After 2 more weeks working on Scenes V2 I have another update! 😁 It completely changes how interactions are handled in the scenes.

Important Note: since the underlying mechanisms to handle interactions changed so much, your existing Scenes V2 might not work with this new update. Sorry for the inconvenience!

And I snuck in a few other new Tasker features too!

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Note: Google Play might take a while to update. If you don’t want to wait for the Google Play update, get it right away . (Direct-Purchase Version )

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The Editor's 8 Tabs

When you select a component you now get up to 8 tabs in the editor:

• Tree

• Properties

• Modifiers

• States

• Events

• Actions

• JSON

• AI

I added the States, Events and Actions and thought it was better to separate the Properties and Modifiers tab, because the properties tab was getting too crowded and it just makes more sense.

States

Each editable component now has states. These can be monitored and put into variables that you can then use inside the Scene's UI itself, but can be also be sent to Tasker.

In the UI you can use them to control other component's states (eg, have a checkbox control whether a button is visible or not), and can also be gotten as screen outputs in the Tasker actions.

States allow you to control many things that you would previously need separate tasks for.

If you have more than 1 component with the same variable in its state, an Array will be created for all those values when passed on to Tasker.

Events

Events are a bit like states, but they allow you to monitor when something happens, not just the state of something.

We already had a limited version of events before, but now it's expanded to support custom per-component events, like Text Input's text changed event, or a Switch's checked change event.

You can setup events to call Tasker tasks, commands or close the scene.

Events can also be configured to only trigger depending on variables, so, for example, you could have a button that only closes the screen after a few variables have a certain value,. and these variables can be driven by other component's states.

There's a Tasker event too, where you can trigger tasks based on changes in your Scenes V2!

Actions

Actions allow you to change the state of a component in a precise way.

Right now, only checkboxes and switches have an action: toggle. The toggle action allows you to toggle the state of the checkbox/switch from a task without having to know its current state.

Actions will be very useful in the future for example to control the playback of videos, refresh the page on a WebView and much more!

There's a Tasker action to run Scene V2 actions!

Drag Bar Actions

The bar between the preview and the tabs below allows you to very quickly change the type of the component (this was previously in the Properties tab) and select the parent component. This is super handy in certain situations where the child component fills up the entire parent so you have no way to select the parent in the preview.

The Drag Bar also always shows you the type and name of the selected component.

Input Texts In Overlays

I thought it wasn't possible, but it is! You can now use functional Input Text components while displaying your scenes as overlays!

Java Code Integration

All SceneV2 Tasker actions can now be called from the Java Code action! Scenes V2 updates have been so optimized that you can use Java Code to update a scene at 60fps and it'll do it fluidly!

New Components

You get a bunch of new components to play with:

• Card

• Checkbox

• Navigation Bar

• Navigation Item

• Icon Button

Animated GIF Support

Image components now support looping animated gifs!

Templates

You can now save any layout as a template, so when building a new UI you can start off with something you choose instead of just the 2 default layouts!

"Component Only" AI Mode

Now you can ask the AI to only generate a change in the selected component, instead of the whole screen. This allows for MUCH FASTER generations, that don't mess with what you already have.

Variable Resolution in Preview

You now have an option to make variables resolve in the preview directly so you can see exactly what the screen will look like

Pin Test Variables

You can persist Test Variables so you don't lose them every time you leave the editor

Default Display Mode and Show Scene Menu Option

You can set the default display mode of a Scene V2 in its screen properties which will then be used as the mode when you use the new option to show the screen in Tasker's Main Screen menu.

Keep Display On

You also have the new option to keep your display on while the scene is showing, in the screen properties

Undo/Redo History

If you long-click undo or redo in the editor you can go back or forward multiple steps at once!

Updates Outside of Scenes V2

• Added option in Wifi Connected state to avoid location permissions

• Added Start Early and End Later arguments in the Calendar Entry state

• Added ACCESS_LOCATION_EXTRA_COMMANDS permission to Tasker to allow for some advance GPS related stuff

and more! Check below for all of them!

Full Changelog

• Major Scenes V2: Back compatibility for interactions is broken: you need to redo your interactions in Scenes V2

• Major Scenes V2: editor: there are now 8 tabs: Tree, Properties, Modifiers, States, Events, Actions, JSON and AI

• Major Scenes V2: editor: allow changing the selected component's type and going to the parent from the drag bar separating the preview and tabs below

• Major Scenes V2: Added support for component states, events, actions,

• Major Scenes V2: when multiple input type component specify the same variable output binding, an array with that name is created with all the values from those components

• Major Scenes V2: make Input Texts work on overlays

• Major Scenes V2: Added Run Scene V2 Action Tasker action

• Major Scenes V2: Added Scene V2 Event Tasker event

• Major Scenes V2: added Java Code functions to interact with Scenes V2

• Major Scenes V2: added Checkbox component

• Major Scenes V2: Added the Card component

• Major Scenes V2: Added Icon Button component

• Major Scenes V2: Added Navigation Bar component and Navigation Item component

• Major Scenes V2: Added new Modifier: Blur

• Major Scenes V2: added animated gif support for the Image component

• Major Scenes V2: editor: add option for users to save their layouts as templates so they can quickly get started when creating a new scene

• Major Scenes V2: editor: Added Component Only option to AI tab

• Major Scenes V2: editor: Added Add As Parent option when adding new components

• Major Scenes V2: editor: Added Add Before and Add After to container elements

• Major Scenes V2: editor: when selecting an element in the tree and adding a new one show Clone Before and Clone After options

• Major Scenes V2: Made Variable Component compatible with Tasker Arrays

• Major Scenes V2: Made simple texts expand to Text components in Scenesv2

• Medium Scenes V2: Added button in Show When fields to easily enter expressions

• Medium Scenes V2: Added option to enable Real-Time Variable Resolution in Preview

• Medium Scenes V2: Allow setting multiple result bindings for input elements

• Medium Scenes V2: When a swipe is performed and a task is called, the swipe path is sent to the task as 2 variable arrays %swipe_path_x() and %swipe_path_y()

• Medium Scenes V2: add menu option in main Tasker screen to show it directly on long-click

• Medium Scenes V2: added Keep Display On option in Screen properties

• Medium Scenes V2: added option to pin test variables in the editor

• Medium Scenes V2: allow events to be filtered by variables set by other events on the same screen

• Medium Scenes V2: editor: Added undo/redo long-click to more easily undo/redo more steps at once

• Medium Scenes V2: moved Send To Elements option to component states

• Scenes V2 editor: when in single compoent design mode, allow root component to be swithced with non-container components

• Scenes V2: Get Scenes V2 Values action now ends in error if scene with the specified Id is not found

• Scenes V2: Add Spaced By option in Columns and Rows

• Scenes V2: Add default Display Mode option in screen config which will be used if no display mode is used when showing it

• Scenes V2: Added Reference Width in Screen Properties so you can then set numbers as pr numbers that will automatically scale with the device's width

• Scenes V2: Allow inline scenes to monitor global variables

• Scenes V2: Allow loading of scenev2 with image with no url

• Scenes V2: Allow updating all visible scenev2s if no screen id specified in Update Scene V2 action

• Scenes V2: Correctly apply Auto Dismiss Timeout when Continue Task Immediately in enabled

• Scenes V2: Correctly show transparent backgrounds for Scenesv2 when applicable

• Scenes V2: Don't show Scenev2 scenes in Scenev1 actions

• Scenes V2: Fixed getting some images in Scenev2 from the web

• Scenes V2: Fixed how bubbles and the preview look by default by applying Material colors even on Columns/Rows, etc.

• Scenes V2: Fixed name when cloning a Scenev2

• Scenes V2: Fixed some crashes related to color picking

• Scenes V2: Removed Transition animation from Update Scene V2 Overlay action

• Scenes V2: Show placeholder image when no image is loaded in an image component

• Scenes V2: When updating an overlay, only change the actual value the user has passed

• Scenes V2: added label property in text inputs

• Scenes V2: added missing accessibility labels in editor

• Scenes V2: allow multiple event types for each event handler

• Scenes V2: editor: added test variables to the variable picker

• Scenes V2: editor: fix changing trigger type in Action handler scrolling the UI up

• Scenes V2: editor: fix drag-dropping into components with multiple slots

• Scenes V2: editor: fixed recently created tasks not showing up in the task picker

• Scenes V2: editor: fixed sliders in modifiers like Opacity and others not working properly

• Scenes V2: editor: fixed some issues with the color picker

• Scenes V2: editor: moved Drag Handle and Haptic Feedback modifiers to the Modifiers tab

• Scenes V2: editor: when editing from a Tasker action, allow changing name of screen

• Scenes V2: fix detection of dismiss actions to suggest the root element long click dismiss on overlays

• Scenes V2: fix showing an overlay with an id and then a dialog/fullscreen with same id not dismissing overlay

• Scenes V2: fixed Tasker actions sometimes not waiting for scenes to complete showing

• Scenes V2: fixed and ordered output variables

• Scenes V2: fixed calling tasks with variables, where the values of variables are defined by variables themselves

• Scenes V2: fixed cleaning up dismissed scenes in some situations

• Scenes V2: fixed components going away > coming back resetting their values

• Scenes V2: fixed converting from Text to TextInput and vice-versa

• Scenes V2: fixed overlays Show When not working properly sometimes

• Scenes V2: if an overlay has drag and swipe enabled on the same element, you need to long-click > drag to change the overlay position

• Scenes V2: if user pastes a component in the JSON editor instead of a screen, switch to component mode

• Scenes V2: in editor, don't auto focus on main component property if just the properties tab was clicked

• Scenes V2: only add swipe related variables in Scenes V2 action variable list if the scene actually uses swipes

• Scenes V2: only show undo/redo buttons when there's history and then always show them

• Scenes V2: optimize performance of sending result to elements

• Scenes V2: optimize some components' rendering

• Scenes V2: tried to fix overlays showing over the notch on some devices.

• Scenes V2: updated under the hood value updating code to make it super fast so you can update the UI from Java Code really fast and make stuff like Timers that update very frequently look correct and fast

• Try to fix main screen not going away for some users when exiting

• Try to get a better OOM report

• Added Check After Screen Unlock option to Wifi Connected state to avoid needed location permission when user doesn't want it

• Added Start Early and End Later args to the Calendar Entry state

• Added ACCESS_LOCATION_EXTRA_COMMANDS permission

• Added Export AI System Instructions to File in Java Code action helper

• Added option in Tasker Preferences to never use Shizuku, even if available

• Added Never Use Shizuku option to Set Tasker Pref action

• Fix bug in Arrays Merge action in some situations with JSON

• Fixed Java Code action not setting return value if already set

• Fixed Kill App action removing app from recents in some situations

• Fixed Action Kill App when using root or Shizuku if Tasker is device owner

• Fixed bug with parsing in Arrays Merge action

• Fixed crash saving when Scene v1 is too big

• Fixed some Tasker dialogs being automatically dismissed when a keyboard is opened

• Made it possible to not grant all permissions when importing from Taskernet and be able to import anyway.

• OOM Errors: add more system details

Let me know how you like this update! I feel like I'm now getting to a point where I have a solid "base" for Scenes V2 to build upon.

Enjoy! 😎