Release Notes

28/03/2013: v4.0

Highlights

• changed UI to holo style with choice of 4 themes
• around 200 builtin icons (each in dark and light style)

Removed

• most of the old-style icons
• Make Donation link
• Keyguard Pattern (deprecated in Android)
• Profileify 'Browse Examples' entry (site gone)
• 'create from app' button in widget/shortcut configure screen, was just confusing people
• low memory notification, was supposed to reduce support request, caused more

Additions

• state Power: option Wireless
• compat with new Global settings class for relevant variables (Airplane Mode, Airplane Mode Radios)
• higher res launcher icon for xhdpi displays
• action Run Shell: parameters Store Errors In (stderr), Store Output In ( stderr, replaces previous 'Store Result In')
• Events Alarm/AlarmDone: attempted support for Sony Ericsson alarm package
• action Newsrob: added Sync Changed Only option
• action/event/state selection search filter
• State: Dreaming (JB)
• Search: include variable tags and localized names
• State: USB Plugged: added device class specification and extra detection methods
• action HTTP Post attempted workaround for Android EOFException bug
• javascript: mediaControl: support for play
• action plugin selection: added Dash Clock to select list
• event: Intent Received
• userguide page Intents
• multi-selection and dragging in task edit screens
• Notify actions: action buttons (JellyBean+)

Bugfixes

• Goto: End Of Loop: was repeating loop instead of moving to following action
• set max priority for Notify actions to 5
• changing task names wasn't changing referring actions correctly
• Office Talk: wasn't allowing selection of status for Set Availability mode
• Delete File, use root: if rm fails with -f param, try without
• TTS initialization had a race condition
• app select: was showing Tasker's dummy docking activities
• workaround for JB Recent Task window swipes killing monitor service next time it got a signal
• removed text completion almost everywhere
• Delete File: with Use Root: continue even if can't see file (could be in root-only dir)
• disabled actions that wait for completion were producing a (harmless) error message
• cloned profile didn't inherit enabled/disabled state and run count limitations
• app creation: scenes kill button (bottom-right cross) wasn't being export
• (launch-time copies of) local vars from the parent task are available in scene event tasks (inc. via Menu action)
• app creation: READ_CALL_LOG permission for Call Log event/state
• app creation: WRITE_CALL_LOG permission for Call Log action
• some spurious error logging about missing activities in kid apps
• action Notify,NotifyVibrate etc: Number parameter works again, but number displayed in pulldown (system standard)
• data loading: was crashing on well-formed XML that had certain attributes missing
• action Media Control: was crashing on Play with Simulate Media Button selected, substitute TogglePause instead
• Run Shell: wasn't writing international characters correctly
• action List Files: Variable arg was being replaced, led to bad var names
• media player completion-signalling disruption
• stop exe thread looper on thread exit where needed
• Take Photo: screen going off while writing/scanning image was leading to 'cancelled' state
• attempt to fix Play Ringtone stopping after short time intermittently
• some states when in the same profile were monitoring simultaneously
• state Light Level: throttle sensor update reaction to once per 2 seconds
• HTML Popup: wasn't replacing variables
• beta: state Power: wireless charging wasn't being detected with Any selected
• Search: wasn't picking up variable names in action conditions
• Event: Battery Full: bug in repeat-trigger prevention
• State: Battery Level: reduce processing cost by testing against last level seen
• Notify actions: for icon: wasn't accepting manual URI specification with variables
• action Take Photo: was complaining about unsupported auto modes when no modes are supported
• App Factory: action Notify Vibrate: needed permission wasn't being included

Changes

• Zoom Element XXX actions: removed word Element from name
• action Say, Say To File: use API 14 TTS engine selection
• catch internal MapActivity errors caused by strange device configurations
• mention task name in task deletion confirmation
• allow timer widget resizing
• action/event/state code select: use red text for unavailable codes instead of *
• partially updated de translation
• variable filter buttons: remember state across app launches
• variables tab: Referenced filter disabled for non-base projects
• references to direct-purchase version
• took Encryption category out of Play Store version completely
• action Mobile Data APN: changed name to APNDroid, moved to 3rd Party category, mark unvailable where relevant
• Perform Task: Return parameter: handle (single) array references (e.g.; %arr(%index))
• refreshed es,fr,zh,de
• took out Click and Long-Click prefs
• took out confirmation for unlinking named tasks from profile
• pref: ask profile name: defaults to no
• accept upto 8 digits for UI lock code
• added content descriptions for many image-based controls (accessibility aid)
• improved disabled icon
• task edit: test button: use passive (i.e. modified-in-UI-not-yet-saved) data for scenes and their called tasks where possible
• Send Intent: > 16, do Android normalize on specified MimeType, otherwise -> lower case
• Text Elements: Resize To Fit: err on the side of making sure all the text is visible
• AppFactory beta compatibility and modifications for appropriate theming
• %CLIP now dynamic and monitored
• maths eval: catch explicitly infinite and not-a-number results and warn concisely
• states with integer ranges accept min = max
• action Menu: require at least one item
• converted non-trivial dialogs to full activities
• (internal) converted dialog interfaces to post ICS
• converted time select screen to native time picker widget
• removed pre-ICS backwards compat code, small app startup speedup
• added: object version check during load, displays details of data incompatibility instead of just 'failed to load data'
• Run Shell: may return output lines even when the command exited with a non-zero result code
• don't broadcast %QTIME changes, happens with every action, very limited use, preparation for local var
• Task Edit: kill button shows when a Play Ringtone action is still in effect, and stops the playback
• switch to UTF-8 for url encoding/decoding (non-western language support)
• action Run Shell: Store Result In now refers to the result *code*
• action Run Shell: small efficiency improvement, don't collect stdout unless requested
• refreshed fr,es,zh translations, thanks for your work guys
• builtin icons: store IDs instead of names, futureproofing
• allow full-screen scene editing (by overlaying toolbars)
• changed appwidget layout to better fit vanilla Android
• State: Power: use power connection signal instead of battery level signals for check trigger
• Event: Battery Overheating: prevent repeat-triggering until status has changed
• Event: Battery Changed: prevent repeat-triggering until actual battery level value has changed
• treat wireless charging as 'plugged in' for various purposes e.g. sensor enable when display off
• action Run Shell: doesn't block action from other tasks
• Menu / Prefs / Action / Camera Delay: accept 0
• state USB Plugged -> USB Connected
• WebView scene element supports variable replacement in Source parameter (untested)
• state Cell Near: cell specifications are now simple matches (e.g. GSM:786.*)