Hangouts Reader for Tasker

Reads Hangouts messages, if all goes well...

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(because Hangouts doesn't really make its messages available at all, so this pokes in there and finds them)

Simple plugin for Tasker to read Hangouts messages (incoming and outgoing), with configurable options. Handy if you're scripting stuff and want to get at your Hangouts messages, for example to send them to a Pebble Smartwatch.

This is no use unless you use it through Tasker! It is not an independent application and will not appear in the launcher. Also, it can't send Hangouts messages - only read them.

This is basically looking at internal data of the Hangouts app, so could be rather fragile. It will attempt to find all the databases Hangouts is using, and let you choose from them, but you may need to try each one and see which one works. You can also enter a custom path for the database if it can't be found automatically.

Permissions:

android.permission.ACCESS_SUPERUSER - to find the Hangouts database and read from it. Otherwise the data is private to the Hangouts app and can't be read; they won't share :(

android.permission.INTERNET - for crash reporting & user feedback form.

What's New in the Latest Version 1.0.1

* Installs a local copy of sqlite3 binary, since it seems it's often not present, and this needs it.
* Handles a possibly null text message in the Hangouts DB.
* Toasts a lot of errors where they were previously just logged.