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AutoTools
The Swiss Army Knife for Tasker. AutoTools contains a myriad of features and functions that add tonnes of missing features as well as making simple otherwise complex tasks. From easily sorting out arrays, to converting text, time & numbers, having a number of pre-made and simple to use dialogues, accessing secure settings on your device, reading and writing JSON data, extracting HTML from content and sites and using many pre-made web screens.
In App configuration
The app has some options that can be configured by the user.
These are options that tune how the app functions when used through Tasker.
In some cases, there are stand-alone features that do not require Tasker to use.
Manage Web Screens
This area allows you to download and update web-screens. There are already a good handful of web screens available for you to use.
Tasker Options
More soon!
Permissions
AutoTools has a few permission requirements.
Runtime permissions
- Contacts
- Used to find accounts for web screens
- Location
- Used for WiFi/BT actions
- Microphone
- Use voice input on Dialogues and web screens
- Storage
- To save your web screens
- Telephone
- To directly place calls
Other permissions
- ADB Permision WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS
- To change settings values on your device
- ADB Permission READ_LOGS
- To read logcat
- ADB Permission CHANGE_CONFIGURATION
- To change system locale
- ADB Permission DUMP
- To run dumpsys
Special permissions
- Will benefit being excluded from doze
- SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW
- Draw over other apps for web screens
Trackers
- Google Ads
- To display ads in free version
Supplemental Documentation
HTML Read
HTML web scraping feature to extract images and text from webpages to use in your tasks.
This feature has both simple and advanced features for both beginners and experts alike. Javascript is supported as well as Desktop / Mobile versions of pages are usable. The difficulty of this function varies depending on the web page and content you wish to view.
