Tasker 5.1.4b

· Moved to runtime permissions (Android 6+). Will now ask for needed permissions when your Tasker data is saved (main app tick or backing out of Tasker).
· manifest permission WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS: enable via adb command - adb shell pm grant net.dinglisch.android.taskerm android.permission.WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS
· action Input/Lock Screen (Android P+)
· action Input/System Screenshot (Android P+)

* bugfix: crash when not having WAKE_LOCK permission
* bugfix: custom theme accent colour: removed divider line when in action mode (couldn't set to custom accent)
* bugfix: event Intent Received: extras with short names (xx) were being badly renamed to variables (var_var_in)
* bugfix: location context: Menu / Address: empty dialog on recent Android versions
* bugfix: location context: Menu / Address: dialog height matches number of entries
* bugfix: actions with numeric parameters accepting variables: was showing 'Unset' instead of variable name
* bugfix: removed 3 unneeded images from APK
* bugfix: app creation: more than around 10 images weren't being shown (hard limit is now 652)
* bugfix: app creation: actions SQL Query & Play Ringtone: wasn't including READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission
* bugfix: app creation: extra permissions: fill-in missing prefixes of known permissions
* bugfixes: attempted fixes for dev console exception reports
* change: clone named profile: show popup under profiles tab, wasn't visible next to item on a few ROMs
* added: action Test Media: mode Music Playing Position (tracks started with action Music Play only)

* color selector for theme accent

* bugfixes and minor changes to 5.0

Highlights

switched to material design icon and themes (Android 5.0+)
improved presentation and interactions
added approx 900 material design icons, freely selectable colours
added 4 themes at Prefs / UI / Theme (Android 5.0+)
support for (customisable) Quick Settings (Android 7.0+) and App Shortcuts (Android 7.1.1+)
Video element for scenes with fine control
Incompatibilities

in %caller variable, changed tag of notification button source to 'nbutton'
in %caller variable, nbutton source indicates label, if present
Notify actions and Tasker status bar icon: may display only in white on some (Android 7.0+?) devices, even if they previously displayed as colour on the same device and ROM
states Wifi Connected, Ethernet Connected, Mobile data: if using a VPN simultaneously, the new Active parameter should be set to 'Any'
Added

Prefs / UI / Icon Colour From Theme (Android 5.0+)
action Test Net: mode Auto-Sync
action Element Web Control: Zoom In/Out accept optional values (Android 5.0+)
action Net / Test Net, various BT options
Prefs / UI / List Item Dragging: option Only When Selecting (and is the new default)
app creation: Auto-Install checkbox
events Package Updated, New Package: added Package parameter
event Package Removed, Package Updated, New Package: added selectors
many extra control labels for talkback users
action Set Tasker Pref: Lock Code (for UI)
app icon for material, thanks to Guus Apeldoorn & Fabian Doornbos (Android 5.0+)
app creation: added Target SDK Version to child config screen (Advanced)
Prefs / UI / Hardware Acceleration (not in Beginner Mode)
action Test Element, parameter Max Value (elements: Video, Slider)
action Element Visibility, parameter Continue Task Immediately (when animation > 0)
action Show Scene, parameter Display As, option Activity, No Status, No Bar, No Nav (Android 4.4+)
scene element Video
action Scenes / Element Video Control
wherever a simple match is possible,~R at the start indicates a regex match instead, !~R indicates a negative regex match
states Wifi Connected, Ethernet Connected, Mobile Network: parameter Active (Android 6+)
action Variable Clear: parameter Local Variables Only if Pattern Matching enabled
support for multiple simultaneous network types (Android 6+)
state / VPN Connected (Android 6+)
event New Notification: Messages parameter for messaging-style notifications (Android 7.0+)
action Tasker / Show Prefs
action Tasker / Show Runlog
action Tasker / Edit Task
action Tasker / Edit Scene
Prefs / Action / App Shortcuts (Android 7.1.1+)
action Tasker / Set App Shortcuts, for Tasker or apps created by Tasker (Android 7.1.1+)
Prefs / Action / Quick Settings (Android 7.1+)
action Tasker / Setup Quick Setting, (Android 7.1+)
action Take Screenshot (Android 5.0+)
action Set Alarm: parameters Ringtone and Vibrate (Android 4.4+)
action Show Alarms (Android 4.4+)
action Cancel Alarm (Android 6.0+)
Menu / More / Android Settings / Write Settings (Android 6.0+)
Menu / More / Android Settings / Draw Over Other Apps (Android 6.0+)
launcher shortcuts: now support all icon types
launcher widgets: don't show 'no image' option in icon select, it's required
action Test File: test file existence
scene element Switch
action Settings / Notification Listener Settings (Android 5.1+)
action Settings / Print Settings (Android 4.4+)
scene element long-click event: show visible indication when event triggered (elements where previsouly a short click was indicated)
scene element slider: background tab
round Tasker launcher icons (Android 7.1.1+)
Prefs / Monitor: option Show Notification Icon
task edit screen: menu item Action Numbers
Profile, Task, Scene, Var tabs can be long-clicked for options
manifest permission WRITE_CALL_LOG: used for Call Log action, Android previously granted it without needing declaration
manifest permission READ_CALL_LOG: used for monitoring call log changes e.g. event Missed Call, Android previously granted it without needing declaration
Bugfixes

S7, maybe some other 7+ devices: some locale-based formats were being set incorrectly (Android 7.0+)
app selection list: some entries had no label
action Input / Back Button: was going Home instead
app creation: action Wifi Tether: on some devices required WRITE_SETTINGS permission
action javascript(let): function selector showed wrong type for 3rd parameter of elemVisibility
file actions: standard file extensions were being automatically added to target name in some circumstances
action Airplane Mode: spurious error when used with root (API 5.0+)
crash on exit from scene editor if referenced task was only on SD not configured data
app creation: text elements in layout scenes with font specified, font wasn't being exported
lock/unlock project,profile,task: display wasn't updating other implicitly-locked tasks, profiles, scenes etc
action SQL Query: in Raw mode, some insert statements weren't opening the DB writeable
action Array Set: variables in Splitter parameter weren't being replaced
calling settings directly, lock code wasn't being asked for even when set
app creation: Start System Timer wasn't including the needed permission
event Package Removed: was triggering also on update
app creation: wasn't exporting accessibility service for several actions needing it
adapt (new) shortcut icons to screen density when loading
switching to variable tab was causing data change to be registered
actions Set Default Ringtone, Play Ringtone: in action edit screen selection wasn't working correctly
prefs screen wasn't hiding beginner options in beginner mode
was getting haptic feedback on profile list irrespective of pref setting
talkback: prevent double announcement of app name on launch
don't display Move To Top action mode menu option if item is already at top
app creation: don't cancel when pressing back after successful generation
Changes

apply v2 apk signing to Tasker and AppFactory apks
app creation: apply v2 apk signing to kid apps (Android 8.0+)
dragging over projects gives haptic feedback if enabled
action Silent Mode: changed name to Vibrate Mode (Android 6.0+)
various content display tweaks
default Prefs / UI / List Item Drag Margin to Left, Invisible
improved drag handling, drag-and-scroll now variable speed
all event specifying an app: multiple apps can be specified, only one must match
changed handling for lists in action and scene elements (e.g. action Menu) to match other lists in UI, including multi-select
app selection list: improved label content
action Show Scene, parameter Display As, changed 'Full Display' to 'No Status'
app creation: support larger projects (still depends on project contents to some extent)
action Java Function: in tasks executed by non-overlay scene element events, CONTEXT object is the associated activity
task edit: only show an icon for action type if it's a setting action
scenes: try to always use theme that best matches device default, also when editing
action Mobile data: available again for TEKXodus ROMs
group builtin icons by Material, Holo and Misc, with subgroups for Material and Holo
various lists were respecting system setting instead of Tasker setting
support detection of Magisk package for enabling root support
scene element EditText: event Text Change: changes are buffered, event may now contain several accumulated changes at once
Run Shell: changed LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /vendor/lib*:/system/lib*
changed max aspect ration to 2.1 to support wider screens like S8 without letterboxing (also for kid apps)
action Scan Card, name changed to Scan Media
use system cache dir instead of private for most tmp files
new profile,task etc: popup anchors to top tab instead of + button
monitor notification icon: option to reset to default
new high-density notification bar icon
.icn dir: support for .jpg and .jpeg extensions
action Display / Test Display: Resolution -> Available Resolution
HTML info screens: conform to theme colours
File Select dialog: back button means accept
Variable Split, Array Set: param splitter: accept newlines
tweaked widget layout
action Wait: handle singular/plural in description
moved Tasker/log.txt to Tasker/log/tasker.txt, logs in old location auto-deleted
lots of historical references to 'SD Card' in help texts/userguide now refer to 'internal storage' or similar
task edit screen: Margins toggle
actions javascript(let): Continue On Error parameter
colour picker dialog: text entry field, rearranged a little, added landscape layout
action Set Wallpaper, parameter Continue On Error
action Display / Test Display: Hardware Resolution (i.e. including nav bar)
missing talkback labels for some UI elements
task/profile/scene multi-select option: Move To Project
selecting event/state/action: button to toggle list view
monitor notification action buttons disabled by default (too many accidental presses on Disable)
Removed

action Wifi Tether is no longer possible without root on Android 7. Root users can install the plugin Nougat Tasker Tethering Toggle from Play Store (and then select it instead of the Wifi Tether action).
action Set Tasker Pref cannot be called from external app
scene element Image, parameter Click Colour: was never implemented...
Developers

relevant variables from plugin instances were not being passed to other plugin instances when editing
action plugin variables: passing null value for e.g. %arr when no var %arr exists will result in attempted deletion of indices of %arr (%arr1, %arr2 etc)

beta: bugfix: variable sharing between calling task and created scene was not working correctly
beta: bugfix: Play Store versions: accelerometer for movement detection was being setup correctly
bugfix: menu/spinner element entries weren't scaling up with element bounds when displayed or imported on different device
bugfix: Text elements text size wasn't scaling up with bounds on display
bugfix: state Display Orientation: had no help text

beta: bugfix: shell-related actions: give 64-bit lib dirs preference to 32-bit
beta: bugfix: Test File: type was failing without root
beta: bugfix: events with boolean params were giving spurious warnings
beta: bugfix: Delete File: was failing completely
beta: bugfix: Notify actions: selection No Image for action items was crashing on execution
beta: bugfix: HTTP Get/Head: argument error
bugfix: some file actions using root were not testing preconditions with root
bugfix: some file actions using root were not quoting special shell characters in file names
bugfix: workaround for cell location update crashing monitor service on Android 5.1
bugfix: app creation: missing permission for event Received Data SMS
bugfix: %PACTIVE, %PENABLED: entries were in largely random order

- beta: bugfix: anything related to system settings was failing

- bugfix: various problems with scene Text elements with HTML formatting specified
- bugfix: plugins: selection problem with multiple versions of a plugin on device
- bugfix: app creation: was dropping GET_TASKS permission prior to Lollipop instead of other way round
- bugfix: action Java Function: bug evaluating java objects as string constants in some cases
- bugfix: non-ASCII characters in some HTML texts on some devices were not displaying correctly
- bugfix: app creation: always need include accessibility service if app context present (in case running on Lollipop)
- added: recommended plugin action/event: Synchronize Ultimate
- change: task edit: improved efficiency of display updates when testing task without stepping

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

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)