Assistant Event for Tasker
The gesture exists since Android 4.1 and can be activated by long-pressing on the Home button and then dragging to the icon that appears in a half-circle above.
It may also be available on some devices by hitting the Search button.
This plugin should also function in Locale and other apps that use the same API, but I have not tested with anything other than Tasker.
Note: This is not a full app on its own; it only functions in conjunction with Tasker or another app that implements the Locale plugin API.
Once you have installed this app, you will see the plugin as a context within Tasker (under State > Plugin). Then, if you perform the Assistant gesture, you should be asked which application to direct it to. Choose this application, and for best results, select that you want it to always be the choice.
Please contact me via email with any issues, as I can't respond to your review directly.
Neither this app nor Empty Path LLC are affiliated with Tasker, Locale or any similar app or author.
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Reviews (18)
I got a touchwiz problem too. When set up as default it makes the recent tasks command crashes, says the system ui crashes or something like that
Crashes touchwiz when you set this as default and try to long press the home button to reach your jump/multitasking list. But my google now shortcut on lockscreen sucessfully changed so using that will activate this app instead.
S6 edge here running Marshmallow, works perfectly fine with action launcher 3 and tasker. I am capturing long press on the home key and displaying a custom menu built in tasker, never failed nor crashed.
When you set assistant event as all ways by default, touchwiz crashes when you call it again. Will change to 5 star if there is a workaround or is fixed.
When I set it to always touch wiz crashes
I am using Moto E and have installed this. But in my tasker app when I add a plugin event then it is not shown. What is the problem with it?
Especially useful since sliding the home button can be exchanged for this! Basically, sliding the home button means you launch whatever you want!
... recent tasker update made the function native though. Will phase out Event Assistant for Tasker. Was great while tasker didn't have it.
Obsolete with new auto voice update
Does what it says, which is exactly what I wanted.
Does exactly what is says on the tin. Great work.
Works great and Dev very helpful. Thanks
Doesn't work on Android 6.0 Marshmallow.
+win+
Perfect in Note 4... Thanks
Works great thanks
I was looking at using Secure Settings Pro to do exactly this. I'm glad I didn't spend the $1.50 on SS since that was the only feature I wanted and this does it perfectly. Great App.
On my Galaxy S2 HD LTE (svh-e120s). Using the app one time works fine, however, like others have mentioned before, if I select always use, it crashes touchwiz and fails to load properly. I see this problem has been around for awhile and still hasn't been fixed. Uninstalling until I see a change.