Actions on alarms
An alarm or reminder can carry one action: something it does when it rings, besides ringing. There are two kinds.
- Open App. The ringing screen shows the app's own icon, and tapping it opens the app. See launching apps from alarms.
- Phone Call. The ringing screen shows a phone badge with the person's name, and tapping it opens your phone app with their number filled in.
The case it was built for: call Mum at six. The alarm rings, the badge says MUM with TAP TO CALL curved under it, and one tap puts the number in your dialler. Nothing to look up while half-listening to a ringtone.
Calendite never dials by itself. Tapping the badge opens your phone app with the number ready; you place the call. You always see the number before anyone's phone rings.
Adding an action
The action belongs to the alert, so it's set where you set the alert's time and choose between Alarm and Notification. On a reminder it's the Action tile.
- Add or edit an alert on an event.
- Tap the Actions row. Unset, it reads Add Action.
- Choose Open App or Phone Call from the sheet.
- For a call, tap Choose From Contacts and pick a number, or type one and say who it is. Tap Continue.
The row now shows the action: the app's icon and name, or a phone glyph with Call Mum and the number underneath. One action per alert; choosing another kind replaces it, and the × on the row removes it.
Choosing from contacts uses your phone's own contacts picker. Calendite receives the one number you tap and the name it's filed under, and asks for no access to the rest of your contacts. The name is kept with the alarm so the badge can still say who it's for if the contact is later renamed or deleted.
Typing a number works for anything not in your contacts: the dentist, a helpline. The name is optional. Without one the badge shows the number instead.
When the alarm rings
The bell at the top of the ringing screen becomes the action's badge: the app's icon, or a phone glyph in a circle, with the name curved above and TAP TO OPEN or TAP TO CALL curved below. Everything else is as usual: the alert text, snooze, slide to dismiss.
Tapping the badge stops the ringing, does the action and closes the alarm screen, in that order, so you are never left with an alarm ringing behind the dialler.
The same action is on the alarm's card in the notification shade, as a Call or Open button beside Snooze and Stop. On a locked phone the card shows the button without the event's name, the same as its other controls.
What it doesn't do
- It doesn't place the call. Your phone app opens with the number ready, and you tap Call there.
- One action per alert. An alarm can open an app or offer a call, not both.
- Plain notifications show no button. A notification that doesn't ring carries the action on the event, but its card in the shade has no buttons.