Tasker è senza dubbio una delle applicazioni più apprezzate dagli utenti che amano personalizzare il proprio smartphone Android e siamo certi che con il nuovo aggiornamento, la versione 5.9, lo sarà ancora di più.
A distanza di un mese dal rilascio della beta 8, è finalmente pronta la versione stabile di questo corposo aggiornamento di Tasker, con il quale vengono introdotte tante novità, così come conferma il changelog ufficiale:
- Added Logcat Entry event which allows you to react to any logcat on your Android system, opening up a whole new world of event/state possibilities in Tasker! Demo here.
- Added Shortcut action which allows you to open an Android shortcut from Tasker. Demo here.
- Media Button
- Added Get Location v2 action: get your current location in a much more accurate and fast way than the old Get Location. Has options to restrict the kind of location you want opening up a whole lot of possibilities! For example, you can make sure that the gotten location has at least a 10 meter accuracy! Demo here.
- Added Pick Location action: pick your location from a map and get the coordinates back in your task. Demo here.
- Added Set Assistant action: set your phone’s assistant (Google, AutoVoice, Tasker, etc). Demo here.
- Added Get Next Alarm
- Added Camera action: enable or disable the camera for all apps on your phone.
- Allow all App related actions to use the app name instead of just the package name.
- Added ability to long click a variable in the Variable Select List to show its value.
- Added Alarm Changed event that triggers whenever an alarm changes on your device.
- Allow Launch App
- Added option In Text Received
- Made Authentication Dialog > Biometric be able to be used with Iris and Face sensors
- Added Confirmation Required and Device Credentials Allowed
- Added option Use Motion Detection to Set Tasker Pref
- Added %new_state variable to the output of the Dark Mode, Camera and NFC actions
- Added option to select the Mode of Base64 Decoding in the Variable Convert action
- Added Pixel 4 specific Custom Setting preferences that you can use with the Custom Setting action, event or state.
- Show active profiles in the notification even if it’s minimized
- Made Tasker able to read and monitor the clipboard in the background on Android 10+
- Added reminder that Pixel users can squeeze their phones to call Tasker as an assistant
- Added ability to specify a directory as the output for a HTTP Request
- Added %http_file_output variable as output in the HTTP Request action so that you can act on the downloaded file more easily when the file name is automatically found by Tasker
- Added Assistant Settings in Tasker > Menu > More > Android Settings
- Added notification when user attempts to clear all variables the “old way” warning user that it doesn’t work that way anymore
- When user sets up Secondary App event on devices ask if user wants to set the double-tap gesture to open Tasker instead of the camera.
Ma le novità di Tasker 5.9 non si limitano a queste, in quanto lo sviluppatore ha anche risolto numerosi bug riscontrati nella precedente release, rendendo l’esperienza complessiva di utilizzo più piacevole e fluida.
Potete scaricare la nuova versione di Tasker da APK Mirror o dal Play Store: