If you consider yourself an Android power user, you have very likely already heard about Tasker. And you have also heard about Android 11 and its Power Menu Device Controls. With Android 11, Google has changed the options that appear when you long-press the power button, now presenting a new UI and smart home device controls for quick access. This is a great spot for adding shortcuts, but Google limits these shortcuts to just home controls. This is where Tasker comes in, as the latest beta adds in support for customing Android 11's power menu controls.

Tasker developer joaomgcd was already working on integrating shortcuts within the power menu. Tasker 5.9.4 beta is a continuation of those efforts, now reaching in the hands of users as the previous test was not released for users. The major highlight of the update is the fact that you can add in Tasker tiles to the power menu as clickable buttons, and these tiles could trigger virtually any Tasker tasks that you could think of. These tiles could be simple buttons for calling a task on click, or be a toggle with on/off states, or be a toggle with progress states. The dev presented a quick demo wherein a button was created to trigger a screenshot task:

If you need even more control at your fingertips, you can use the "Power Menu Action" action in Tasker to create buttons with a given id, type, title, subtitle, icon, and command. This further lets you create buttons that can change throughout the day. The new update also brings in the Tasker Command System with the new Command Event and Command Action, letting users re-use tasks and avoid duplicity in tasks. Third-party commands are also supported.

You can sign up for the beta track on the Google Play Store, or sideload it yourself from the download link in the Reddit post.

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