders for budget goals, transactions, and upcoming due dates.
- Import CSV Files: Seamlessly import financial data by uploading CSV files, facilitating a smooth transition from other applications or platforms.
- Import Google Sheets: Seamlessly import Google Sheets tables, quickly importing many transactions from a spreadsheet.
Unsupported: Auto Email Transaction Parsing (Beta): Automatically parse transaction details from email receipts, making expense tracking effortless and efficient.
This repository contains, bundled in, modified versions of the discontinued packages listed below. They can be found in the folder /budget/packages
- https://pub.dev/packages/implicitly_animated_reorderable_list
- https://pub.dev/packages/sliding_sheet
The translations are available here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QQqt28cmrby6JqxLm-oxUXCuM3alniLJ6IRhcPJDOtk/edit?usp=sharing. If you would like to help translate, please reach out on email: dapperappdeveloper@gmail.com
- Run
budget\assets\translations\generate-translations.py - Restart the application
- To build an app-bundle Android release, run
flutter build appbundle --release
Note: required Android SDK.
- To build an IPA iOS release, run
flutter build ipa
Note: requires MacOS.
- To deploy to firebase, run
firebase deploy
Note: required Firebase.
- Create a tag for the current version specified in
pubspec.yaml git tag <version>- Push the tag
git push origin <version>- Create the release and upload binaries
- https://github.com/jameskokoska/Cashew/releases/new
deploy_and_build_windows.bat
- Deploy to Firebase and build the apk and appbundle
open_release_builds.bat
- Opens the location of the built apk and appbundle
update_translations.bat
- Downloads the latest version of Cashew translations. Runs
budget\assets\translations\generate-translations.py
adb tcpip 5555adb connect <IP>- Get the phone's IP by going to
About Phone>Status Information>IP Address
- Make any database changes to the schema and tables
- Bump the schema version
- Change
int schemaVersionGlobal = ...+1intables.dart
- Change
- Make sure you are in application root directory
cd .\budget\
- Generate database code
- Run
dart run build_runner build
- Run
- Export the new schema
- Generate schema dump for the newly created schema
- Replace
[schemaVersion]in the command below with the value ofschemaVersionGlobal - Run
dart run drift_dev schema dump lib\database\tables.dart drift_schemas//drift_schema_v[schemaVersion].json - Read more: https://drift.simonbinder.eu/docs/advanced-features/migrations/#exporting-the-schema
- Generate step-by-step migrations
- Run
dart run drift_dev schema steps drift_schemas/ lib\database\schema_versions.dart
- Run
- Implement migration strategy
- Edit
await stepByStep(...)function intables.dartand add the migration strategy for the new version migration
- Edit
- Use
getPlatform()fromfunctions.dart - Since
Platformis not supported on web, we must create a wrapper and always use this to determine the current platform
- If we want to navigate to a new page, stick to
pushRoute(context, page)function fromfunctions.dart - It handles the platform routing and
PageRouteBuilder
Walletshave been been renamed toAccountson the front-end but internally, the nameWalletis still used.
Objectiveshave been been renamed toGoalson the front-end but internally, the nameObjectivesis still used.