Configure Quick Tile

[GiladB]

I wanted to do something better than ON/OFF and after playing around, I found that if you change the name of the tile, it won't update until you close and re-open the quick panel. I found that turning the quick tile off and on from within MacroDroid refreshes the status and fixes this issue. I can't seem to be able to apply this method on icons.

Have you been playing around with this?

 

[Endercraft]

Same issue for me. If I toggle a tile and it changes the text, nothing happens. If I toggle it again and change the text again, the first text change happens now.

 

[GiladB]

Same issue for me. If I toggle a tile and it changes the text, nothing happens. If I toggle it again and change the text again, the first text change happens now.

I overcame that problem by quickly turning the tile off and on/on and off after the label change. Now looking to do the same with the icon.
Making tiles more capable than ON/OFF is something MacroDroid should look into, as a built-in feature.

 

[Endercraft]

If you are interested there is a new long press trigger for quick tiles.

 

[GiladB]

If you are interested there is a new long press trigger for quick tiles.

Yeah, I haven't found much use for it other than displaying information about the tile.

 

[Endercraft]

There is not much else you can do with them. The initial point of a quick tile is to toggle a specific setting quickly so I'm afraid they are not really optimized for other use cases.

 

[GiladB]

There is not much else you can do with them. The initial point of a quick tile is to toggle a specific setting quickly so I'm afraid they are not really optimized for other use cases.

They could be much more useful. For instance, you can make them cycle between a few settings.

 

[Endercraft]

You can use a variable for that by increasing an integer by 1 then resetting it when it's after the last setting to create a cycle. For example use a 'button' type quick tile. By clicking on it, you can change the setting to toggle and by long pressing it you can toggle that chosen setting.

 

[GiladB]

You can use a variable for that by increasing an integer by 1 then resetting it when it's after the last setting to create a cycle. For example use a 'button' type quick tile. By clicking on it, you can change the setting to toggle and by long pressing it you can toggle that chosen setting.

Yeah, that's exactly what I have done and it was super glitchy because the tiles wouldn't update or would update with the previous state. It took me a couple hours to get it right, which is why I strongly believe this should be a native feature of MacroDroid as it is much more user friendly when selecting options than this ancient mess.

 

[MacroDroidDev]

I've just made a tweak to the quick tile code so the tile label will update when the tile is still on the screen. This will be in the next beta.

 

[GiladB]

I've just made a tweak to the quick tile code so the tile label will update when the tile is still on the screen. This will be in the next beta.

Thank you.
The icon needs the same treatment, by the way.

 

[MacroDroidDev]

Yes that is done as part of this.