Release Notes

11/10/2014: v4.5u1

• change: listMarginWidthPercent is written to prefs file so user doesn't need to create new entry
• change: app creation: Debug Version option no longer causes debuggable to be set in the manifest (prevented Play Store publication)
• bugfix: Text element in scene: links were causing crash
• bugfix: BT Near: bugged in some earlier Android versions
• bugfix: scene destruction: wasn't tidying up event handlers correctly which was producing warnings
• bugfix: scene element TextEdit: crash due to cursor movement in some circumstance
• bugfix: catch exception selecting sub-activities for some apps
• bugfix: catch exception when state plugin result comes in for profile that doesn't exist anymore
• bugfix: better handle exceptions that can occur loading bad config data

07/10/2014: v4.5

Highlights

• switched to Google Maps API v2

Incompatibilities

• app creation: users of maps in scenes will need to get a Google Maps API v2 key

Removed

• Element Add Geomarker: parameters Label, Label Colour (not supported by new Maps API v2)

Added

• location edit: optionally long-click and drag on current location marker to move it
• map element: toggle parameter for roads
• action Element Map Control: Hide/Show Roads, Enable/Disable Compass/Tilt/Rotation/Zoom Gestures, Hide Zoom Controls modes
• location edit: show lat/lng at top, editable
• %WIFII: channel number when wifi is connected (Android L+)
• actions Timer Widget Control and Timer Widget Set
• action Variable Subtract: Wrap Around parameter
• builtin local array variable %caller (caller trace for current task) (see Variables section of Userguide)
• Location Edit: menu option to enter text address
• plugins: action/event/state edit screens: show relevant variables from plugins
• action Element Image: usable for Button and Slider elements
• Test Scene: width and height

Bugfixes

• patch for Android PRNG bug (may improve random number generation on some devices)
• Set Widget Icon/Label: spurious error message when an anonymous widget was present on home screen
• Search: bad bottom button alignment in some languages
• main screen, variables tab: show max 500 characters of a variable contents (longer vars can lock up UI)
• monitor was hanging under high system load sometimes, improved broadcast handling efficiency
• task select list: was generating spurious warning on all Tasker UI themes except Light
• another attempted fix for ANRs during plugin response processing
• BT Near: workaround for Android bug reporting device type as unknown from an LE scan
• event Received Text: MMS wasn't working on 4.1 and earlier devices
• %WIFII: was not converting many frequencies to the correct channel
• action Test Tasker: action/event/state selection had bad title
• TextEdit element: cursor was not being moved to end when text was set
• action Popup: several local variables weren't being set on timeout with a default item selected (e.g. %tap_label)
• app creation: JavaScriptlet references to showScene and performTask: include relevant task/scene in kid
• scene element text: Vertical Fit Mode: Reduce Text Size: improved fitting algorithm
• app creation: slider element icons were not being exported or applied correctly
• profile list on/off buttons could have labels in incorrect language
• failure to import old data due to over-enthusiastic data verification checks
• app creation: JS func getLocation: include coarse and fine location permissions, relevant features
• action Element Value: wasn't setting initial value of spinner that had never been displayed when filled from variable
• %PRESSURE: wasn't being populated if not pressure state defined
• app creation: images in scene element Layout parameters weren't being packaged in kid apk
• problem with monitor being killed when UI exited on LG G2 / 4.4.2, possibly other devices
• scene Text elements with Scrolling enabled were blocking input to underlying elements even when hidden
• action Scan Card wasn't handling absolute paths

Changes

• use holo dark for default theme on L devices until a final L ROM is available
• Tasker no longer requires Google Maps (or Play Services) to be installed (but map-based functionality will not be accessible if they are missing)
• multiple map elements are possible in a scene
• change: state Wifi Near: channel max upped to 196
• change: profile list on/off in German = Ein/Aus
• change: read list drag margin width percent from sharedprefs if present, so customizable for root users (integer key listMarginWidthPercent)

Developers

• invoke tasks: disallowed: Write File, Read File, Read Binary, Write Binary actions (permission abuse)
• synchronous action plugins: were stopping on RESULT_CODE_FAILED even if Continue On Error was set

Android 1.6+ Devices

Additions

Bugfixes

• action Take Picture: was never using auto-focus, switch to auto-focus when camera parameters specify it
• scene elements Text/TextEdit/Button: local variable as Text/Label field wasn't being replaced

Changes

Removed