2 issues - widget icons misalignement and crash

[Łukasz Kowalczyk]

1. I've noticed that on my homescreen there's a problem with widget icons misalignement:

http://zapodaj.net/dd877f874b2d6.jpg.html

How to fix this?

2. After restoring whole data from Sd card occasionally I get this error:

http://zapodaj.net/dde26ad62fab2.jpg.html

What does it mean?

[Pent]

1. I've noticed that on my homescreen there's a problem with widget icons misalignement:

http://zapodaj.net/dd877f874b2d6.jpg.html

Because there's no common format for widgets. Use a shortcut if look is the most important thing.

How to fix this?

2. After restoring whole data from Sd card occasionally I get this error:

http://zapodaj.net/dde26ad62fab2.jpg.html

What does it mean?

At some point you've selected a local media image, and at that point Android
grants Tasker access to the image. If you delete Tasker, that granted access
is forgotten by Android, so Tasker can't access the image anymore.

It's a great new system Google introduced a while back which fills me with
delight.

Pent

[Paul Vanderperren]

I have also more than once banged my head against the wall out of frustration regarding this problem, but in the context of cross-device tasker program or child app using such local media icons.
If the problem is a matter of rights, can it then not be solved by setting those manually, or programmatically from inside our Tasker programs ?
And if not, does anyone happen to know of another work-around ?

[Łukasz Kowalczyk]

So If I understood correctly, if I reinstall Tasker everything should be OK?
What about that icons' misalignment?

[Pent]

If the problem is a matter of rights, can it then not be solved by setting those manually, or programmatically from inside our Tasker programs ?

It's a rights matter. Android forgets the rights when Tasker is uninstalled. For App Factory (at least, the latest version 4.7), it shouldn't be a problem
because the image is copied and inserted in the APK).

And if not, does anyone happen to know of lanother work-around ?

A temporary workaround would be to store the image on SD in Tasker's dir. But I think in the future,
Android will start deleting an app's SD dir when they're deinstalled. That's the way they appear
to be heading.

Pent

[Pent]

So If I understood correctly, if I reinstall Tasker everything should be OK?

No, that's what causes the problem.
 

What about that icons' misalignment?

That's a different issue, see what I wrote previously.

Pent

[Paul Vanderperren]

On Friday, May 22, 2015 at 10:31:35 AM UTC+2, Pent wrote:
> It's a rights matter. Android forgets the rights when Tasker is uninstalled. For App Factory (at least, the latest version 4.7), it shouldn't be a problem because the image is copied and inserted in the APK).

That is great news, thx for taking care of that showstopper.
Could you please clarify what then happens with these items when one installs the child app, like where do they end up, and how do we best refer to them?
And is this payload possibility restricted to images only, or...? Any size restrictions?