AutoShare - WhatsApp intent Class changed

francwalter

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Feb 20, 2022, 6:25:29 AM2/20/22

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Hallo

I have a useful little Task where I take a photo with low resolution (save it to %timestamp, which is the actual date and time) and send it to WhatsApp to share it with some contacts there.

So I don't spend so much disk space for fotos which are resized anyway by WhatsApp.

Fotos in WhatsApp are saved in full size but sent in small resolution.

I use the great App AutoShare for this Tasker Task, it makes it very easy.

Yesterday (surely after an update of WhatsApp) it stopped working.

AutoShare (and Tasker) gave me the errormessage

"Couldn't find a suitable app to launch"

It took me a while till I noticed that the Class of WhatsApp's intent changed.

AutoShare setting used to be:

Package: com.whatsapp

Class: com.whatsapp.ContactPicker

App: AutoShare

MimeType: file/jpeg

File: file:///storage/emulated/0/DCIM/Tasker/%timestamp.jpg

Now to still work it is:

...

Class: com.whatsapp.contact.picker.ContactPicker

...

Strange, that this happens just unnoticed, I didnt find any search result in the net, with that error message from AutoShare.

I used the app "Intent-intercept" from k3b on Github to get the new WhatsApp Intent's class.

Hope somebody helps this.

frank

Tasker 5.15.10-beta on Xiaomi Mi A1

João Dias

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Feb 21, 2022, 8:07:46 AM2/21/22

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Just to clarify, it still works with that new class, correct? This can happen because app devs might want to move their classes around in their code :) You just have to update your setup whenever it happens.

Hope this clarifies it!

Thank you for your contact.

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Frank Roehm

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Feb 21, 2022, 8:29:29 AM2/21/22

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To clarify: it **only** works with that new class!

João Dias

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Feb 21, 2022, 8:44:35 AM2/21/22

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Yep, that's normal! Whatsapp changed the path of the class so naturally it stops working with the old one :)

francwalter

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May 5, 2022, 2:14:02 AM5/5/22

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Now it happened again with signal, class was before

org.thoughtcrime.securesms.sharing.ShareActivity

but it changed to

org.thoughtcrime.securesms - org.thoughtcrime.securesms.sharing.v2.ShareActivity

I used again Intent Abfänger to find it, send a photo to that app and in the possible apps to receive that photo I found the new intent of signal.