Check if an app is [not] running?

[fry...@gmail.com]

I'm trying to have Tasker notify me if my firewall app (Afwall+) is not running -- this seems to happen on some bootups, not sure why.

It has a persistent notification, so is there a way to easily check for a running app or for an existing notification?

[Dave W, BSEE,MSCE,OOP]

As usual in Tasker, timeouts are required.

[RSF]

Couple possibilities you could check out:

1. Set up a profile with a context looking for your Afwall app. Then define an Exit Task to notify you when it's not running. You might want to put a Wait for a couple minutes in an entry task, if the value of %UPS (uptime) indicates a reboot just occurred, to give the system time to fully start up.
2. Inspect Afwall's notification, using the  AutoNotification Tasker plug-in. It can query other app's notification, both persistent and non-persistent. (It'll also give you lots of functions to create far more elaborate notifications than native Tasker supports)

Note for #1: some phones / Android versions require that you use ADB to grant Tasker both DUMP and PACKAGE_USAGE_STATS permissions for that to work. May want to add READ_LOGS too.

[Dave W, BSEE,MSCE,OOP]

Not to go too far off topic, reboot is a big issue, especially if you have a very large Tasker configuration like I do.  My Device Shutdown task does all the cleanup.  My Device Boot task simply posts a notification via AutoNotification.  When the notification is detected by AutoNotification itself, any boot actions are performed.  This actually takes a long time and I've never understood why.  I just don't want to start doing things until TASKER says it's ready.