Advanced Methods

Even restart after killed by Android, AnkuLua still run the script from the beginning.
Basically, you don't need to modify any thing on your scripts.

The  isRecoveredFromKilled() is just a status. You can't do anything from isRecoveredFromKilled(), except recording it.

Sometimes I got the error "true nil" when running playMusic("music.mp3", false). (No Sound Played)
Especially when the script is already repeatedly running (like 30 mins or 1 hour)

The weird thing is to make it work again. I need to restart ankulua.

Basically, my script only plays the music while a method is completed.

can homescreen shortcut be created to launch specific luar from a single click of the shortcut?
I wouldn't mind like one confirmation popup for safety concern. but ¹tapping the floating button > ²then choosing playback > ³then choosing specific luar to execute > ⁴then confirming the playback sequence.

4 clicks every time. just to run a 13 click sequence...i can't be the only one who feels like we lose cool points for every click we have to do after the first one.
like "hey check this out . wait . umm.. lemme just.. navigate.. thru these prompts. ok! NOW look at it go.. automationnn fk yeah!"

Is there a way to prevent showing "result dialog" after script ends? Sometimes I just need to automate without any prompt :-)

Ankulua basically compares a template with the given picture, right? Is it possible to get a percentage of how much the template is accurate to the picture? You can do that in OpenCV with maxVal

This may help with understanding how to use similarity, and is just a nice function i use when i wanna see what kind of matches im getting on any given screen using a folder full of images. Good for weeding bad region areas picking up images they shouldnt be etc...

-- Function to create a directory
local function mkdir(path)
return os.execute('mkdir -p "' .. path .. '"') == 0
end

-- Function to remove a directory
local function rmdir(path)
return os.execute("rm -rf \"" .. path .. "\"") == 0
end

-- Function to scan a directory and return a list of files
local function scandir(scan_dir, temp)
temp = temp or "/sdcard/temp"
local list_file = temp .. "_scandir_"

local create_list_file = "ls " .. scan_dir .. " > " .. list_file

if not mkdir(temp) then
return false, "_mkdir_"
end

if os.execute(create_list_file) ~= 0 then
return false, "_list_"
end

local lines = {}

for line in io.lines(list_file) do
lines[#lines + 1] = line
end

rmdir(list_file)
return lines, '_none_'
end

function isFolderEmpty(dir_name)
local temp = "/sdcard/temp" -- Set the temporary directory path
local list_file = temp .. "_scandir_"

-- Check if the temporary directory exists, and create it if not
if not mkdir(temp) then
return false, "_mkdir_"
end

local create_list_file = "ls " .. dir_name .. " > " .. list_file

-- Execute the ls command and capture the return value
local return_code = os.execute(create_list_file)

if return_code == 0 then
-- The ls command executed successfully, so check if the list_file is empty
local file = io.open(list_file, "r")
local content = file:read("*a")
file:close()

if content == "" then
return true
else
return false
end
else
-- Handle the case where the ls command had an error
return false
end
end



function imageTester(folder, reg, sim)


local _found = {} -- List to store found images
local _files = {} -- List to store scanned files
local _sim = sim or 0.70 -- Similarity threshold
local _reg = reg or Region(0, 0, 9999, 9999) -- Default region to full screen
local _folder = folder or scriptPath() .. "images/" -- Default folder

-- Check if the provided folder is not nil and exists
if folder and not isFolderEmpty(folder) then
_files = scandir(folder)
elseif not isFolderEmpty(scriptPath() .. "images/") then
-- If folder is nil or doesn't exist, use the images path
_files = scandir(scriptPath() .. "images/")
else
-- If images path doesn't exist, use singular image folder path
_files = scandir(scriptPath() .. "image/")
end

setImagePath(_folder) -- Set image folder
snapshot() -- Single snapshot so we can iterate through all images on one screenshot

for i, t in ipairs(_files) do
if _reg:exists(Pattern(t, 0):similar(_sim)) then --this line also shows you how to control similarity inline
local _score = _reg:getLastMatch():getScore()
table.insert(_found, t .. " SCORE: " .. math.abs(_score)) -- Insert image name and score into _found table
_reg:getLastMatch():highlight(1) -- Highlight any match for 1 second
end
end

usePreviousSnap(false) -- End our single screenshot

for i, v in ipairs(_found) do
print(v .. "\n") -- Print out a nice neat list of matches and their scores
end
end

--control similarity globally
Settings:set('MinSimilarity', .70) --means, if we have not specified similarity our searches default to this

--run the function using defaults
imageTester()

--if using with region and custom folder

--- imageTester(scriptPath().. "custom_name/",Region(0,0,9999,9999),.80)

--This would search in custom_name folder, and use entire screen, at .80 threshold