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Follows up a CodeRabbit note on #24.

What was wrong: if Android refused one alarm (e.g. IllegalStateException at the per-app alarm limit), AlarmScheduler.schedule threw. Over the platform channel that became a PlatformException, so sync() stopped: every dose after it got no alarm, and the Today page stayed on its spinner. A reboot re-arm stopped part way the same way. (The "recorded as armed" part of the note wasn't real: the registry write already came after the call.)

Fix:

  • AlarmScheduler.schedule catches the failure, logs it, skips the registry, returns false. Covers every caller: sync, boot re-arm, snooze.
  • Dart counts refused alarms per sync. Today shows "Android refused N alarms" with Retry, because a refused alarm never rings and nothing else would say so before the dose is missed.

Checked: flutter analyze clean, flutter test (36, one new), debug APK builds. Not forced on a device: a refusal is hard to trigger.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Today now warns when upcoming dose alarms could not be scheduled and offers a Retry action.
    • Alarm scheduling results are reported to the app, which can track alarms that were not set.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Failed alarm setup no longer records the alarm as scheduled.
    • If a snooze alarm cannot be scheduled, the alarm continues ringing and an error message appears; the pending action is not recorded.

AlarmScheduler.schedule now catches a RuntimeException from setAlarmClock or the
inexact fallback (e.g. IllegalStateException at Android's per-app alarm limit),
logs it, doesn't record the alarm as armed, and returns false. Before, the throw
became a PlatformException that ended sync() early (later doses unarmed, Today
stuck loading) and ended a reboot re-arm part way.

Dart counts refused alarms per sync and Today warns, since a refused alarm never
rings and nothing else would say so before the dose is missed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Walkthrough

Android alarm scheduling now returns a success result or logs a runtime failure. Flutter propagates the result, counts refused alarms during sync, and displays a warning with a retry action on Today. Refused snooze attempts leave the action unpersisted and the alarm ringing.

Changes: Alarm Refusal Handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Return alarm setup results
android/app/src/main/kotlin/dev/susiee/dosekeeper/AlarmScheduler.kt, android/app/src/main/kotlin/dev/susiee/dosekeeper/MainActivity.kt
AlarmScheduler.schedule returns true after recording an alarm. It catches RuntimeException, logs the dose ID, and returns false without recording the alarm. MainActivity forwards the result through the method channel. disarm removes the alarm and registry entry without cancelling a fallback notification.
Count and display refused alarms
lib/services/alarm_bridge.dart, lib/services/scheduler.dart, lib/ui/today_page.dart, test/widget_test.dart, AGENTS.md
AlarmBridge.scheduleDose returns the native result, using false for a null response. DoseScheduler counts refused alarms during sync. Today displays a warning and retry action when the count is greater than zero. The widget test checks true, false, and null responses; AGENTS.md records the behavior.
Handle refused snoozes
android/app/src/main/kotlin/dev/susiee/dosekeeper/AlarmActivity.kt
AlarmActivity schedules snooze alarms before it records the pending action. If any scheduling attempt fails, it disarms the successful snoozes, shows an error toast, and returns without recording the action, stopping the ringing, or closing the activity.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant DoseScheduler
  participant AlarmBridge
  participant MainActivity
  participant AlarmScheduler
  participant TodayPageState
  DoseScheduler->>AlarmBridge: scheduleDose
  AlarmBridge->>MainActivity: invoke native scheduleDose
  MainActivity->>AlarmScheduler: schedule
  AlarmScheduler-->>MainActivity: success or refusal
  MainActivity-->>AlarmBridge: scheduling result
  AlarmBridge-->>DoseScheduler: boolean result
  DoseScheduler->>DoseScheduler: count refused alarms
  TodayPageState->>DoseScheduler: read unarmedAlarms during refresh
  TodayPageState-->>TodayPageState: display warning and retry action
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Merge Risk: Low · up to d2ffb

Alarm refusal handling is mergeable with awareness that a failed data read during Retry can leave an outdated warning visible until a later successful refresh.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to d2ffb

The change improves alarm-refusal handling without an observed expansion of access to medication alarms. Remaining risk is bounded to alarm availability and recovery when scheduling or snoozing is interrupted.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The assessed change affects this installation's dose-alarm availability, native recovery records and notification lifecycle. The inspected changes do not introduce a cross-service or cross-tenant authority path.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Alarm delivery continues to use explicit component intents and immutable PendingIntents. AlarmActivity, AlarmReceiver and AlarmService remain non-exported. MainActivity and BootReceiver exports are unchanged, so source-level public method labels do not establish newly attacker-reachable alarm controls.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Normal partial-refusal compensation improves failure containment, but it is not a transactional commit across Android alarms and preferences. Interruption after scheduling can precede pending-action persistence. This reverses a pre-existing ordering window; because Dart ignores SNOOZE events and keeps the dose pending, a missing SNOOZE event alone does not demonstrate a new security or dose-status integrity failure.
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199-212: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Heavy lift

Add coverage for the refusal count and warning.

The test checks the bridge result but not the scheduler count or Today warning. Add tests for mixed refused and successful alarms, and for Retry clearing the warning after a successful sync.

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Review comment at @test/widget_test.dart around lines 199 - 212:
Extend widget coverage beyond AlarmBridge.scheduleDose’s boolean result: test a
mixed batch of refused and successful alarms and assert the scheduler count
reflects only successfully armed alarms. Add Today screen coverage that verifies
the warning appears after a refusal and that using Retry followed by a
successful sync clears it; reuse the existing scheduler and Retry flows.

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@android/app/src/main/kotlin/dev/susiee/dosekeeper/AlarmScheduler.kt:
- Around line 78-83: Update the snooze flow in AlarmActivity to handle a failed
alarm schedule instead of treating it as success: use the failure result from
AlarmScheduler to show the user a failure signal and keep the ringing activity
open so they can retry. Ensure the alarm is not stopped when scheduling the
snooze fails.

Review comments at @lib/ui/today_page.dart:
- Around line 116-123: Update `refresh` so it refreshes `_unarmed` immediately
after sync, before any later adherence reads, ensuring Retry displays the
current alarm count even if a subsequent read fails. Handle errors from the
refresh flow so they do not remain unhandled.

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- Around line 199-212: Extend widget coverage beyond AlarmBridge.scheduleDose’s
boolean result: test a mixed batch of refused and successful alarms and assert
the scheduler count reflects only successfully armed alarms. Add Today screen
coverage that verifies the warning appears after a refusal and that using Retry
followed by a successful sync clears it; reuse the existing scheduler and Retry
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Comment on lines +116 to +123
if (_unarmed > 0)
_Warning(
text: _unarmed == 1
? 'Android refused 1 alarm. That dose won\'t ring.'
: 'Android refused $_unarmed alarms. Those doses won\'t ring.',
actionLabel: 'Retry',
onAction: refresh,
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Update the alarm count before the later reads.

If an adherence read fails after sync changes the count, Retry leaves the old warning visible and the error unhandled. Update _unarmed after sync and handle refresh errors.

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Update `refresh` so it refreshes `_unarmed` immediately after sync, before any
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subsequent read fails. Handle errors from the refresh flow so they do not remain
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Not changing this here. If any later read in refresh() throws, setState never runs at all, so moving _unarmed earlier wouldn't show anything new: the screen keeps whatever it had (or the spinner on first load). That's a general refresh() error-handling gap that predates this PR, not something this change adds.

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@SusieeTheLinuxUser Understood. I’ll leave this change out of the PR. If a later read fails, the alarm count can remain stale or hidden.

Would you like me to open a follow-up issue for refresh error handling?


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AGENTS.md: # DoseKeeper — continuation brief
Read this, then `README.md` before acting.

Source excerpt:
# DoseKeeper

## Why it's built this way

A medication reminder that doesn't fire is worse than no reminder, because you
trusted it. Everything here is shaped around that:

- **The app surfaces its own failure modes.** If exact alarms are blocked or battery
  optimisation is enabled, the Today screen warns you and links straight to the fix.

You are interacting with an AI system.

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If Android refuses the snooze alarm, stopping the ringing would mean the dose
never rings again. Now the alarm keeps ringing and a toast says the snooze
failed. The SNOOZE outcome is only recorded once the snooze is armed.

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SusieeTheLinuxUser and others added 2 commits November 7, 2026 00:03
If some snooze alarms arm and another is refused, the screen keeps ringing,
so the armed ones are cancelled again. Otherwise tapping Taken next would ring
them once more in 10 minutes. AlarmScheduler.disarm cancels only the alarm,
not a ringing fallback notification.

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