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- Settings → Calendars now says what is different about a calendar instead of
leaving you to guess. Ones you can only view — a subscribed calendar, a
calendar shared with you read-only — are marked Read-only ([#76]). - Calendars your device isn't syncing are marked Not synced, moved to the
bottom of their account and left without a switch. None of their events are on
the device, so the switch they used to have could not have shown you anything
— the calendar simply looked broken. They are no longer offered when you pick
a calendar for a new or an imported event either: an event saved there would
never reach the account. Whether an account syncs a calendar stays that
account's own app's decision ([#78]). - The birthday and anniversary calendars Calendula fills from your contacts are
marked Filled from your contacts, which is why they can't be picked for a
new event: anything you put there would be removed again on the next sync.
Deleting one is held back while special dates are switched on — Calendula
would simply create it again — and the calendar's editor says so; turn the
feature off under Settings → Special dates and the delete works as usual
([#76]). - The calendar picker in the event form and in the .ics import screen now ends
with a "Missing a calendar?" row that opens Settings → Calendars, where
those marks then explain why a calendar isn't offered ([#76]). - The agenda widget's text size is yours to set. Settings → Widgets & tiles →
Agenda widget size offers Small, Medium, Large and Extra large, replacing the guess
the widget used to make from its own measurements. Small is what it looks like
today, so nothing changes until you turn it up ([#51]). - A repeating event now shows you its next few dates, not just a description of
the rule. Both the preset list and the custom recurrence picker carry a
Next: line — "Next: 30 Jul, 6 Aug, 13 Aug" — under the rule they would
save. A phrase like "monthly" on the 31st, or "every 2 weeks on Mon & Fri",
can mean something other than it sounds like, and only the dates say so. A
rule that can never fire says that instead ([#69]). - The event visibility options now say who they affect. Public, Private
and Confidential each carry a line about what other people on a shared
calendar see — the part the four words on their own leave out ([#69]).
Changed
- Settings has been reorganised so each setting sits where you would look for
it. One long undifferentiated list is now three labelled groups — Look &
behaviour, Data, and App — whose rows open sub-screens and say what they do
rather than only naming themselves. Appearance, Views, New event form,
Notifications and the new Widgets & tiles are separate screens now, so the
settings for a calendar view are no longer mixed in with the ones for the
app's colours or for the home-screen widgets ([#69]). - Settings that are hard to picture from their name now show you what they do.
The week-start picker rearranges a real month grid as you choose, the
past-events setting previews a sample agenda day for Show, Dim and Hide, the
font pickers set a specimen line in the face you are choosing, and the Agenda
range options carry the dates each one actually covers. Options that follow
the system additionally name which way they currently fall ([#69]). - Backup & restore is now its own Settings entry instead of living inside
the calendar manager, where it was easy to miss — keeping a copy of your
calendars is a different question from which calendars you have. The calendar
manager keeps a row pointing to it, and nothing about how backup or automatic
backup works has changed ([#69]). - Calendula's source code now lives on Codeberg, where its issues already
were. The Source code and License links in Settings → About point
there, so reporting a bug and reading the code no longer land on two different
sites. Nothing about the app itself changes, and the F-Droid repository is
unaffected.
Fixed
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A month-grid widget stays a month grid, and draws all seven days again. Since
2.16.0 a placed month widget could redraw itself as the agenda widget a little
after any change to your events, and could draw only about four day columns
with the last one cut off part-way through. Both came from the release build
merging the two widgets into a single class, so Android could no longer tell
which of them a widget on your home screen was — and the month grid was handed
the wrong widget's measurements to lay its columns out against ([#89], [#103]). -
The back gesture on Settings → Views returns to Settings instead of
leaving Settings altogether and dropping you on the calendar. Special dates
did the same ([#81]). -
The dots standing in for the events that didn't fit a day in the month view
now dim with everything else when Dim completed events is on. A past day
with four or more events kept its last events at full strength while the rest
faded ([#79]). -
Two accounts that happen to share a name — a Google account and a DAVx5
account for the same address, say — are no longer merged into one group.
They were listed together in Settings → Calendars and in the drawer's filter,
which also meant the group's source icon and its "manage in app" button could
send you to the wrong app, "toggle all" spanned both accounts at once, and
collapsing one collapsed the other. Where a name really is shared, each group
now names the app it comes from ([#77]). -
In the month view's Split style, the new-event button now starts on the
day you have selected. It always started on today, whichever day was selected
and listed below the grid ([#87]). -
Search results now show an all-day event's real date. West of UTC — anywhere in
the Americas, say — a search hit was dated one day early, disagreeing with the
day the month, week and agenda views file the same event under ([#82]). -
Reminders no longer depend on Android telling Calendula when they are due.
Calendula now works out each reminder's time itself and sets its own alarm for
it. On some phones — Samsung's among them — the system's calendar storage never
sends the signal a calendar app is meant to wake up on, and no amount of
battery or notification settings helps: the reminder is simply never announced.
None of that is visible from inside an app that waits to be told, which is why
it took a second pass to find ([#75]).Reminders also survive things that used to lose them quietly. After a restart
or an app update Calendula re-arms its alarms, and a reminder whose moment
passed while the phone was off still arrives, as long as the event has not
ended yet. -
All-day reminders now arrive at the time you chose in Settings →
Notifications, on every occurrence. A yearly birthday could drift an hour
either way depending on daylight saving, and all-day reminders on calendars
from an account fired in the middle of the night instead of in the morning
([#75]). -
Reminders now arrive for every calendar you have switched on. A calendar that
was hidden at system level — switched off in another calendar app, or never
switched on after being added — still showed its events and listed their
reminders in Calendula, but never notified: Android only schedules reminder
alarms for calendars marked visible, and Calendula kept its own separate
on/off list that had no say in it. There is now one switch: Settings →
Calendars turns a calendar on or off for the whole device, so what you see
and what reminds you can no longer disagree ([#75]).Calendars you had switched off in Calendula are switched off here too on first
launch. Calendars that were already off — hidden in another calendar app, or
never switched on after being added — stay off, and Calendula says so once
rather than quietly switching them on for every app on your device; you can
turn any of them back on in Settings → Calendars.If you gave Calendula read-only access to your calendars, the switch still
works: your choice is kept in the app until it can be written.The drawer's filter is unchanged and still app-only: hiding a calendar there
tidies your view without silencing its reminders.
Downloads
- Settings → Calendars now says what is different about a calendar instead of