loose tasks in widget

[Joppla]

Hi,
Everytime I loose the tasks in the widget. If I remove the app and reinstall it, they are back. But it is not the purpose of the app I presume.

[yvolk]

Hello @Joppla !
The widget shows those tasks that your "Tasks app" (one of supported by the widget) provides to it.
The widget doesn't store tasks anywhere, doesn't cache them. Each time you update the widget, the widget retrieves the list of tasks from a tasks app.
This means that your tasks can be "lost" anywhere between the interface, where you created them, in the "tasks app", in the widget code, and in the "Launcher app" that actually shows all Android widgets (including the "ToDo Agenda" widget).

If you want your case to be analyzed and maybe even fixed, much more information and tests from your side are needed.

As an example of one of possible problems (of showing tasks...) that we investigated recently, please see #108

[Joppla]

hi @yvolk,

I m happy to hear that you want to try to analyse the problem.

I was using your app on my previous phone (Samsung S9) where it was working without any problems. That's the reason I like to use it again.

First I will tell you which apps I use:

• My phone is a Fairphone4 on Android 11
• For launcher I use Lawnchair2:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.deletescape.lawnchair.plah
• For the Agenda I use "Etar": https://f-droid.org/en/packages/ws.xsoh.etar/
  
• For the Tasks I use Open Tasks (as advised else): https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.dmfs.tasks/
• For the sync I use Davx5: https://www.davx5.com/

Underneath you see the settings in my app.
Niet gevonden = not found
In the Open Task app I see the tasks and is it updated to the server.

Which tests or information do you need more?

[yvolk]

@Joppla Could you start from reading #108 and doing what we did ther

1. Check and note a list of permissions ToDo Agenda app has, when it works correctly.
2. When you don't see tasks:
   2.1. please check permissions again and note them.
   2.2. Try to disallow and then allow permissions as I described in Tasks permission keeps failing after a week #108 (comment)

[Joppla]

Ok, I did this:

1. There are two permissions mentioned, -Agenda and -Tasks, both were allowed.
2. I disallowed both the permission.
3. I refresh the widget
4. Got message about permissions
5. I allowed permissions for -Agenda and -Tasks
6. Refresh the widget
7. Only the Agenda items are shown on the widget, not the Tasks
8. In the settings are the Tasks still "not found".
9. In the settings I un-cheked the "not found" items.
10. I refreshed the widget
11. In the settings the items are not shown any more, see screenprint below.
12. I disallow and allow the permissions for tasks again
13. No difference in the settings
14. I removed the widget
15. I replaced the widget
16. Still the same

What is left is to uninstall the app and reinstall it, but that is just what I don't want to do every time. Or do you have other suggestions?

[yvolk]

How often do you have tasks disappearing?
Did you notice any coincidence with any other events?

You can backup your widget settings as text (JSON) and restore them later, e.g. for another widget:
Settings -> Feedback and Backup -> Backup settings
(below it is "Restore settings from a backup")

[yvolk]

@Joppla I just thought that maybe this is Android system that disables some permissions when it thinks that app is unused?! See https://developer.android.com/about/versions/11/privacy/permissions

[Joppla]

How often do you have tasks disappearing? Did you notice any coincidence with any other events?

I just reinstalled the app, it was the 5th time in about two weeks. My phone is quite new, so I play a lot with settings of the phone. Not with the settings of the todo app. I also I reboot quite often. But I cannot connect it with a event.

You can backup your widget settings as text (JSON) and restore them later, e.g. for another widget: Settings -> Feedback and Backup -> Backup settings (below it is "Restore settings from a backup")

I know, should be worse if that isn't possible 😉

[yvolk]

@Joppla So far this looks like a bug of concrete Android system / firmware / version... I couldn't reproduce this on my devices (I have Android 7, 12 and 13 on them...)

[yvolk]

Hello @Joppla!
Do you have any updates on this?

I decided to look at this again, test disabling/enabling permissions as you did.
Oops, and I see that I already did this test. And tasks reappeared after re-enabling permissions, please see here: #108 (comment)

[yvolk]

@Joppla in v.4.8.0 I improved permissions checks, this may help figuring out, what is wrong
Please see #80 (comment)

[yvolk]

Another reason why Tasks may disappear from a widget: #66

[Joppla]

Just back home, I will review your remarks in the coming days. 2 jan. 2024 11:24:25 Yuri Volkov ***@***.***>:

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[Joppla]

At this moment I haven't problems with the widget. Except that I got an error if I click on a task in the widget. In that case the OpenTasks-app doesn't open / close immediately. But for that I have to make a new issue once.

For your information, the phone is now updated to Android 13, maybe that helped.

[yvolk]

I'm testing with Android 13 mostly - it works.
Maybe you have wrong default app chosen...

[Joppla]

Maybe you have wrong default app chosen...

Maybe, how to check it? Or where to change it?

[yvolk]

Maybe you have wrong default app chosen...

Maybe, how to check it? Or where to change it?

Please look e.g. here: https://www.androidauthority.com/change-default-apps-android-2-633572/

[Joppla]

The OpenTasks is correct connected in my opinion. The first time when click on a task in the widget "nothing" happened. The second time I got the error message "OpenTasks stopt steeds" (="OpenTasks keep stopping"). That suggest that there is a correct connection to OpenTasks, but in the communication between the apps something fails. Seems me. But it can also be at the side of OpenTasks.

If you can't find it isn't a problem. I don't use it often.

[yvolk]

@Joppla This looks like an old bug in OpenTasks (or maybe they fixed it and you need to update it...). Please see
#69

[Joppla]

Hi, I saw that OpenTasks is not developed anymore. I had the latest version. I changed to Task.Org and that seems to work. Only to find out how to change the color of the "v" before the task in the widget. 9 jan. 2024 16:44:12 Yuri Volkov ***@***.***>:

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