AutoLocation Changelog – Tasker and Join

Added %alupdatetype variable that you can access in a task associated with an “AutoLocation Location” condition. This contains the update type of the requested location.

Added 2 new possible activities: Walking and Running.
Added new “AutoLocation Activities” Tasker Event that gets fired every time a new activity is recognized.
Made Activity monitor react to all possible detected activities. What I mean is, when an activity is detected, there are various possible activities that are detected simultaneously, with different confidence levels. Now, your Tasker condition is compared with all these activities. Previously only the activity with the most confidence would be used. This may make it work in situations that it didn’t before
In Tasks that react to the Activity monitor, you have new variables that reflect all the possible detected activities: %alactivities(), %alactivitydescs(), %activityconfidences()
Added leaderboard support. Unlocked achievements will count towards your total score on the leaderboard.

Added option to generate a Google Street View image in the “AutoLocation Info” Tasker action
Fixed issue with Geofence Monitor restarting multiple times
Fixed some bugs related to Geofence Events
Fixed bug related to the Wait Time on geofences where status would sometimes become unsynchronized.

Forced exiting geofences when losing internet connection. Android did this automatically on older versions but on recent updates it doesn’t anymore, so now I force it.
Added option to force AutoLocation Location monitor to help figure out if you’re in a geofence or not, disabled by default, so it doesn’t happen automatically

Added new “AutoLocation Geofences” Tasker event that will fire every time a geofence changes its status so you can detect nested geofences for example.
Added real-time status updates in the “Manage Geofences” screen in the main app so it’s easier to control the status of your geofences.

Added Achievements (only 5 for now, just to test it out)! For example, if you edit a Geofence from Tasker, you’ll get you an achievement. Or if you react to 5 geofences in Tasker you get another achievement. I hope this is a fun way for users to learn and explore AutoLocation. I’ll be adding achievements to all my apps 🙂 Let me know how you like them!
Fixed some properties of the “Generate Map Image” feature
Fixed issue with Geofence Wait Time

Added “Generate Map Image” option in “AutoLocation Info” Tasker action that lets you generate images like these
Added option to retrieve your location in the same task in the “AutoLocation Location” Tasker action, so you can use it right away.
Forced Geofences to update when the location monitor is on. Android should do this by itself, but people were saying it wasn’t happening on their systems. Now I’m doing it manually to make sure that it happens for everyone.
Added option to not exit Geofences when turning the Geofence monitor on or off. This should help make your Tasker profiles not exit undesirably .
“AutoLocation Manage” action now retrieves all information about your geofences and makes it available in the task

Added option to set Wait Time on geofences. This will make geofences enter or exit only if you’re in/out of them for a specified amount of time.
Added check to alert user if Network locations or wifi is disabled when starting the geofence monitor
Created “AutoLocation Location” Tasker Event
Will only report locations with the location monitor if they are at most 10 seconds old

Fixed “AutoLocation Info” action where you couldn’t lookup points of interest and set the “Sort By” to “Distance” and use “Radius” at the same time

Added new “AutoLocation Mock Locations” action. This allows you to set mock locations on your Android Device from Tasker
“AutoLocation Location” monitor now records your locations and sets an %altrackingdata variable in the Entry Task of an “AutoLocation Location” profile. You can then use this data to replay your movements with the “AutoLocation Mock Locations”, or you can share this information with other people, or plot it on a map so you can see a visual representation of where you were.
You need to enable “Allow Mock Locations” in the Android developer settings for the “AutoLocation Mock Locations” action to work.

Fixed bug with driving activity where sometimes it would not be correctly recognized.

Added a new “AutoLocation Orientation” condition that allows to do stuff like in this video:
Added “AutoLocation Orientation” action to turn on or off the Orientation Service

Added new AutoLocation Info: you can now get the list of all your configured geofences, including their status, and distance to a given point. This list is ordered by distance.

Allows for stuff like this!

Added new Tasker action “AutoLocation Info” where you can get various location related info. For now you have Distance calculation, Reverse Geocoding (look up the address for given coordinates), Nearby Point of Interest Lookup and Geofence Querying (so you can know the location of your geofences)
Added new Tasker action “AutoLocation Map” where you can set a destination and then either show the map to that destination or navigate to it directly
Activity and Geofence monitors now start automatically on boot if they were started before rebooting
Fixed a bunch of stuff about the Geofence Editor
Fixed crashing for Activity Monitor

Added a new “Low Power” mode to the location monitor. Should have city level accuracy which is considered to be about 10km accuracy. Using a coarse accuracy such as this often consumes less power.
Fixed some bugs related to Geofence managing