Tasker 6.1 – New App Icons, Keep Accessibility Alive, Quick Setting Tiles, Flashlight and more!

A new version of Tasker is out! Download it here!

New App Icons

Color

Themed

Tasker now has some more modern looking icons in both color and themed versions!

Thanks to Christian for the icons!

Accessibility Services Management

In the recent years Android has been notorious for systematically “killing” apps in the background, leaving both users and developers frustrated.

Tasker 6.1 introduces a new feature called Keep Accessibility Running which aims to mitigate that by automatically restarting any service that has been stopped. And that’s not just for the Tasker Accessibility Service, but for all apps on your device!

Moreover, you now also have a Tasker action that allows you to stop or start any of these services at will!

Quick Setting Tile Improvements and Additions

Tasker now has much more flexible quick setting tiles, allowing you to directly set the tile’s labels and icons and also perform different tasks or actions on long and double click!

Check out this this example project that allows you to control your Wifi connection from a Quick Setting Tile.

My next goal will be to add more tiles to Tasker so that you can do even more with these! 🙂

Notification Icons

You can now use any kind of image for your notification icons! They can be local files, direct web URLs or even text! For example, you could have a weather forecast notification that shows you the temperature right on your status bar!

Flashlight Brightness

You can now totally control the brightness of your phone’s flashlight with the Torch action! Make as dim or as bright as you want!

Progress Dialog

Instead of your longer tasks simply running in the background with no visual feedback, you can now show a dialog while they’re doing something!

You can use your custom icons as the progress animation or even use a progress bar if you know how long your task will take!

Convert Into Task

You can now select multiple actions in a task and simply create a new task with them. Will be very handy for parts of tasks that can be re-used in other tasks, or for tasks that are too long and you want to split them out into subtasks!