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. Configuration required! HTML/CSS/JSOUP