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Alarms were armed only 3 days ahead, and only while the app was open. If the app wasn't opened for 3 days, alarms stopped. After a time zone change they rang at the old zone's time.
What changed
Android triggers now start a headless Flutter engine (BackgroundSync.kt) that runs the same Dart DoseScheduler.sync() the app runs when open. The scheduling rules stay in one place, in Dart. The horizon is still 3 days.
Triggers:
a dose alarm firing, 3 s later so ringing goes first
boot and app update, after the existing native re-arm
TIMEZONE_CHANGED and TIME_SET
a daily safety-net alarm, for schedules with no alarm for days (weekly medicines)
The method-channel calls sync needs moved to AlarmChannel.kt, shared with MainActivity. Taken and Skip records now stay stored until the database has them, so a sync dying midway can't lose an answer. BootReceiver ignores actions outside its manifest filter. No database change. New dev dependencies for tests only: sqflite_common_ffi and sqlite3 2.x.
Tested on emulators (not on a real phone yet)
App process killed and not opened. Android 16 debug build and Android 12 release build.
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Android 12 release
A fired alarm arms a dose the clock-change sync couldn't reach
pass
pass
Reboot brings every alarm back
pass
pass
Time zone change moves alarms to the right wall clock
pass (New York)
pass (Tokyo)
Clock forward 5 days re-arms past the old window
pass
not run
Snooze and Taken: no double alarm
pass
not run
Found while testing: goAsync() in AlarmReceiver made a second dose due at the same moment ring 3 s late, so it isn't used there (now 52 ms apart).
Limits
Android deletes every alarm of a force-stopped app until it's opened again (seen: 0 left). No app can get around that.
After flying, a dose already taken can come back at the new zone's same wall-clock time. That's the wall-clock design, and opening the app always did the same.
flutter analyze is clean and flutter test passes, including 8 new tests in test/rearm_test.dart.
Alarms were armed 3 days ahead and only while the app was open, so they
stopped 3 days after the last open, and a time zone change left them at
the old zone's time.
Android triggers now start a headless FlutterEngine that runs the same
Dart sync: a dose alarm firing, boot, app update, TIMEZONE_CHANGED,
TIME_SET and a daily safety net for schedules with no alarm for days.
The scheduling rules stay in Dart only.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The change adds headless Flutter synchronization for dose scheduling. Android receivers request sync after alarms and selected system events, with a daily safety-net alarm. Alarm-channel operations support the headless engine, and pending actions remain stored until acknowledged. SQLite-FFI tests cover scheduler behavior.
AlarmChannel handles scheduling, cancellation, pending actions, fired events, and outstanding-dose notifications. Dart reads pending actions and acknowledges them after processing. MainActivity delegates channel calls to the shared handler.
BackgroundSync runs Dart’s backgroundSync entry point in a headless Flutter engine and arms a daily safety-net alarm. The entry point runs DoseScheduler.sync() and signals completion.
Native receivers request sync after alarm, boot, package-replacement, quickboot, clock, time-zone, and daily-sync events. Boot, package-replacement, and quickboot events also rearm alarms. AGENTS.md records implementation status, test observations, limitations, and edge cases.
Scheduler updates and tests lib/services/scheduler.dart, pubspec.yaml, test/rearm_test.dart
The scheduler acknowledges pending actions after processing them, including actions for missing doses. Tests cover scheduling horizons, repeated syncs, overdue doses, off-slot doses, and queued actions. Development dependencies add SQLite FFI support.
sequenceDiagram
participant AlarmReceiver
participant BackgroundSync
participant FlutterEngine
participant backgroundSync
participant DoseScheduler
participant AlarmBridge
AlarmReceiver->>BackgroundSync: request sync after ringing
BackgroundSync->>FlutterEngine: start headless engine
FlutterEngine->>backgroundSync: invoke entry point
backgroundSync->>DoseScheduler: run sync()
DoseScheduler->>AlarmBridge: read and acknowledge pending actions
backgroundSync->>AlarmBridge: signal backgroundSyncDone()
AlarmBridge->>BackgroundSync: report completion
BackgroundSync->>FlutterEngine: destroy engine
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After a time or time-zone change, a failed background sync may not be retried for up to 24 hours, so alarms could stay at the old time in that rare case. The normal path works. Consider preserving an earlier retry while keeping the daily bound.
Security architecture risk: Moderate · up to 18e90
Background scheduling improves alarm continuity, but another installed app can request the new background work, and concurrent foreground and background operations can leave obsolete alarms or overwrite a newer medication answer. Exposure is confined to the affected app on one device; no direct data-disclosure path was established.
Retained concerns
Low · security · observed: The exported, permissionless BootReceiver accepts an explicit DAILY_SYNC action and now starts headless scheduler work under application authority. An unprivileged installed app can repeatedly request this work without controlling medication inputs. Exported access already existed, but starting Flutter and database reconciliation is new. Coalescing limits simultaneous headless runs, not repeated runs, leaving an app-local resource-abuse surface.
Medium · reliability · inferred: The new background engine shares mutable scheduling state with foreground operations without a common ownership fence. A headless run holding an old dose snapshot can schedule that dose after restore cancels alarms and replaces database identities, leaving a ringable orphan outside restored ownership. Likewise, a delayed pending-action consumer can overwrite a newer committed answer because status writes are unconditional. Fresh restore IDs, SQLite transactions, and timestamp-checked queue acknowledgment do not prevent these stale side effects. These are inferred concurrency failures affecting alarm containment and medication-record integrity, not demonstrated device failures.
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Security Blast Radius
inferred — The identified attack surface requires another installed application and affects the victim app's execution resources, local medication state, and alarms on that device. The inspected receiver flow provides no caller-facing medication-data result and establishes no cross-account or backend exposure.
Security Findings and Attack Paths
observed — An explicit broadcast naming BootReceiver and DAILY_SYNC crosses from an unprivileged sender into application-owned headless execution. The immutable safety-net PendingIntent does not authenticate independently sent explicit broadcasts. Repeated requests can request successive runs despite coalescing.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — Unknown actions now return, narrowing the base receiver's unconditional dispatch. Standard Android protections restrict spoofing of system boot and clock broadcasts, but do not authenticate the app-defined DAILY_SYNC action. AlarmService remains non-exported, and the headless method channel is created internally rather than exposed directly to the sender.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — Answer persistence now survives interruption before acknowledgment, and acknowledgment preserves a newer queued record by comparing timestamps. This is a queue-deletion control, not a database ordering control: setDoseStatus still updates by dose ID without checking the previously committed answer version.
inferred — Restore's database transaction and fresh IDs prevent restored rows from inheriting old identities, but do not cancel an old engine's later alarm writes. Native scheduling and ringing consume supplied IDs and labels without validating current database ownership, so a stale alarm can outlive the restore that should have removed it.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — Separate private daily-sync delivery from the exported system-event receiver, and explicitly authorize any custom externally accepted boot actions while preserving required OEM compatibility.
proposed — Coordinate foreground and headless state transitions through a shared execution owner or generation fence. Make alarm writes reject obsolete generations and answer writes reject superseded record versions, rather than relying only on per-engine coalescing and queue acknowledgment.
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sqlite3 3.x has a native build step that also runs for the Android
build, so the app build depended on a download from GitHub, and a 504
there failed CI. 2.x has no build step. Only tests use it.
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The receiver is exported, so any app could send it an unknown action,
which was treated as a boot and started a headless engine.
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Records were deleted when read, before the status was saved. A sync
dying in between lost the answer, and background sync can now die with
no screen open. A dose wrongly shown as missed can get taken twice.
They now go only after the save, and only if unchanged since the read.
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On Android 12, another app can explicitly send ACTION_DAILY_SYNC to BootReceiver. Repeated broadcasts can keep starting headless syncs and consume CPU and battery. Each request also postpones the safety alarm.
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Checked, leaving this as is. BootReceiver has to stay exported for the OEM QUICKBOOT_POWERON actions, which are not protected broadcasts. Any app can already send those and trigger the same sync, plus rearmAll. So a separate receiver for DAILY_SYNC closes nothing. The worst a sender can do is cause an extra idempotent sync (battery only), and overlapping requests are merged by BackgroundSync.
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@SusieeTheLinuxUser Thanks for the explanation. The OEM quickboot actions reach the same sync and safety-net path, so moving ACTION_DAILY_SYNC alone would not remove that exposure. I understand your decision to leave it as is.
One distinction: merging overlapping requests limits concurrent syncs, but does not prevent repeated broadcasts from postponing the safety-net alarm. The original exposure therefore remains a risk you have chosen to accept.
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Major · Give the delayed sync independent ownership · AlarmReceiver.kt:52-59
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Give the delayed sync independent ownership
If ringing stops before sync completes, Android may reclaim the process and lose the sync. If this happens repeatedly, each dose alarm also moves the daily safety net back by 24 hours. The three-day horizon can then expire and later doses can miss their alarms.
Hand the delayed sync to a component that owns the work independently of ringing. Do not hold this broadcast open, because that delays simultaneous alarms.
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Update the delayed sync request in `AlarmReceiver` so work is owned by a
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reclaimed. Keep the receiver broadcast short-lived; do not use `goAsync()` or
otherwise delay simultaneous alarms, and preserve the existing sync delay.
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Every BackgroundSync.request re-armed the net 24 h out, including the one
from AlarmReceiver. That sync can be lost if the process dies once ringing
stops, so a daily med could keep moving the net without any sync finishing,
until the 3-day horizon ran out. Only BootReceiver's triggers (boot, app
update, clock and zone changes, the net itself) and opening the app arm it.
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Major · Stability & Availability · Heavy lift
Supported by static analysis
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Android AlarmManager setAndAllowWhileIdle replaces existing alarm same PendingIntent RTC_WAKEUP wall clock time changes
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- AlarmManager | API reference | Android Developers — https://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/AlarmManager
- Schedule alarms | Background work | Android Developers — https://developer.android.com/develop/background-work/services/alarms
- AlarmManager | API reference | Android Developers — https://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/AlarmManager.html?authuser=2
- AlarmManager | API reference | Android Developers — https://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/AlarmManager?authuser=108
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- AlarmManager | API reference | Android Developers — https://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/AlarmManager
- core/java/android/app/AlarmManager.java - platform/frameworks/base - Git at Google — https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/%2B/a69950c/core/java/android/app/AlarmManager.java
- android-35/android/app/AlarmManager.java - platform/prebuilts/fullsdk/sources - Git at Google — https://android.googlesource.com/platform/prebuilts/fullsdk/sources/%2B/refs/heads/main/android-35/android/app/AlarmManager.java
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Preserve an earlier safety-net retry on time changes.
A time change can replace a safety net due soon with one scheduled 24 hours later. If the sync fails and no other trigger occurs first, medication alarms can remain at the old time until after the next dose.
Preserve the earlier retry while also keeping the daily bound after a backward clock change. Skipping re-arming for all clock changes would not preserve that bound.
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Update the time-change handling around BackgroundSync.armSafetyNet so a time
change cannot postpone an already earlier safety-net retry, while still
enforcing the daily bound after a backward clock change. Preserve both
scheduling guarantees using the existing safety-net state and scheduling
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Checked, leaving this as is. It needs a time change, then that sync failing while the broadcast still holds the process, then no other trigger before the next dose, and the next dose firing starts its own sync. The net only promises a sync within about a day of the last trigger, and re-arming on a time change keeps that promise. Keeping an earlier retry would mean storing the due time and comparing it across clock changes, which is more alarm-path code to guard a double failure.
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@SusieeTheLinuxUser Thanks for explaining the trade-off. The earlier retry can be delayed if the time-change sync fails, but you accept that risk to avoid adding alarm-path complexity. I’ll leave the suggestion as is.
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File: AGENTS.md:0-0
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Learning: Source excerpt:
# DoseKeeper — continuation brief
## Guardrails
- **Reliability over everything.** Never weaken the alarm path (alarm stream, foreground
service, full-screen intent, `setAlarmClock`) for cleanliness or battery friendliness.
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Why
Alarms were armed only 3 days ahead, and only while the app was open. If the app wasn't opened for 3 days, alarms stopped. After a time zone change they rang at the old zone's time.
What changed
Android triggers now start a headless Flutter engine (
BackgroundSync.kt) that runs the same DartDoseScheduler.sync()the app runs when open. The scheduling rules stay in one place, in Dart. The horizon is still 3 days.Triggers:
TIMEZONE_CHANGEDandTIME_SETThe method-channel calls sync needs moved to
AlarmChannel.kt, shared withMainActivity. Taken and Skip records now stay stored until the database has them, so a sync dying midway can't lose an answer.BootReceiverignores actions outside its manifest filter. No database change. New dev dependencies for tests only:sqflite_common_ffiandsqlite32.x.Tested on emulators (not on a real phone yet)
App process killed and not opened. Android 16 debug build and Android 12 release build.
Found while testing:
goAsync()inAlarmReceivermade a second dose due at the same moment ring 3 s late, so it isn't used there (now 52 ms apart).Limits
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