Release Notes

18/07/2015: v4.7u3

• bugfix: tracking failure caused by Auto Brightness action pre-KitKat
• bugfix: missing variables in variables tab
• bugfix: various console-reported errors
• bugfix: hourly repeats weren't working correctly with no start time specified
• change: Prefs / Monitor / Motion Detection: default to off

13/07/2015: v4.7u2

• attempted bufixes: for some errors reported via developer console
• bugfix: spurious warning about moving autobackups
• bugfix: was not handling no restore options being available
• bugfix: app creation: file:// icon URIs were causing creation to fail
• added: action Interrupt Mode: Continue On Eror option

11/06/2015: v4.7u1

• bugfix: menu elements: items were being always expanded to fill the element width
• bugfix: scene element: text boxes that take variables: removed 10 character restriction
• bugfix: action Default Ringtone: catch crash coming back from selector
• bugfix: main screen Menu option exit: dependent on profiles, might always say data needed saving even if nothing done
• bugfix: some context types were not showing activated in the UI if UI was already loaded upon activation
• attempted bufixes: for some errors reported via developer console
• change: action Zip: if Output File specified, add .zip to name if not already there

08/06/2015: v4.7

Android 4.0+ Devices

Highlights

• Android app backup support (disabled by default)
• dynamic configuration (and task) loading for e.g. remote device administration
• improved local backup/restore
• individual context activation states shown in UI
• task testing: problems shown in-line
• accelerometer support for lower power and more responsive location detection (where hardware available)

Incompatibilities

• scenes: existing elements with text: may be too large and need shrinking, due to bug fixes around scaling unfortunately
• action Variable Convert: Bytes To Mega/Gigabytes now uses solely . for fractions
• action Array Process: type Squash: must reselect type of existing actions
• action Test System: must reselect test type of existing actions
• action Test Display: new values landscape-reverse and portrait-reverse, may need to change tasks
• tasks with Perform Task actions with priority 10 will perform differently when tested via Task Edit screen (default test priority is now 100), long-click the Play Button to test at 10 (but it's recommended to not used fixed priorities)

Added

• Prefs / Misc: Android Backup
• action Tasker / Import Data
• action Array Process: Sort Numeric Integer and Sort Numeric Floating-Point
• action Send Intent: Extra fields: support for parcelable Java objects created with Java Function
• action Send Intent: Extra fields: support for Uris via casting of value
• action Send Intent: extra Extra field (also for JS function)
• file selection: text box for specification
• file selection for local data backup and restore
• scene element WebView: Background tab
• action Test System: added Android ID test type
• action Test Display / Orientation: added landscape-reverse and portrait-reverse values
• per-action log access in task edit screen after test runs
• action Vibrate/Vibrate Pattern: Continue On Error param
• action Zip: Target File parameter
• action Media Control: option to send the command to a specific app
• main screen profile/task/scene list: multi-select mode action: Move To Top (when items are user-sorted)
• main screen profile/task/scene: sort by age
• action Zip: Target File parameter
• action Media Control: option to send the command to a specific app
• scene element TextEdit: Focus event
• action Element Text: parameter Selection (TextEdit elements only)
• JS: function Say: parameters Respect Audio Focus and Use Network
• scene element Web: Support Popups parameter for e.g. form selection elements
• state Net / Auto Sync
• action Launch App: parameter Always Start New Copy, default is now to use existing copy of app when possible
• Music Play Dir: Audio Only: extra file extensions
• display-off monitoring: use of significant motion sensor where available (no power usage when stationary,
• Prefs / Monitor / Display Off / Motion Detection (enabled by default)
• BODY_SENSORS permission for Heart Rate
• State / Heart Rate (untested)
• variable: %HEART (Heart Rate) (untested)
• action Net / HTTP Head
• events Variables / Variable Cleared/Set: parameter User Variables Only
• event Tasker / Timer Change (when Task Timer status changes)
• Tasker / Test Tasker: type Timer Widget Remaining
• Prefs / UI / List Item Drag Margin / Disable option
• variable %TNET: try using getprop as workaround when Android doesn't return a value
• action Get Voice: parameter Language
• actions File / GZip and File / GUnzip
• state Power / Battery Temperature
• state Power Save Mode (Android 5.0+)
• task edit screen: test buttons: log display when action fails
• Search Tasker: matches also against action parameters which have a set of strings to choose for the value

Bugfixes

• %WIN was not reporting title of Tasker dialog and NoBar activity scenes
• action Variable Convert: Bytes To Mega/Gigabytes was using localized decimal point character
• confirmation of data restore was before selecting source rather than as last step
• file selection: when path selected outside storage root, use abs path
• videos weren't working in scene WebView elements
• getSearchValue log error from event plugins
• Java: null-valued objects were not returning 'null' when used in e.g. If conditions
• attempting to export project without icon gave spurious log warning
• scene element Number Picker: min/max/init params weren't being properly validated
• HTTP Get/Post: error documents weren't being put into %HTTPD in some situations
• on device shutdown, exit tasks with certain actions with local vars were generating spurious warnings
• action Create Element: editing element content before putting in a scene name gave a spurious error message in log
• action Scene / Create Element: creating a Map element was crashing
• Menu / More / Run An Action: icon/action edit of e.g. actions in Notify action was exiting action edit screen behind
• warnings after clicking on unnamed task in results of Search Tasker
• JavaScript(let): warnings from JS engine would cause execution to stop at some points
• sometimes ended up with a blank Tasker app when pressing back immediately after launching
• action Zip: Delete Original parameter wasn't working on directories
• (very) old XML icon format was preventing some (very) old data importing
• scene elements and scene were shrinking a little (but cumulatively) on display rotation
• warnings after clicking on unnamed task in results of Search Tasker
• JavaScript(let): warnings from JS engine would cause execution to stop at some points
• sometimes ended up with a blank Tasker app when pressing back immediately after launching
• action Zip: Delete Original parameter wasn't working on directories
• (very) old XML icon format was preventing some (very) old data importing
• scene elements and scene were shrinking a little (but cumulatively) on display rotation
• disabled Wait actions were affecting task scheduling
• Menu elements: more fixing of caching problems when screen rotated
• action Variable Join: was stopping at first index without a value
• action Perform Task: multiple kids with lower pri were running in sequence instead of simultaneously
• menu/spinner element entries weren't scaling up with element bounds when displayed or imported on different device
• Text elements text size wasn't scaling up with bounds on display
• state Display Orientation: had no help text
• some file actions using root were not testing preconditions with root
• some file actions using root were not quoting special shell characters in file names
• workaround for cell location update crashing monitor service on Android 5.1
• app creation: missing permission for event Received Data SMS
• %PACTIVE, %PENABLED: entries were in largely random order
• fix for shell-related operations on 64-bit (thanks Josiah Mch)
• Take Photo: with Discrete selected, don't modify sys vol if in Interrupt Mode none/Silent Mode or it's already 0
• file shredding (e.g. for action Delete File) was failing on very large files
• in some UI text boxes for passwords, entered text was visible in landscape mode
• notification action icons: not setting an icon was resulting in the Tasker icon instead of no icon
• event/state selector: filter was showing wrong icons
• Run Log: date headers were disappearing when no filter items matched that day
• some popup text dialogs in the UI weren't scrollable for large content
• app context: didn't handle pkg still there but activity gone
• profile sort Active Alpha wasn't in right order in several situations
• scene edit: selecting an elemenbt with a-z picker wasn't updating title bar
• state Media Button: with Held selected, a simple click was activating
• importing tasks into other than current project: switch to other project before centering list

Changes

• app creation: plugins can be deselected in Required Plugins section of kid config screen
• action List Files: broadcast change of array name, not each item in the result array (latter too inefficient)
• restructured Menu / Data / Restore
• action Java Function: upped max parameters to 7
• enable hardware acceleration for scene windows (but not for overlay scenes on pre-5.0 devices)
• auto backups are now placed in Tasker/configs/auto/
• move Tasker/autobackups dir to Tasker/configs/auto on UI startup if present
• move Tasker/userbackup.xml to Tasker/configs/user/backup.xml on UI startup if present
• Data / Restore / Auto Local Backups: show list most recent first, show indication of backup age
• scene element WebView: background defaults to transparent
• action Test File: added Use Root param
• action Test File, Size: for directories, return the number of children (files and dirs), previously was somewhat arbitrary
• increased task priority range 0-50 normal tasks, 0-100 when testing tasks
• action Wait: show more human-readable in task edit screen and profile list
• action Zip: accepts newline separated list of files/dirs to include in the archive
• action Wait: show more human-readable in task edit screen and profile list
• UI response to profile status change is now immediate
• action Zip: accepts newline separated list of files/dirs to include in the archive
• Time context: use AM/PM format if that's user's global preference
• profile list: use AM/PM format if that's user's global preference
• UI response to profile status change is now immediate
• scene element NumberPicker/Slider accepts (global) variable for Default parameter
• HTTP Get/Post: Cookie param: remove all occurences of Set-Cookie: so easier to reuse cookies previously received from the server earlier in the task
• app creation: typeface errors: give details
• action select dialog: show action category icon in grid instead of setting/action icon
• improved Run Log formatting to get more in the Details column

Removed

• manifest permission android.vending.CHECK_LICENSE
• main screen profile sort: Creation Date

Developers

• bugfix: event/condition plugins: ArrayList and String[] bundle types were not getting into the relevant Tasker vars
• bugfix: synchronous action plugin, return ArrayList values weren't being processed correctly
• added: TaskerPlugin.Setting.getHintTimeoutMS() for use in a settings FireReceiver to see which timeout the host is applying. If validating intent extras from host, be aware that an extra key has been added for this.