Wait 500ms

[Thom]

I spent the last 14 hours trying to nail down a problem and finally succeeded.

I have a Profile, Enter Task, Exit Task, Scenes, and support Tasks that I distributer to customers as an app. It manipulates the volume controls and had to be revised with the changes introduced by 5.1.

I develop it on a Turbo (5.1) and test it on the Turbo (5.1), Maxx (4.4.4), and Bionic (4.1.2).

I was monumentally frustrated. Things that ran an hour ago no longer ran. An hour later things that ran an hour ago would not run. Things that ran without a problem inside Tasker failed on one of he phones when the Project was exported as an app and installed on them.

I finally happened on the solution ... the exported app had timing issues when the Profile activated a Task or when one of those Tasks activated another Task.

The solution ... I put a half- second delay (Wait 500ms) as the first action in each Task. After that they ran on all three phones without a hiccup.

I don't remember ever having this problem in the past and wonder if it was introduced with the latest update to App Factory.

... Thom

 

[Thom]

The version that was released today corrected the problems.

I removed the Wait 500ms actions and exported as an app. I then installed the app on the Turbo, Maxx, and Bionic. It runs the same way in all of those as it does inside Tasker on the Turbo.

... Thom