Alarm after beginning of an event

[hoergen]

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
no

Describe the solution you'd like
Normaly you can set alarms before an event to remind you for that event. I would like to have the option to set alarms after an event has started. The reason is that I so can define a "warning" before an event ends instead of setting up a timer or another event in the event.

So setting up an one hour event with an alarm 10 minutes before and then be able to set 45 minutes after the event starts to set a warning, that the events is close to end soon.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Setting up additional timers with another app

Additional context
the only calender I know that is doing this is Etar. But I would love to use the Fossify Calender because of several other reasons.

[Mileeam]

Hello, as part of a course (from Université Paris 8) on free software development where I have to make my first contribution to an open-source project, I would like to work on this feature request if it is still available and possible.

[Aga-C]

@Mileeam You're free to work on any issue that doesn't have needs triage label.

[Mileeam]

@Aga-C ok so i am free to work on this one since needs triage label was remove ?

[Aga-C]

@Mileeam Yes.

[woheller69]

What about simply allowing to enter negative values?

[woheller69]

It works with the following 2 changes:

1.) Fossify Commons library:
Add a "-" after "0123456789" in commons/src/main/res/layout/dialog_custom_interval_picker.xml

            android:id="@+id/dialog_custom_interval_value"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:digits="0123456789-"
            android:inputType="number"
            android:maxLength="5"
            android:textCursorDrawable="@null"

2.) in EventActivity.kt -> saveEvent()
remove this part:

    if (!binding.eventAllDay.isChecked) {
        if ((reminders.getOrNull(2)?.minutes ?: 0) < -1) {
            reminders.removeAt(2)
        }

        if ((reminders.getOrNull(1)?.minutes ?: 0) < -1) {
            reminders.removeAt(1)
        }

        if ((reminders.getOrNull(0)?.minutes ?: 0) < -1) {
            reminders.removeAt(0)
        }
    }

Then reminders after start of the event will be saved.
2 minor issues remain:

• "-1" minute does not work, because -1 is used for "no reminder". If an event with reminder 1min after start is created with Etar, also "No reminder" is displayed. So that is a bug in my view. We should better use Integer.MIN_VALUE instead of -1
• the display is wrong. It does not say e.g. "10 minutes after" but "During the day at 00:10".
  But this error is also present if an event is created with a different app like Etar which also supports to enter reminders after start. Nevertheless the alarm works correctly.