clockula/docs/ARCHITECTURE.md

Clockula — architecture

How Clockula is built today, after M3. Where something does not exist yet, this document says so and names the milestone that builds it, rather than describing a plan as though it were code. PLAN.md is the "why"; this is the "what, right now".

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1. The thesis

Clockula owns its storage, and pays for that privilege with a hard seam.

Its siblings read a platform provider — Calendula the calendar, Agendula tasks — so their data is open by construction. There is no open provider behind a clock (PLAN.md §0), so Clockula keeps its own SQLite database. The honest asterisk is that "open data" here has to be earned rather than inherited: by a committed, reviewable schema; by a JSON export the user can actually take with them (M10); and by a boundary strict enough that the storage engine stays an implementation detail rather than becoming the app's shape.

The discipline that keeps that honest is one rule: only data/ knows Room exists. Everything above it talks to four repository interfaces and to plain-Kotlin models. ArchitectureRulesTest fails the build if anyone reaches through.

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2. Layers

   ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
   │  UI — Compose (M4+)                                     │
   │  today: MainActivity + ui/theme only                    │
   └───────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┘
                               │ plain-Kotlin models, Flows
   ┌───────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┐
   │  domain/ — Alarm, Timer, WorldClock, Stopwatch,         │
   │  ClockDefaults, WallClock, ElapsedRealtimeClock          │
   │  no android.*, no androidx.*, no Room                    │
   └───────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┘
                               │
   ┌───────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┐
   │  data/…/…Repository — four interfaces                    │
   │  AlarmRepository · TimerRepository ·                     │
   │  WorldClockRepository · StopwatchRepository              │
   └──────────────┬──────────────────────────┬───────────────┘
                  │ entities                 │ typed prefs
   ┌──────────────┴─────────────┐  ┌─────────┴───────────────┐
   │  DAOs + mappers (Room)     │  │  PrefStore (DataStore)  │
   │  ClockulaDatabase v1       │  │  clockula_prefs         │
   └──────────────┬─────────────┘  └─────────┬───────────────┘
                  │                          │
              SQLite                  preferences_pb

The seam is the repository interface list. Above it there is no AlarmEntity, no @Query, no androidx.room import and no ClockulaDatabase reference — ArchitectureRulesTest greps the whole main source set for exactly those names and for import android./import androidx. inside domain/, and fails with the offending paths listed. A grep is a blunter tool than a compiler, but it is the one that runs in the gate.

There is deliberately no internal on anything the data layer adds. Room's KSP processor generates Java against the DAO types and Kotlin mangles internal member names; Clockula is a single Gradle module, so internal would buy no encapsulation the architecture test does not already buy, and would buy a class of build failures.

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3. Modules and packages

One app module, :app, plus floret-kit as a git submodule wired in as a Gradle composite build (includeBuild("floret-kit"), consumed as de.jeanlucmakiola.floret:<module>). M3 added no Gradle module and touched no kit module — the kit's roadmap keeps schedulers app-local.

Package	Holds
domain/	Alarm.kt, Timer.kt, WorldClock.kt, Stopwatch.kt, ClockDefaults.kt, Ringtone.kt (the silent sentinel), RepeatSummary.kt, AlarmDefaults.kt — plain Kotlin, no Android
domain/alarm/	the alarm engine's pure half: occurrences, the resolver, the ring state, the volume ramp, the ring policies
domain/time/	WallClock, ElapsedRealtimeClock, ZoneProvider, BootId, Ticker
domain/live/	LivePillSelector and its state — which running thing the live pill is about, as a pure function
domain/format/	ClockFormat — M:SS / H:MM:SS, countdowns rounded up, elapsed truncated — and NextFire (NextFireLabel + NextFireFormat), the alarm row's "in 9h 12m" as data
data/db/	ClockulaDatabase — @Database v2, exportSchema = true — and Migrations
data/alarms/	the alarm and ring-state entities, DAOs, mappers and repositories
data/timers/	TimerEntity, TimerDao, TimerMapper, TimerRepository(+Impl)
data/worldclocks/	WorldClockEntity, WorldClockDao, WorldClockMapper, WorldClockRepository(+Impl)
data/stopwatch/	LapEntity, LapDao, LapMapper, StopwatchStateStore, StopwatchRepository(+Impl)
data/prefs/	SettingsPrefs, ClockPrefs, StopwatchPrefs, UiPrefs
data/ringtones/	the two ringtone seams — RingtoneCatalog (the device's alarm sounds, titles, playability, a SAF grant) and RingtonePreviewer — plus their System* implementations
data/time/	SystemWallClock, SystemElapsedRealtimeClock, SystemZoneProvider, AndroidBootIdProvider, RealTicker
data/di/	DataModule, DatabaseModule, RepositoryModule, TimeModule, RingtoneModule
alarm/	AlarmEngine and the four seams it talks to — AlarmScheduler, AlarmCapabilities, RingCoordinator, AlarmNotifier — plus AlarmIntents
alarm/android/	the seams' Android implementations: AlarmManager, the capability reads, the service handle, the snoozed notification
alarm/receiver/	AlarmFireReceiver, AlarmActionReceiver, SystemEventReceiver
alarm/ring/	the ringing foreground service, its audio player, its vibrator, its notifications
alarm/di/	AlarmModule — @Binds for the four seams
system/	RebootRepair — the boot-id gate
ui/theme/, ui/crash/	the M0/M1 theme and the crash-report surface
ui/shell/	the navigation policy (ShellNavigation), the adaptive shell, the live pill and its source/ViewModel, the notification-permission ask
ui/common/	rememberAlarmTimeFormatter — the one 12/24-hour formatter the list, the editor and the ring screen share
ui/alarms/	the real Alarms tab (M5): the routes, the list's pure row builder and its source, the two ViewModels, the list, the editor, the M3 time-picker host, the repeat-day selector and the override and ringtone pickers
ui/timers/, ui/stopwatch/, ui/worldclock/	one top-level tab each — a title bar and an empty state until M6–M8 fill them
ui/ring/	AlarmRingActivity, its ViewModel, RingScreen and the dismiss-challenge controls

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4. The data model

ClockulaDatabase is at version 2 with five tables. Every column is a primitive: Long, Int, String or Boolean. There are no Room TypeConverters — enums are stored as Enum.name in a TEXT column, instants and durations as milliseconds, the repeat set as an INTEGER bitmask. That puts the whole entity↔domain translation inside the mappers, which are plain JVM objects that a unit test can feed a corrupt row. A converter would move the same translation into generated code, where an unknown enum name throws inside a cursor read — which is a crashed list, not a degraded row.

Column names are snake_case via @ColumnInfo, so the SQL, the exported schema JSON and M10's JSON backup all read the same vocabulary in a diff.

alarms

Column	Type	Notes
id	INTEGER pk	autogenerated
hour, minute	INTEGER	read back through TimeOfDay.clamped
label	TEXT
enabled	INTEGER	indexed — enabled() filters on it
repeat_days	INTEGER	7-bit mask, see below
skip_next_occurrence	INTEGER
ringtone_uri, vibrate, snooze_minutes, snooze_limit, volume_ramp_seconds, dismiss_challenge	nullable	overrides; NULL = inherit ClockDefaults. For ringtone_uri: NULL = inherit, clockula://silent = deliberate silence (§13), anything else a content URI
created_at, updated_at	INTEGER	wall-clock epoch millis

Per-alarm settings are nullable overrides, never concrete copies of the defaults. Storing concrete values would mean a later change to a default silently failed to reach alarms the user never customised — the opposite of what "default" means. Alarm.resolveSettings(defaults) is the pure function that collapses the two, and it uses ?: throughout: a stored false for vibrate is a choice, not an absent value.

AlarmDao is an abstract class rather than an interface, so it can carry a @Transaction open suspend fun updateWithin(id, transform) — a read, a transform and a write as one unit, mirroring TimerDao.updateWithin. AlarmRepository.edit(id, transform) is its domain face: it stamps updated_at from the wall clock and forces the id, so a transform can change a field but never move a row. The editor writes through it exclusively, because the engine can call setEnabled(id, false) underneath an open editor when a one-shot alarm's cycle closes — and a whole-row write from a stale read would re-enable an alarm that had just rung. M5 changes no schema: no column was added, no version bumped, no migration written; a DAO becoming an abstract class changes no SQL.

alarm_states

Volatile ring state, one row per alarm, added at v2 (M3).

Column	Type	Notes
alarm_id	INTEGER pk	also a FOREIGN KEY … ON DELETE CASCADE to alarms(id)
snoozed_until	INTEGER?	the absolute instant a snooze is due
snooze_count	INTEGER	snoozes taken in the current ring cycle
ringing_since	INTEGER?	non-null exactly while the alarm is ringing
handled_occurrence	INTEGER?	the occurrence of the most recent ring cycle
skipped_occurrence	INTEGER?	the occurrence skip_next_occurrence is armed on

It is a table and not five more columns on alarms for three reasons: volatile ring state must not appear in M10's JSON backup of an alarm, deleting an alarm must take its ring state with it (hence the cascade), and the alarm mapper's tests stay about alarms.

A missing row is not an error. AlarmStateRepository.state(id) returns AlarmRingState.initial(id) — every instant null, count 0 — and nothing is written until there is something to write. upcoming() therefore resolves every alarm without creating a single row.

The two rules that keep re-resolution honest

An alarm's next fire time is never stored; it is re-resolved from the local time-of-day and the current zone on every fire, boot, TIME_SET, zone change and edit (PLAN.md §4). Two failure modes fall out of that, and each has exactly one rule. They are the app's least obvious invariants, and the ones a future reader will otherwise "simplify" away.

The fire-grace window. Candidates are generated strictly after now - AlarmRing.FIRE_GRACE (2 minutes). A fire delayed by doze, a slow boot or a TIME_SET nudge still counts, and a device powered on at 07:01 still rings its 07:00 alarm. An alarm missed by hours does not ring hours later.

The handled_occurrence watermark. Written the moment an alarm fires. A candidate is suppressed iff candidate <= handledOccurrence and candidate <= now. The second half is load-bearing: without it, a user who set the clock forward, let an alarm fire, then set it back would have every future occurrence suppressed forever. With it, only a past-or-present candidate can be suppressed — the watermark can silence a re-fire, but it can never silence the future.

One column, three bugs: "do not ring the same occurrence twice", "a backwards TIME_SET must not re-ring a dismissed alarm" and "a snoozed alarm's natural occurrence must stay quiet" are the same rule.

The skip watermark

alarms.skip_next_occurrence is the user-facing boolean; alarm_states.skipped_occurrence is the concrete instant the skip is armed on. The flag alone is unusable: resolve at 06:00 on Monday for a daily 07:00 alarm and you correctly get Tuesday, but resolve again at 08:00 — after the skipped occurrence has gone by — and a naive "drop the first candidate" gives Wednesday, so the skip eats a second alarm. With the watermark:

• flag set, no watermark ⇒ arm it on the first eligible candidate and fire the one after;
• watermark still in the future ⇒ fire the first candidate after it; write nothing;
• watermark at or before now ⇒ consumed: clear the flag and the watermark, and still return the first candidate after it, so the skipped occurrence cannot ring on its way out through the grace window.

Arming is deferred while a snooze is pending, and a non-repeating alarm with the flag set is disabled rather than skipped: a one-shot has exactly one occurrence, so skipping it is dismissing it in advance.

timers

Column	Type	Notes
id	INTEGER pk
label	TEXT
duration_millis	INTEGER	the configured length; addTime never moves it
state	TEXT	IDLE/RUNNING/PAUSED/EXPIRED; unknown degrades to IDLE
remaining_millis	INTEGER	authoritative when not RUNNING
started_at_elapsed_realtime_millis	INTEGER?	RUNNING only
ends_at_elapsed_realtime_millis	INTEGER?	RUNNING only — authoritative
ends_at_wall_clock_millis	INTEGER?	RUNNING only — post-reboot fallback only
ringtone_uri	TEXT?	NULL = inherit ClockDefaults.timerRingtoneUri
sort_order	INTEGER	indexed
created_at, updated_at	INTEGER	wall-clock epoch millis

world_clocks

Column	Type	Notes
id	INTEGER pk
zone_id	TEXT	unique index; IANA zone id
label	TEXT?	NULL = show the ICU-resolved city name (M8)
sort_order	INTEGER	indexed

zone_id being unique is what makes WorldClockRepository.add idempotent: it trims the id, rejects a blank or non-IANA one with IllegalArgumentException, and returns the existing row's id when the zone is already there. The lookup, the sort-order read and the insert happen in one transaction (WorldClockDao.addIfAbsent), so no other writer can slip a row in — or delete the row that won — between them, and the id handed back is always a row that exists rather than the insert's -1 sentinel. Validity means membership of java.time.ZoneId.getAvailableZoneIds(), so UTC is accepted and fixed offsets like +02:00 are not — IANA zone ids, not a bespoke city table (PLAN.md §5). A zone the device's tzdata later drops is kept, not blanked; WorldClock.isKnownZone reports it and the UI can show it as broken. Losing the user's row silently would be worse.

stopwatch_laps

Column	Type	Notes
id	INTEGER pk	not exposed to the domain
lap_index	INTEGER	unique index; 1-based, and the lap's identity
split_millis, cumulative_millis	INTEGER

LapDao.appendLap is @Transaction: it reads the previous lap, derives the index and the split, and inserts — so two concurrent laps cannot collide on the unique index.

The repeat mask

Bit n is ISO day n + 1: Monday is bit 0, Sunday bit 6, so the conversion is 1 shl (day.value - 1) against java.time.DayOfWeek.value with no lookup table. RepeatDays's constructor is private and every entry point sanitises, so a corrupt stored mask (high bits, negative) can only ever narrow to the seven valid bits.

Note for M9: the platform AlarmClock.EXTRA_DAYS contract speaks java.util.Calendar constants (Sunday = 1 … Saturday = 7). That translation happens at the intent boundary in M9, never in storage.

Reading is forgiving

Every mapper read degrades rather than throws: out-of-range hours clamp, unknown enum names fall back through core-prefs' toEnum, blank strings read back as null, negative millis clamp to zero. An absent dismiss_challenge stays null (it is an unset override); a present but unknown one degrades to NONE.

The schema is the contract

The exported JSON lives at app/schemas/de.jeanlucmakiola.clockula.data.db.ClockulaDatabase/, one file per version, all committed, and the directory is also wired in as an androidTest asset directory so MigrationTestHelper can open a v1 database on device. SchemaExportTest fails the JVM test run if a version goes missing — the previous one is never regenerated away. There is no fallbackToDestructiveMigration: PLAN.md §12 requires tested migrations from v1, and a destructive fallback would quietly eat a user's alarms.

Migrations.ALL is the single list the database builder is handed and the list the tests assert on. MIGRATION_1_2 is one CREATE TABLE alarm_states, copied verbatim from the exported schema's createSql, and the instrumentation test runs it against a real v1 database and validates the result against 2.json — a migration that fails eats the user's alarms, so it is proved rather than eyeballed.

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5. The two clocks

PLAN.md §5 calls the wall-clock / elapsed-realtime distinction "the single easiest thing to get wrong in a clock app". This is the section to read before touching anything time-shaped.

interface WallClock          { fun now(): Instant }
interface ElapsedRealtimeClock { fun elapsedRealtime(): Duration }

Both are injected everywhere and never called statically — that is the only reason the distinction can be tested from both sides. Their Android implementations are two one-line classes in data/time/ (System.currentTimeMillis() and SystemClock.elapsedRealtime()). Any new API here must name which clock it takes in its parameter list; a bare now() is forbidden.

Uses the wall clock	Uses elapsed realtime
alarms (they are calendar facts)	a running timer's countdown
created_at / updated_at on every row	the stopwatch
a running timer's post-reboot fallback, and nothing else

A running timer's three anchors

started_at_elapsed_realtime_millis is the monotonic instant of the last start/resume; ends_at_elapsed_realtime_millis is when it expires and is authoritative; ends_at_wall_clock_millis is the same instant on the wall clock and is a fallback only.

Timer.snapshotAt(elapsedRealtime, wallClock) decides staleness monotonically, without touching the wall clock at all:

elapsedRealtime() < startedAtElapsedRealtime ⇒ this is a different boot, because elapsedRealtime() never decreases within one boot.

So a user moving the system clock cannot make the anchor look stale and cannot warp a running timer — forwards or backwards. The wall-clock value is read only when that monotonic test says "different boot", and then only to answer "approximately how much is left", with TimerSnapshot.anchorIsStale = true so the UI can say so. Without it, a reboot would strand every running timer.

Known blind spot, accepted: the monotonic test only catches a reboot while the new boot's uptime is still below the old startedAtElapsedRealtime. Once the device has been up longer than that, the same comparison says "same boot" and the row is resolved against a dead pre-reboot anchor, reading as live and not stale — endsAtWallClock is never consulted.

This window opens sooner than "after it would have expired". A timer started two minutes into a boot re-enters it about two minutes into the next boot: a 30-minute timer started at uptime 2 min, with the device rebooted ten minutes later, reads as live and non-stale from uptime 2 min of the new boot onwards, and counts down from a number that means nothing. So: a stale anchor can read as live, well before expiry. The cost is accepted here because the alternative — consulting the wall clock to decide staleness — would let a user moving the system clock warp a running timer, which PLAN.md §5 forbids outright.

Closing it properly needs a persisted boot identifier, and M3 added one. RebootRepair runs at the top of every boot — from SystemEventReceiver's BOOT_COMPLETED and again from ClockulaApp.onCreate, so a broadcast the system never delivered is still caught — and rewrites every running timer from endsAtWallClock before the new uptime can climb past any stored anchor. A timer already past its wall-clock end becomes EXPIRED; one with no wall-clock fallback is paused at what it banked.

The gate is the boot id, not a flag in memory: BootId is Settings.Global.BOOT_COUNT (API 24+, no permission), and two ids that both have a count are the same boot exactly when the counts match. When either side has no count — a device that will not give BOOT_COUNT up — it falls back to comparing wallClock.now() - elapsedRealtime(), the instant the device booted, within one minute. That fallback is best-effort and documented as such: the derived instant drifts under NTP correction, which is what the tolerance absorbs. It costs nine lines and means an unreadable BOOT_COUNT degrades to approximately-right rather than to never noticing a reboot. The id is stored as one DataStore string, last_boot_id, and decoding is strict — anything malformed reads as "no known previous boot", i.e. "repair".

Every timer write is a read-modify-write inside one transaction (TimerDao.updateWithin): the row is read, the domain rule applied and the result written back before another writer can interleave. The ringing service marking a timer expired and the user adding a minute to it therefore cannot swallow each other's edit. addTime on a running timer rebases on the clamped remaining and rewrites all three anchors from a single reading of both clocks, so "+1 min" always grants a whole minute even when the end anchor has already gone by.

A RUNNING row missing either elapsed anchor is treated as corrupt, not as stale-by-reboot: it reads back whatever it last banked, flagged stale. It never throws — a throw inside a list read is a crashed screen.

The stopwatch has no fallback, on purpose

StopwatchRun carries no wall-clock field whatsoever, and StopwatchPrefs stores no wall-clock value (a test asserts that on the stored bytes). A stopwatch that spans a reboot has lost information nobody can reconstruct, and unlike a timer there is nothing to ring. A stale run therefore resolves to paused at the accumulated time, discarding the lost segment, with anchorIsStale = true. Discarding is the honest answer; guessing would be a lie displayed to two decimal places.

StopwatchRun.snapshotAt decides staleness with the same monotonic test as the timer, and had the same blind spot: once the new boot's uptime passes the stored startedAtElapsedRealtime, the reboot goes unnoticed and the run reports accumulated + (elapsedRealtime - startedAtElapsedRealtime) as live and not stale — a segment it never actually ran.

M3 closes it. The same boot gate that repairs timers also calls StopwatchRepository.pauseAfterReboot(): a RUNNING run is written back PAUSED at exactly its banked accumulated, with the start anchor dropped and nothing invented in its place. A paused or idle run is not written at all. That is three lines on top of machinery the alarm engine needs anyway, and leaving a knowingly-fabricated elapsed reading on screen for two more milestones was not defensible. M3 owns the stopwatch's post-reboot repair; M7 owns its presentation.

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6. Preferences

One DataStore file, clockula_prefs, behind floret-kit's typed PrefStore. Three slices:

Slice	Keys	Owner
Appearance (M1)	theme_mode, dynamic_color	AppearancePrefs in core-prefs — the family's shared key names
Clock defaults (M2)	default_snooze_minutes, default_snooze_limit, default_vibrate, default_volume_ramp_seconds, default_alarm_ringtone_uri, default_timer_ringtone_uri, default_dismiss_challenge, default_timer_duration_millis, home_zone_id	ClockPrefs, surfaced as SettingsPrefs.defaults: Flow<ClockDefaults>
Stopwatch run record (M2)	stopwatch_state, stopwatch_started_elapsed_millis, stopwatch_accumulated_millis, stopwatch_last_lap_cumulative_millis	StopwatchPrefs, behind StopwatchStateStore
System facts (M3)	last_boot_id	SystemPrefs, behind BootStateStore — the persisted half of the reboot gate

The stopwatch's run is a single record, so it lives in DataStore rather than as a one-row table (PLAN.md §5); its laps are a list, so they live in Room. It is also read and written as a record: StopwatchPrefs.read/write map all four keys in one snapshot and one PrefStore.edit transaction, and StopwatchStateStore.run maps that snapshot rather than combining four key flows. A state and its anchor only mean anything together, so no reader — and no process killed mid-write — ever sees RUNNING without its start anchor.

Clamp on read as well as on write. Every bounded value goes through Pref.map, which applies the same clamp in both directions: snooze 1–60 minutes, snooze limit 0–10, volume ramp 0–60 s, timer duration 1 s–24 h. A hand-edited file or a restore from a future version therefore cannot produce a value the user could never have chosen. Unknown enum names degrade to their default; a home_zone_id the device's tzdata no longer knows reads back as absent; blank strings read back as null.

SettingsPrefs.defaults and StopwatchStateStore.run are each built once as a property, not per access, and are distinct-until-changed. A collector keyed on the flow instance (as collectAsStateWithLifecycle is) would otherwise tear down and restart the DataStore collection on every recomposition. Each is composed from the individual key flows, so writing an unrelated preference never re-emits them.

A corrupt preferences_pb is replaced with empty preferences rather than throwing CorruptionException out of every launch — these values feed the theme before the first frame, and the alternative is an app only "clear data" can fix.

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7. Dependency injection

Hilt, SingletonComponent throughout. Five app modules plus the kit's:

Module	Provides
DataModule	the DataStore<Preferences> (built explicitly so its scope runs on the kit's @IoDispatcher, with the corruption handler) and PrefStore
DatabaseModule	ClockulaDatabase (@Singleton, built with .addMigrations(*Migrations.ALL)) and the five DAOs
RepositoryModule	@Binds for the five repository interfaces
TimeModule	@Binds for WallClock, ElapsedRealtimeClock, ZoneProvider and BootIdProvider
AlarmModule	@Binds for the alarm engine's four seams: AlarmScheduler, AlarmCapabilities, RingCoordinator, AlarmNotifier
RingtoneModule	@Binds for the two ringtone seams: RingtoneCatalog, RingtonePreviewer

From floret-kit: core-di's CoroutinesModule supplies @IoDispatcher and the process-lifetime @ApplicationScope the receivers launch on, and core-prefs supplies PrefStore, Pref and the appearance keys.

BroadcastReceiver.onReceive is abstract, so a Kotlin subclass cannot call super.onReceive(...) — which is exactly where Hilt injects. The three receivers therefore extend one concrete no-op base, HiltBroadcastReceiver; the Hilt plugin rewrites each receiver's superclass to its generated Hilt_… class and the super call lands on the injecting one.

Repositories take no CoroutineDispatcher. Room already dispatches suspend queries onto its own executor and runs Flow queries off the main thread, so a withContext(io) wrapper around a DAO call would be cargo cult. The DataStore half already runs on @IoDispatcher, wired once in DataModule.

SystemRingtoneCatalog is the one documented exception: it takes @IoDispatcher, because a raw ContentResolver query — and RingtoneManager's cursor, and MediaPlayer.prepare in SystemRingtonePreviewer — dispatches nothing of its own and would otherwise block whichever thread asked.

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8. Testing

JVM-first. 624 unit tests run in the gate; 28 instrumentation tests compile in it and run only on a device. There is no Robolectric and no plan for it: everything that would have needed a shadow is behind one of the injected seams, or is a pure function in domain/alarm/.

That posture had to be earned again when the UI arrived, not merely kept. The shell's whole decision surface was pushed out of the composables and into pure Kotlin: ShellNavigation (what a tab tap does to the back stack, and where back goes), LivePillSelector (which of several running things the pill is about), ClockFormat (the readout) and ChallengeGate + MathProblems (the barrier in front of a dismissal, and the promise that it always opens). What is left in the composables is Text(...) over those values. The two ViewModels that need a main dispatcher get one from a twenty-line JUnit 5 MainDispatcherExtension.

What genuinely needs hardware is written as the nine new instrumentation tests and honestly labelled as such: a window really appearing over a lock screen with FLAG_KEEP_SCREEN_ON set, a real system back press, a real activity recreation, and a TalkBack-shaped accessibility click completing the hold challenge.

• Fakes over MutableStateFlow. The five fake DAOs are backed by a MutableStateFlow<List<Entity>>, so a write re-emits on the observing flow exactly as Room's would. The three abstract DAOs are extended, not reimplemented, so their real @Transaction bodies (reorder, appendLap, updateWithin, addIfAbsent) are the ones under test. The fakes also mirror the constraints SQLite enforces: a duplicate zone_id insert returns -1, a duplicate lap_index throws, ring state for an alarm that is not there fails the foreign key, and an explicit id moves the row-id allocator past it as SQLite's would.
• Six fakes for the engine's seams. FakeAlarmScheduler holds each of the two AlarmManager slots as the value it currently holds, so a test asserts on what the system would be showing rather than on a call log; FakeRingCoordinator records start/stop in order, because the order is the take-over contract; FakeAlarmNotifier, FakeAlarmCapabilities, FakeZoneProvider (a zone a test can change under a scheduled alarm) and FakeBootIdProvider complete the set.
• A real DataStore on a temp file. The preference and stopwatch tests write an actual preferences_pb under a JUnit 5 @TempDir, which is what makes "the run survives process death" a real assertion — a second repository is constructed over the same file — rather than a fake's memory.
• Injected fake clocks. FakeWallClock moves by hand, including backwards, as a user can; FakeElapsedRealtimeClock has an explicit reboot(). The headline test starts a timer, jumps the wall clock three hours each way, and asserts both that the remaining time does not move and that the stored row is byte-for-byte unchanged.
• Pure functions carry the hard parts. DST, the resolver's precedence, the volume ramp and the "never to silence" policies are all objects with no collaborators, so the milestone's riskiest behaviour is asserted a hundred times over with hand-built inputs — including all 128 repeat masks and four zones with awkward transitions.
• Instrumentation-only is the half a fake cannot prove: generated SQL, unique indices, real @Transaction behaviour, the foreign key cascading, the v1 → v2 migration validated against the exported schema, and the database opening at version 2.
• ArchitectureRulesTest greps the main source set for Room leakage above data/ and Android imports inside domain/, alarm/AlarmEngine.kt and system/. It is the boundary of §2 made mechanical — and the engine's testability is a build-gate fact rather than a habit.

M5 kept the posture for a whole form, which is where a screen usually reaches for Robolectric. Everything a tap decides was pushed out of the composables: AlarmListRows (what the list shows, in what order, which row is "next"), NextFireFormat ("in 9h 12m"), RepeatDaysSummary/RepeatDaysOrder ("Weekdays", and which day column comes first), AlarmDefaults (a new alarm's time, resolved through a spring-forward night), AlarmOverrides (inherited or chosen), RingtonePicker (which rows exist and which is checked), AudioSourcePolicy (the fallback order, silence included) and AlarmRoutes (the route strings). Every write, every reschedule and every preview is a method on one of the two ViewModels, which the tests build over the real AlarmEngine across the fake DAOs and fake seams — the arrangement testing/AlarmEngineHarness.kt now lifts out of AlarmRingViewModelTest. What is left in the composables is Text(...), Switch(...) and stringResource.

Three ArchitectureRulesTest rules pin that mechanically: no *ViewModel.kt, *UiState.kt or *Source.kt imports androidx.compose.; the same files import no android.; and no file under ui/ names AlarmResolver or AlarmOccurrences — the screen takes the engine's resolution and re-derives none of its time arithmetic. All three held retroactively for M4's files, so they pin existing discipline rather than an aspiration.

What was left to the device is the seven new instrumentation tests: the row's switch really toggling and the row really dimming, the FAB creating an alarm and landing in its editor, the M3 time picker writing a typed time, a day toggle changing the repeat summary, a cancelled system document pick changing nothing, back returning to a still-selected Alarms tab, and the delete confirmation removing the row. They have not been run: no device is attached to the machine this milestone was built on, so the gate compiles them and this paragraph says so.

Stack: JUnit 5 + Truth + Turbine + kotlinx-coroutines-test, with useJUnitPlatform() and isReturnDefaultValues = true.

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9. Build and tooling

AGP 9.2.1 · KSP 2.3.9 · Hilt 2.59.2 · Room 2.8.3 · DataStore 1.2.1, all pinned in gradle/libs.versions.toml. compileSdk 37, targetSdk 36, minSdk 29, Java/Kotlin target 17.

Room's schema export is switched on with ksp { arg("room.schemaLocation", "$projectDir/schemas") }, and the same directory is added as an androidTest assets source dir. It is written during compileDebugKotlin, so assembleDebug must run before the test that reads it.

Reproducibility rules, checked by scripts/check_reproducible_release.sh: vcsInfo { include = false } on release, dependenciesInfo out of the APK and bundle, and no foojay toolchain resolver anywhere — not in this repo, not in floret-kit, not in a comment.

floret-kit is a git submodule consumed as a composite build; it needs a gitignored floret-kit/local.properties pointing at the SDK locally, and ANDROID_HOME in CI.

Time types: the domain speaks kotlin.time.Instant, kotlin.time.Duration, java.time.DayOfWeek and java.time.ZoneId. java.time is native at minSdk 29, so there is no desugaring. kotlinx-datetime is on the classpath for M3's DST work; the DST arithmetic itself is java.time's, wrapped in one function (§11).

Manifest

Clockula's permission set is the alarm engine's, and nothing more. Each one is declared because a specific path would otherwise fail — silently, at 07:00.

Permission	Why
USE_EXACT_ALARM	install-granted from API 33 for an app whose core function is alarms; no dialog, nothing to revoke
SCHEDULE_EXACT_ALARM android:maxSdkVersion="32"	covers 31–32, where it is pre-granted. Bounded at 32 so it never overlaps the one above — that is the documented pattern and it keeps the store listing's story clean. Below 31 an exact alarm needs no permission at all
RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED	AlarmManager keeps nothing across a reboot
USE_FULL_SCREEN_INTENT	the ring screen over the lock screen
POST_NOTIFICATIONS	the ring and snoozed notifications
FOREGROUND_SERVICE, FOREGROUND_SERVICE_SYSTEM_EXEMPTED	the ringing service
WAKE_LOCK	keep the CPU up for the length of a ring
VIBRATE	the alarm vibrates, and vibrates alone when no audio source opens

Neither of the two revocable ones can silence an alarm. A denied POST_NOTIFICATIONS costs the user the notification and nothing else — the audio belongs to the foreground service. A denied USE_FULL_SCREEN_INTENT degrades to a PRIORITY_MAX, CATEGORY_ALARM heads-up notification on the same HIGH-importance channel, which still rings. M3 declares them; M4 asks for them and M10's self-check screen explains them.

The ringing service's android:foregroundServiceType is systemExempted, which is the case Android's own fgs-types-required guidance names: an app holding SCHEDULE_EXACT_ALARM or USE_EXACT_ALARM and using a foreground service to continue alarms in the background. Not mediaPlayback — an alarm is not the user's media session, and it would owe the store a media justification — and emphatically not shortService, which caps at about three minutes against a ten-minute ring window.

The three receivers are android:exported="false": a protected system broadcast is delivered to an unexported receiver anyway (this is how androidx.work declares its own RescheduleReceiver), and a PendingIntent the app created is delivered regardless — so nothing else can fake a fire. ACTION_LOCKED_BOOT_COMPLETED is deliberately not handled: it needs directBootAware, and the database and DataStore live in credential-encrypted storage that is unreadable before the first unlock.

Components: MainActivity, the non-exported CrashReportActivity and AlarmRingActivity, the AlarmRingService, the three receivers, and AppCompat's locale metadata holder service.

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10. What is not built yet

Not here	Milestone
The exact-alarm and full-screen-intent grant deep links, and any explanation of a denial. M4 asks for POST_NOTIFICATIONS once on first launch; the rest waits for the self-check screen, because a bare jump into system settings with no reason given is hostile	M10
Every tab's real content beyond Alarms — creating and running a timer (M6), starting and lapping the stopwatch (M7), the zone list and analog face (M8). Those three keep M4's title bars and empty states	M6–M8
Reordering alarms by hand. The list is ordered by time of day (§13) and alarms has no sort_order column, so this would be a schema change for a preference the time order already answers	not planned for v1
A per-alarm auto-silence duration. Every other per-alarm setting became an override picker in M5; this one is still global and still AlarmRing.AUTO_SILENCE_AFTER	M10 at the earliest
Timers ringing — M6 reuses this milestone's audio path; M3 wires no timer to it	M6
Stopwatch presentation, best/worst lap analysis (its post-reboot repair shipped in M3)	M7
ICU city and zone display names, offsets, day differences	M8
The android.provider.AlarmClock intent surface and its hostile-extra validation (TimeOfDay.clamped and Zones.normalise exist so M9 has something to call)	M9
The self-check screen ("why might my alarm not ring?"), settings screen, JSON backup / SAF export	M10
A user-configurable auto-silence duration, an unlimited-snooze option, per-alarm auto-silence	M10 at the earliest
Screenshots and store listing polish	M11

Also absent by design: any seeded default data — no starter alarm and no home world clock on first run, so the empty states are real empty states.

Four more deliberate gaps the alarm engine leaves open:

• No missed-alarm notification or history. An auto-silenced alarm is missed silently. Not on the roadmap for v1.
• No upcoming-alarm notification. getNextAlarmClock() already draws the status-bar icon, which is the platform's answer.
• No direct-boot awareness, so an alarm cannot ring in the window between a reboot and the first unlock — see §9.
• No bundled fallback ringtone. The audio chain ends in forced vibration (§11), which makes a shipped asset a path a real device cannot reach.

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11. The alarm engine

The milestone's real deliverable, and the section to read before changing anything alarm-shaped.

The shape

AlarmResolver.resolve(alarm, state, now, zone) is pure. It returns the next fire instant, where it came from, the ring state as it should now be persisted, and two instructions that live outside the state table (clearSkipFlag, disableAlarm). It never touches a repository, a clock or ZoneId.systemDefault(), which is why the hard half of this milestone is callable from a plain JUnit test with hand-built inputs and no fakes at all.

AlarmEngine owns every write the resolver asks for and every call into the four seams. It is never driven by a Flow: resolution writes state, so an engine that rescheduled on each repository emission would re-trigger itself on its own writes. reschedule() is called explicitly — from ClockulaApp, from the receivers, and from the alarm editor. upcoming() runs the same resolver in preview mode and discards the state it returns; a read must not write, and a test asserts the store recorded nothing across a full collection.

upcoming(refresh: Flow<Unit>) takes its re-read cadence as a parameter. The resolver needs a now, and upcoming reads one inside a combine of the two repository flows — so a countdown built on it would freeze until the next database write. Making the cadence a parameter keeps PLAN.md §5's discipline (time is a parameter, never an ambient read) without giving the engine a Ticker and an Android-shaped dependency: the default, flowOf(Unit), means "resolve once per repository emission" and leaves every existing caller alone, while the alarms screen passes ticker.ticks(30.seconds). Re-resolving is still read-only, and a test collects several refreshes and asserts alarm_states recorded nothing.

Every entry point is a read-modify-write over alarm_states, and they arrive from threads that know nothing about each other — a broadcast on Dispatchers.Default, ClockulaApp's launch-time re-sync, the ring screen — so they are serialised on one Mutex. Without it, a cold start caused by the fire broadcast can read the pre-ring state and write it back over ringingSince or the handled-occurrence watermark, which either silences the alarm or lets it ring twice. The lock is not reentrant, so exactly one layer takes it: the public entry points. ClockulaApp goes through onBootCompleted() rather than calling repair, resume and reschedule one by one, so its whole pass is inside the lock.

Precedence, fixed and total

1. Disabled ⇒ clear the snooze, the ring and the skip watermark; keep handled_occurrence, because re-enabling must not un-suppress a dismissal.
2. Ringing within AUTO_SILENCE_AFTER ⇒ RESUMED_RING, nothing scheduled: it is not an alarm to come, it is one that is happening. A clock moved backwards under a ringing alarm reads as a negative age, which is inside the window — so it keeps ringing. Beyond the window it is auto-dismissed as missed and the resolution falls through.
3. Snoozed in the future ⇒ the snooze is the next fire, unless the natural occurrence is earlier (defined so the function is total). Due-but-past by less than the ring window ⇒ still the snooze, at its own past instant, which AlarmManager fires at once: a snooze promised before a reboot is kept. Older than that ⇒ abandoned.
4. The natural occurrence, with §4's grace window, watermark and skip rules.

The ring cycle

A cycle opens when the alarm fires and closes on dismiss, on the snooze limit being reached, or on auto-silence after AUTO_SILENCE_AFTER = 10 minutes (AOSP DeskClock's default; not user-configurable in v1). Snoozing keeps it open.

A non-repeating alarm is disabled when its cycle closes, never when it opens — disabling it at the start would clear its own snooze and the alarm would vanish mid-snooze.

Closing a cycle only touches the ring service and the auto-silence registration when that alarm is the one actually ringing. Both are single, global slots (there is one ring service, and stopping it stops whatever it is playing), so dismissing a merely snoozed alarm from its notification must leave a different, genuinely ringing alarm sounding with its backstop intact.

At most one alarm rings, and a newly-firing alarm takes over. Two ringtones at once is not a feature, and queueing invents a state machine nobody can debug at 07:00. The alarm that is displaced keeps its watermark, so it does not come back the moment the slot is re-resolved.

snoozeLimit == 0 means snoozing is disabled, not unlimited — v1 offers no unlimited, and "0 means infinite" is a trap. A refused snooze dismisses; it never leaves the user with a ringing alarm they cannot silence.

Two AlarmManager slots, deliberately separate

Slot	Registered with	Purpose
next alarm	setAlarmClock(AlarmClockInfo(fireAt, showIntent), …)	the user's next alarm. Doze-exempt, and the only variant that populates getNextAlarmClock()
auto-silence backstop	setExactAndAllowWhileIdle	stops a ring nobody dismissed

They are separate because getNextAlarmClock() is what draws the status-bar icon and the lockscreen line: a backstop sharing that slot would overwrite the user's 07:00 with an internal 07:10. Two PendingIntents, two request codes, two independent cancels — and a test asserts no two request codes collide, because that collision is exactly how a backstop eats a user's alarm. A snooze does go through the next-alarm slot: a snoozed alarm is the next alarm.

If exact alarms are unavailable the alarm is still registered, with setAndAllowWhileIdle. There is no third branch: late is survivable, silent is not.

DST

AlarmOccurrences walks local dates forward and maps each to an instant with one ZonedDateTime.of(date, time, zone) call — the only DST-aware call in the app. Adding 24 hours to yesterday's fire time is the bug this milestone exists not to have.

Transition	java.time's default resolver	What the user sees
Gap (spring forward) — the local time does not exist	shifts forward by the gap's own length	a 02:30 alarm on a Berlin spring-forward night rings at 03:30 local. It rings; it is never skipped. A 30-minute gap moves it by 30 minutes, not an hour
Overlap (fall back) — the local time happens twice	takes the earlier offset	a 02:30 alarm on a fall-back night rings once, at the first 02:30. Never late, never twice

These are AOSP DeskClock's behaviours, they are the two answers a user would defend ("I still got woken", "I only got woken once"), and they come free from the platform rather than from hand-rolled offset maths. They are locked by tests that assert exact instants in Europe/Berlin, America/New_York, Australia/Lord_Howe (a 30-minute gap) and Pacific/Apia (a calendar day that never existed), not by a comment.

A snooze, by contrast, is an absolute instant: no transition can move it.

Never to silence

The one non-negotiable, and it is a chain of fallbacks rather than a hope. It begins at AudioSourcePolicy.sourcesFor(ringtoneUri), a pure function a JVM test can enumerate, and the silent sentinel resolves there to an empty source list — which is precisely what makes step 4 fire, so "silent" means "vibration only" rather than "nothing at all":

1. the alarm's own ringtone URI, else
2. the device's default alarm URI, else
3. RingtoneManager.getDefaultUri(TYPE_ALARM), else
4. forced vibration — RingFallbackPolicy.vibrationRequired turns vibration on even for an alarm the user set not to vibrate, because with no audio source the alternative is silence.

The audio is the foreground service's, played over USAGE_ALARM / CONTENT_TYPE_SONIFICATION so Do Not Disturb's alarm exemption applies, with AUDIOFOCUS_GAIN_TRANSIENT — an alarm interrupts; it does not duck. The volume ramp is a pure function, MIN + (1 - MIN) · progress², stepped every 200 ms into MediaPlayer.setVolume and never into AudioManager.setStreamVolume, which would edit the user's own alarm volume and leave it edited.

RingPresentationPolicy decides how the ring is presented, and its soundsAnyway is true in all eight capability combinations — asserted exhaustively, because that is the invariant the app lives on.

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12. The app shell

Four tabs, one host, and one surface that follows whatever is running.

Navigation

NavigationSuiteScaffold from material3-adaptive-navigation-suite, taking its default navigationSuiteType: the M3 Expressive short navigation bar on a compact width and the wide rail on medium and expanded ones. Taking the default rather than writing if (compact) NavigationBar else NavigationRail is the point — the default also answers the tabletop posture and the compact-height case a hand-rolled branch quietly gets wrong.

The NavHost is the single source of truth for the selected tab. There is no var selectedTab by rememberSaveable: the selection is derived from currentBackStackEntryAsState(), and Navigation Compose already saves its back stack through a SavedStateHandle, so the tab survives rotation and process death with no mirror of ours to drift.

The policy that back stack follows is a pure function, ShellNavigation:

• a tab tap is popUpTo(start) { saveState = true } + launchSingleTop + restoreState; re-selecting the tab you are already on is the same command with restoreState = false, which pops that tab's own inner stack back to its root — the standard behaviour, and the contract M5's editor will rely on;
• back from any of the other three tabs returns to Alarms; back from Alarms, from a null route and from any route the shell does not recognise leaves the app — a nested destination's back belongs to the NavController, not to us.

Predictive back is the kit's Modifier.predictiveBack, gated on exactly that policy: on Alarms the handler is off, so the gesture falls through to the system and previews leaving the app, which is the truthful preview. Tab switches use the kit's fadeThrough() — peer destinations have no spatial relationship, and a slide would claim a hierarchy that is not there.

The live pill

PLAN.md §9 asks for a running-state surface reachable from every tab. Its real predicate is active, not running: pausing from the pill must not make the pill vanish under the thumb that pressed it, or there is no way to resume or stop from another tab — which is the flaw the pill exists to fix. So it shows for RUNNING, PAUSED and EXPIRED, and its own Stop — which is reset(), never delete() — is what removes it.

Precedence is total; first match wins:

#	Subject
1	a timer that reads as expired right now (stored EXPIRED, or stored RUNNING whose snapshot has reached zero)
2	a timer that reads as running, the one with the smallest remaining
3	a timer that reads as paused
4	the stopwatch, when its state is not IDLE
5	otherwise no pill

Ties inside a timer bucket break on sortOrder then id — the same "lower id wins" rule the alarm engine's precedence already uses, so the app has one rule. Timers outrank the stopwatch because a timer has a deadline: a missed timer costs something, a missed stopwatch tick costs nothing.

The mode and value come from Timer.snapshotAt / StopwatchRun.snapshotAt, not from the stored row — so §5's whole elapsed-realtime-versus-wall-clock story, stale anchor and all, is honoured once. The consequence that matters: a running timer that reaches zero flips the pill to EXPIRED immediately, without waiting for M6's expiry service to write markExpired. The pill never counts into negative time, and never reads 0:00 while claiming to run.

The pill is not a live region: at 1 Hz TalkBack would recite the countdown for as long as it ran. The readout carries a full sentence as its content description instead, read when focused and never announced unprompted.

The third time-shaped seam

Ticker joins WallClock, ElapsedRealtimeClock and ZoneProvider in domain/time/. A readout has to advance without a repository write, and the discipline of §5 is that time is a parameter: so "re-read the clocks now" became an injected flow rather than a delay at a call site. It emits once immediately and then every period — one second for the pill, since the pill formats to whole seconds — so a fresh subscriber is never blank. RealTicker is nothing but delay, which makes it testable under runTest's virtual clock.

The dismiss challenge, and why it cannot strand anyone

ChallengeGate is a pure state machine whose single boolean open means "dismissing is permitted now". PLAN.md §4's "must never be able to strand the user" is made executable rather than promised: the escape hatch becomes available on either three wrong answers or sixty seconds of ringing, whichever comes first, for every challenge kind — asserted as a parameterised invariant over DismissChallenge, not as three happy paths.

Three more guarantees hold alongside it. Snooze is never gated: the gate protects dismissal only. Auto-silence still ends the ring at ten minutes regardless of the gate, because that is the engine's, and the screen only follows the session to Finished. And a wrong answer carries no lockout and no penalty timer — it replaces the problem and that is all.

A completed hold is the dismissal, and a correct answer is the dismissal: no "solve it, then press Dismiss again", because a half-awake person should not have to discover a second step. The hold target also carries an accessibility onClick that completes it outright — TalkBack cannot perform a press-and-hold, and a challenge a screen reader cannot answer is precisely the stranding the requirement forbids.

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13. The alarms screen

The first tab with real content, and the milestone that gives the schema of §4 and the engine of §11 a face.

Two destinations in one flat host

The list stays on the ALARMS tab route; the editor is a sibling route in the same NavHost, alarms/edit/{alarmId}, with a NavType.LongType argument. Three properties fall straight out of §12's existing policy rather than being re-invented: destinationOf("alarms/edit/7") is null, so the Alarms tab stays highlighted while the editor is open; onBack of that route is Exit, so the shell's predictive-back handler stands aside and the editor pops itself; and a tab tap's popUpTo(start.route) pops the editor, which is the right behaviour and exactly the contract §12 wrote down for this milestone.

There is no "new alarm" sentinel id. The FAB creates the alarm — enabled, non-repeating, at the next whole hour, every override null — and then navigates to its id. One route shape, one load path, and no branch in the ViewModel for "the thing I am editing does not exist yet".

The row

A canonical two-line M3 ListItem through the kit's GroupedRow: the formatted time with the label beside it in onSurfaceVariant, a summary of repeat · next fire · skipping next, and a Switch. A disabled alarm is dimmed — the kit's own answer for "present but switched off", which fades the text to the M3 disabled emphasis and leaves the switch at full opacity. The next alarm is marked with colorScheme.primary on its next-fire clause and nothing else: PLAN.md §8's "Expressive ≠ big or bold", so the emphasis is a colour rather than a third line or a larger type ramp.

The list is a LazyColumn inside CollapsingScaffold(scrollable = false), which is the case that parameter exists for, and the FAB sits in the kit's new floatingActionButton slot (floret-kit 0.6.0). Both the FAB and the list's bottom contentPadding clear LocalLivePillInset, because the pill is bottom-centre and the FAB bottom-end.

Ordered by time of day, not by next fire

AlarmEngine.upcoming() sorts by next fire, because its job is "which alarm is earliest to register". That is the wrong order for a list: an 07:00 and a 22:00 alarm would swap places at 07:00, reordering rows under a thumb. So AlarmListRows.from re-sorts by time.minutesOfDay then id — which is also exactly what AlarmDao.observeAll emits, so the screen's order re-asserts the storage order rather than inventing one. A disabled alarm keeps its place: it is already dimmed, and sinking it would say the same thing twice while moving a row the user did not move.

The next-fire line

NextFireFormat.labelFor(nextFire, now) returns data, not a string — NotScheduled, Imminent, InMinutes, InHoursMinutes, InDaysHours — and the wording lives in strings.xml, following RingUiState's precedent. Whole units round up, the direction ClockFormat.countdown already rounds: "in 9h 12m" must mean at least nine hours and eleven-and-a-bit minutes, and an alarm 61 seconds out must not read "in 1m" when it is nearer two. InDaysHours exists because a weekly alarm can be six days out.

The cadence is 30 seconds (AlarmsDefaults.NextFireTick): the readout's unit is a minute, so half a unit bounds the displayed error, and the one-second cadence the live pill needs would re-resolve every alarm sixty times for a readout that can change once. "Ringing now" does not wait for a tick — it arrives as an alarm_states write, which re-emits at once.

Every override is a picker, and its first option is "App default"

A per-alarm setting is a nullable override (§4), so the stored value is ternary: absent, or a choice that happens to be false or 0. A Switch cannot say "I have not chosen" — toggling one would silently turn "follows your default" into "explicitly on", with no way back. So all five overrides (vibrate, gradual volume, snooze length, snooze limit, dismiss challenge) use the kit's OptionPicker, whose first row is "App default (On)" and names what the default currently is. Every option offered is inside ClockPrefs' clamps, so nothing chosen can be clamped away on the next read, and snoozeLimit == 0 is labelled "No snoozing", never "unlimited" — §11's "0 means infinite is a trap".

Each row's summary shows the effective value, prefixed while inherited, so the inheritance is visible without opening anything. There is no tri-state hack and no "reset this alarm" button to discover.

The ringtone picker

Bespoke over FullScreenPicker(scrollable = false) rather than OptionPicker, because a device's tone list can be hundreds of rows. RingtonePicker.optionsFor is pure and yields four kinds of row, de-duplicated by URI:

1. App default — summarised with what it currently resolves to, or "Device default alarm sound" when the app default is itself null;
2. Silent — Ringtones.SILENT_URI, clockula://silent. null already means inherit, so silence needs a value of its own, and a private scheme is one no ContentProvider URI can collide with. It resolves to an empty audio source list, which forces vibration (§11) — the label is "Silent" with the summary "Vibration only", so it is not a lie;
3. the alarm's own sound when the device does not list it — a SAF-picked file, or a URI another app wrote. Without this row the user's own selection would be invisible, and so uncheckable, in the picker that chose it;
4. the device's alarm tones, title-sorted.

"Choose from files…" is an action row, not an option, so the pure list stays a list of selectable states. A picked document's read grant is made persistent through RingtoneCatalog.persistPickedDocument; if that fails the URI is still stored (the fallback chain protects the ring) and the row discloses "Clockula may lose access to this file later". A stored sound the catalog cannot open right now is likewise reported, never rewritten — "unreadable now" and "gone forever" are indistinguishable, an unmounted card comes back, and discarding the user's choice silently would be the worse failure.

Previewing goes through RingtonePreviewer, a two-method seam over the same USAGE_ALARM attributes the ring service uses, so a preview sounds like the alarm will. One previewer, so a second preview stops the first; selecting an option, closing the picker and onCleared() all stop it. Deliberately no audio focus and no ramp: a preview is not an alarm.

The rule a future reader will otherwise simplify away

A ringing alarm is dismissed through the engine before it is edited, disabled or deleted.

AlarmResolver's disabled branch clears ringingSince and the engine persists that — but nothing in that path stops the ring service. The service and the auto-silence backstop are single global slots (§11), touched only by closeCycleLocked, and onAutoSilence returns early once ringingSince is null. So switching off or deleting a ringing alarm from this screen would clear its state and leave it sounding until the 15-minute wake-lock timeout, with the backstop disarmed by its own guard. Both ViewModels therefore call

if (engine.ringSession()?.alarm?.id == alarmId) engine.dismiss(alarmId)

before setEnabled(id, false) and before delete(id). It reads storage under the engine's own mutex, so it cannot race the fire it is asking about, and it is deliberately conditional: dismissing unconditionally would also drop a merely snoozed alarm's pending snooze, which is wrong for a label edit.

Immediate apply

There is no Save button, no dirty state and no discard dialog: PLAN.md §11 names Google Clock as the interaction reference, and this is its model. The editor edits a persisted row and every control writes at once. The label is written on every keystroke through one conflating MutableStateFlow — which writes the first value and the latest, in order, never interleaved — and onCleared() re-launches the last value on the kit's @ApplicationScope, so leaving the editor mid-word cannot lose the word. reschedule() is called only after a change that can move a fire time (create, delete, enabled, time, repeat days, skip-next), so fiddling with sound settings costs no AlarmManager traffic; a snooze length cannot move a pending snooze, which is stored as an absolute instant.

Skip-next-occurrence, built in M3 with no caller, is the editor's — and only for a repeating alarm. The resolver answers a one-shot-with-skip by disabling the alarm, and a switch labelled "skip" that silently switched the alarm off would be a lie; the user who wants that has the enable switch.

Delete lives in the editor behind a confirmation that names the alarm, and there is deliberately no undo chip: the delete happens on the editor, so an undo chip would have to live on the list, and an accidentally deleted alarm is discovered at 07:00 rather than now — the cheap moment to ask is before.