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Issue #24 asks for Google Clock's "automatic home clock": a temporary Home row while the device is somewhere the time differs from home. In Google Clock that works because the hero clock is local time. Clockula is the other way round: the hero face is home (the stored home zone, or the device's zone when none is stored), every row is read against home, and with a stored home the face already shows home time on a trip. A Home row would only repeat the face; what goes missing while travelling is the local time. So the feature is turned round. With a home zone stored and the device's zone on a different UTC offset right now, the tab shows the device's zone as a temporary "Local time" row between the face and the saved cities. It is never stored, sits outside the reorderable column, has no move or remove actions and does not count towards the 24-city cap. The comparison is the current UTC offset, as Google's is, so Paris with home in Berlin shows nothing. The row is hidden when a saved city is already on the device's offset. It is rebuilt on every tick from the same device-zone read the face uses, so it appears and disappears within a tick of a time-zone change while the tab is open. Home that follows the device can never differ from it. Settings > Clock gets an "Automatic local clock" switch (on by default) under the home zone row; while home follows the device the row is dimmed and its hint says it needs a home time zone. The switch is stored as automatic_local_clock and included in backups. Files written before this change restore it as on. Fixes #24
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Changelog
All notable changes to Clockula are documented here.
The format is based on Keep a Changelog,
and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.
Tag sections feed the release notes; see docs/RELEASING.md.
[Unreleased]
The first release of Clockula: alarms, timers, a stopwatch and a world clock.
Added
- Alarms. Alarms are scheduled as real alarm clocks, exempt from battery saving and shown on the lock screen and in the status bar. They survive a reboot, a process kill and a change of the device's clock, and daylight-saving nights neither skip nor double one. If the full-screen or notification permission is denied, an alarm still rings, and when no sound can play it vibrates.
- An alarm list that shows when each alarm will ring and marks the next one. Changes apply as you make them, with no Save button.
- Repeat days that start on your locale's first day of the week, and a "skip next alarm" switch so you can sleep in once without turning the alarm off.
- Per-alarm sound, vibration, gradual volume, snooze length and limit, and a dismiss challenge (a quick sum or a two-second hold). Each one can follow the app default, so changing a default later still reaches it.
- Your own sounds: the device's alarm tones, the "Timer expired" sound from Android's own Clock, a file you pick, Silent (which still vibrates), or music from an app that shares its library, such as VLC or AntennaPod. If the music can't play, or might not be heard, the alarm rings with the default sound instead.
- A ring screen over the lock screen with snooze and dismiss. The dismiss challenge always gives you a way out, works with a screen reader, and Back can't silence an alarm.
- Timers. Run several at once, each with its own label, length and sound, set from a keypad with saved presets. Pause, resume, reset and +1 min work from the timer, from the live pill and from the notification. A finished timer turns the screen on and opens over the lock screen with Stop and +1 min. Timers keep counting through a reboot and aren't affected by changes to the clock.
- Stopwatch with laps, the fastest and slowest marked, and Lap and Pause in the notification. It keeps counting while the app is closed.
- World clock. An analog face for your own time, plus cities from the device's time-zone database, searchable in your language. Each city shows the offset from your time and whether it's a different day there. Reorder them by dragging or with a screen reader, and set a home time zone or follow the device.
- An automatic local clock while travelling. When you've set a home time zone and your device is somewhere the time differs, the World clock tab adds a "Local time" row under the home face. It goes away again once you're back on home time, and stays hidden if one of your cities already shows that time. It's Google Clock's "automatic home clock" turned round: Clockula's face already shows home, so the clock that goes missing on a trip is the local one. Turn it off in Settings › Clock.
- A live pill that shows whatever is counting from every tab.
- Swipe between tabs on phones. Tablets and foldables get a side rail.
- Other apps can set, show, snooze and dismiss alarms and timers through Android's standard alarm intents, so assistants and automation apps work with Clockula. A voice-set alarm cleans up after itself once dismissed.
- Settings: theme, dynamic colour, language, and the defaults every new alarm and timer inherits.
- Back up alarms, timers, world clocks and settings to a JSON file, and restore them on this device or another one.
- "Why might my alarm not ring?", a self-check that reads your device's real state: permissions, battery optimisation, Do Not Disturb, alarm volume, and whether the system has Clockula's next alarm. It links straight to the setting that fixes each problem.
- Home-screen widgets: next alarm, timer (with controls), a quick timer, and analog and digital clocks that show your world clocks at larger sizes. Each widget can follow the system theme or stay light or dark, and choose what a tap opens.