AutoInput instability

[brendon zhang]

Hello,

I have been having a lot of issues with the AutoInput plugin being unstable. I have mainly been using the AutoInput UI Query and AutoInput Gestures. It seems inevitable that after calling these actions enough times (say, roughly 10-30 minutes of repeatedly calling these actions), AutoInput will crash or fail to do the actions for unknown reasons. I have had various issues such as:

1. AutoInput crashing so many times that Android notifies you via. pop-up that "AutoInput keeps crashing". In this case, I have not found a way to restore the stability of AutoInput asides from restarting my phone.

2. AutoInput action failing w/ error code 485798959 and message "Accessibility Service seems not to be started. Touch here and start the service." In this case, I go to the AutoInput app and manually restart the accessibility service. But it is only a matter of time before it will fail again.

3. AutoInput action failing w/ error code 2 and message "Timeout". In this case, sometimes it is a one-time occurrence and issuing the action again will work. Other times, the failure is persistent, and I needed to force-shut the AutoInput app and restart it in order to make it work again.

These various stability issues have made it too difficult to use AutoInput as a component for an automation script, and so I have looked elsewhere to get the functionality I am looking for. I'm hoping that these stability issues can be investigated in the future. 

[João Dias]

Hi there, thanks for the report! Can you please try this version? https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_MCmNfnK4FpFB7HFOgkQxNKbtbmbb8Rs/view

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[brendon zhang]

The new version appears to be more stable. I ran my script for around 3 hours, and it did not crash due to an AutoInput issue thus far. I'm uncertain if it is completely resolved, but it certainly seems to be a good improvement.

[Erik Carlin]

Do you find your profiles that invoke auto input fail and have to be toggled? I was provided another version to fix slowdowns and hard locks but it has not resolved my need to toggle profiles to get auto input to regain functionality. 

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[brendon zhang]

I didn't experience this issue. Although, I only did rerun the script w/ Auto Input for around 3 hours, so its not really enough time to rule out that I would experience issues if I were to use it for longer or w/ different actions.