Personal Finance Protocol

This is a proposal for standards on how other apps can interact with personal finance applications.

It could be used by shopping apps to offer the user to store the transaction in a personal expense tracking database.

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Launches an activity to input and store a new record.

Type	Intent
Action	personal_finance_create_record

required parameters

title	description
amount	signed decimal optional period
date	creation date

optional parameters

data	comma separated list of keywords
reference	identifier of transaction partner

Returns a cursor to read records from.

Columns are ordered as parameters above

If an implementing app differentiates between incoming and outgoing transactions, negative amounts should represent incoming transactions.

When the user spends money, the amount is positive.

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