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For this app to work it must be opened at least once after installation. Please don't forget to grant required calendar access permissions.
Please disable any Android power optimizations for this app (it won't consume much power), it is required for reliable operation.
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Samsung users: power saving for this app should be disabled in two places: 1) Android Settings -> Battery -> App Power Saver -> Details; 2) Android Settings -> Battery -> Battery Usage -> More -> Optimize Battery Usage.
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Xiaomi/MIUI users: to disable power saving for this app, open Security app, go to Battery -> App battery saver and change background settings for this app to "No restrictions"
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Instructions for other devices would be added later (please don't hesitate to submit instructions for your device to be added into this FAQ)
A1. Yes you can. There are two views for many notifications on Android: expanded and compact. Compact notification in case of this app would only show event basic details: title, time and location (if event has one), but Expanded view would also show "SNOOZE" and "DISMISS" buttons allowing you to act on the notification directly from notification panel.
Android decides on its own on what particular view to use for particular notification based on total number of notifications currently active and many other parameters, so by default SNOOZE and DISMISS buttons could be not visible. But you can always manually "expand" app notification (and any other expandable Android notification), there are two standard Android gestures for that:
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Swipe down on the notification with two fingers, as shown on this video: Expanding notification using two finger gesture
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Press and hold a little and then swipe down with one finger, as show on this video: Expanding notification using one finger gesture
Q2. Sometimes app shows "SNOOZE" and "DISMISS" in the notification and sometimes it doesn't. Is it a bug?
A2. Android automatically switches notification to compact views under certain conditions. You could always expand any particular notification manually to show these buttons - see Q1 for details.
Q3. App just says no notifications to display, nothing is shown in the app window. How to turn it on?
A3. Purpose of this app is to replace Calendar notifications with more advanced notifications with extended functionality like flexible snooze options, reminders, etc. So this app is not scanning Calendar for ongoing events, not displaying it on the main window since it was never a purpose of this app. On the main window app would only display fired calendar notifications - active and ones you've snoozed. If you don't have any such notifications - main window would be empty.
A4. Yes, you can un-select "Show 'Dismiss' button" option under Settings->Notifications and app would allow swiping event off to dismiss it.
A5. These are small popups that are showing brief information about notification over the top of the current activity. This is only supported on Android 5 and above.
Q6. I'm seeing notifications from both, Calendar Notifications Plus and original Calendar app. Can it be fixed?
A6. It is normally doesn't happen, but could happen on some devices. The most appropriate way of doing that would be disabling notifications in your main calendar app:
Open Settings -> General -> Unselect "Notify on this device"
Open Settings -> Notifications -> Set it to "Off"
Open Settings -> General Settings -> Untick "Notifications"
A7. Snooze presets can be edited under application Settings -> Snooze Settings -> Snooze presets. Snooze preset string is a comma-separated strings of snooze preset values, each value should be minutes, hours or days, e.g.:
- 5m
- 10h
- 3d
Also negative values are supported, negative values (and zero) are interpreted as "time until the event time".
So snooze preset string "5m, 5h, 10h, -1m" would produce the following snooze options:
- 5 minutes
- 5 hours
- 10 hours
- 1 minute before event time
If event time already in the past - "until event time" options are omitted.
You can add up to 6 snooze presets in the app.
PLEASE NOTE: since Android 6.0 intervals less than 10min are not always reliable. First reminder would work just fine, but if event snoozed again for a short period of time - next reminder are don't likely to fire earlier than in 10 minutes. This is a restriction imposed by Android to save battery power. In some cases it might not apply (like phone charging or actively being used). Google "android doze standby" for more details.
A8. By default application is using "ongoing" notifications for events - such notifications cannot be accidentally dismissed from the lock screen / notifications area (so you have to use 'dismiss' button), but such notifications are usually ignored by all the wear-ables. To see notifications on your wearable - please disable 'Show Dismiss button' option in the app Settings -> Notification Settings. Alternatively you could keep this option but turn "Swipe does snooze". In both cases app would switch to regular notifications and they would be forwarded to Android Wear appropriately. If you simply disable 'Show Dismiss button' - they swiping notification off would dismiss event. But if you keep it and turn "Swipe does snooze", then swiping event off would actually snooze it with 1st snooze preset (15m by default). This could cause a little confusion since you would see two actions on your wearable - "Dismiss" and "Full Dismiss". First would simply dismiss the notification via equivalent of swiping it off, and in fact would do snooze. Second would be equivalent to pressing "Dismiss" button on the notification.
A9. Several options are available for Pebble.
First you could simply enable "Forward to pebble" in the app settings, and then application would forward all notification texts to your Pebble via API provided by Pebble. But Such notifications would not be actionable.
To get actionable notifications on your Pebble you don't need to enable "Forward to pebble" option, but rather install Android Wear from Play Store and then do all the same steps as for Android Wear notifications (see Q8). Pebble integrates with Android Wear notifications and capable of handling them on your Pebble. The only problem you might face in this situation is reminders functionality - you wan't see any reminders on your watch since Pebble would filter out notifications with same content and would not display it again. To get reminders working with actionable notifications - you could re-enable "Forward to pebble" option and then also enable "Pebble - forward reminders only" option. In this case Android Wear would handle notifications and reminders would be manually forwarded to your pebble as a separate notifications.