Release Notes

09/08/2012: v1.3.1

Highlights

• JellyBean fixes
• AutoRemote plugin: control your phone from a website or another phone

JellyBean

• app creation: permission READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE for several actions
• accessibility service: permission BIND_ACCESSIBILITY_SERVICE on service if SDK >= 16
• action Play Ringtone (probably others): action edit UI setup was presetting values when not required
• removed Tasker-status-bar-icon disappearing workaround, Android bug fixed in JB
• action Tether USB made unavailable
• made actions Vibrate on Ringer and Vibrate on Notify unavailable (they have no effect in JB)
• set priority of Tasker permanent notification to low by default, lowest when transparent icon is selected
• extra priority arg to Notify actions
• workaround for Android bug, Accessibility Service not working after install or reboot
• app creation: workaround for above bug, based on Minimum Android Version in kid config, see App Creation in Userguide

Additions

• state Cell Near: Ignore Cells parameter
• tip after cancellation of profile export options: exporting as app
• action Stop: optional task name parameter (very experimental)
• scene element Web View: parameter Self Handle Links
• support for new SDK 5 service start API
• selector for 'essential plugins' in action and state Plugin category

Bugfixes

• some Android versions: app creation: permission error at prepare package step
• action Clear Variable: wasn't allowing patterns not starting with %
• most variable actions: don't accept a range like %var() or %var(1:3) as a valid variable name
• goto: landing on a For action was causing the counter to reset, now has no effect on counter
• app creation: profiles starting disabled, set enabled dynamically, were redisabled after reboot
• action Set Tasker Icon: wasn't updating status bar icon if custom notification layout was used
• app creation: action Speakerphone: was missing needed permission
• action edit screen, action Misc / Test, Package Name, magnifying glass wasn't working
• kid config: changing from not debug to debug mode was not adding extra needed permission (and vice versa)
• app creation: was missing WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission needed for unpacking SL4A scripts
• app creation: GPS action requires ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION permission on at least some devices
• don't mark named task references as bad in UI if the reference contains a variable
• string parameters containing variables in state contexts: activation state dynamically rechecked when variable value changes
• creating a MapView in a Popup etc action layout scene would cause crash when editing the action
• Take Photo: just warn about unsupported resolution, take account of possible variable specification in UI
• Take Photo: accept resolutions with reverse portrait/landscape sizes
• Take Photo: spurious warning for some cameras
• action Delete Dir, possible null pointer when specified directory empty on some devices
• action Read File: To Var was not accepting single array refs
• Scene Element Menu: with selection mode Multiple, wasn't running tap event task if specified
• Scene element event tasks, %element_type and %event_type had each other's values
• Scene Element Menu: wasn't updating when items deleted from array or variable value changed
• action Array Popup sends a cleared broadcast for the array name
• disallow file/dir actions that can use root from being called externally
• app creation: Say/Say To File: don't treat 'default' as a literal speech engine
• attempted bugfixes for several developer-console-reported errors
• action Take Photo: don't try to auto-focus if camera not in auto or macro focus mode
• Menu / Data / Restore was restoring all profiles as enabled, whatever they were saved as
• was releasing camera resource twice after Take Photo, problematic for some ?
• pre-Gingerbread: was occasionally setting camera rotation in bad range
• action Take Photo was unavailable for devices with only front camera (e.g. N7)
• earlier Android versions: transparent icon with custom layout was showing default icon in status bar
• deleting a task by dragging with confirmation disabled would not update UI and cause later problems
• exception loop exiting after use of Get Location in some situations
• wasn't picking up new or deleted plugins
• app creation: bug recognizing running services. Amongst other symptoms, Disable action wasn't stopping monitor

Changes

• removed post JS task continuation delay
• action HTTP Post: send non-file non-form data (unencoded) whatever mime type
• action Variable Split: speeded up dramatically, stopped broadcasting changes for the relevant array parts
• improved startup time for Take Photo action editing by caching camera (slow on some devices)
• allow Take Photo more max time before continuing task
• action Run Shell: accept Timeout from variable with value > 120
• action Variable Convert: Date Time to Seconds: handle AM/PM time spec on end

Removed

• settings/action selector in action code select dialog