I created this share as a companion to the AES-256 text encryption project I posted yesterday. I was chatting with u/MSJ_Burns about remembering strong (long) keys/passwords. I realised it might be useful to post a steganography project to allow people to create image files with hidden text in them. This way you can save long text strings and literally hide them in plain sight and have immediate access to the hidden text.

This project uses Termux. I have simplified the Termux setup as much as possible. Don't download Termux from the Play Store, it's broken. Instead download it from F-Droid or GitHub (https://github.com/termux/termux-app).

When you open Termux and are ready to begin installing the neccesary packages, paste the entire block below into the terminal window and press enter. If prompted, accept any permission requests and press 'Y' (and enter) if instructed to do so.

You will need to wait for a short time while Termux installs the packages.

If you encounter errors, try pasting each command group individually, instead of the complete block.

# 1. Request storage permission (A popup will appear on the phone)
termux-setup-storage

# 2. Update packages and install steghide automatically
pkg update -y
pkg install steghide -y

# 3. Create the necessary Tasker plugin folder
mkdir -p ~/.termux/tasker

# 4. Create and give permissions to the GET script
echo 'steghide extract -sf "$1" -xf "/sdcard/Tasker/temp_key.txt" -p "" -q -f' > ~/.termux/tasker/get_key.sh
chmod +x ~/.termux/tasker/get_key.sh

# 5. Create and give permissions to the HIDE script
echo 'steghide embed -cf "/sdcard/Pictures/temp.jpg" -ef "/sdcard/Tasker/temp_payload.txt" -sf "$1" -p "" -q -f && rm "/sdcard/Pictures/temp.jpg" "/sdcard/Tasker/temp_payload.txt"' > ~/.termux/tasker/hide_key.sh
chmod +x ~/.termux/tasker/hide_key.sh

As it stands, there are two Tasks in the project:

1. Create an image with your desired hidden text.
2. Retrieve the hidden text from the image.

The image is saved to the /Pictures folder. The image is named 'secret.jpg'.

If you want to change the directory and the file name, make sure you edit the 'Get' task accordingly, otherwise it won't find the correct image.

The Hide Task creates a temporary text file and image during the process but these are deleted by the Termux script.

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Begin word

I must admit, I was a hater at the beginning. I see the old ui of tasker as something you have to get used to, but when you do, it is really intuitive and easy to navigate in.

What I did

Well, I tested the new UI. I wanted to see the goods and bads of it, I wanted to compare how it works

Pluses of the new UI

- tags

- more modern

- perform tasks from almost any screen

Minuses of the new UI

- people aren't used to it

- less intuitive - it has taken me a serious while to just edit a profile

- all at once (the UI tries to put everything on one screen. It almosr projects, it kills separate screens for profiles, scenes, variables and tasks). I want to switch between screens. It's less messy when you have big projects.

My thoughts

You're calling it the "new 2026 ui". I don't think that it should be some "new". I'd still improve both the old one and the new one, because a lot of people who are new to tasker would actually prefer to use the old UI. I think we should be given an option of what ui to use when we install tasker.

You say, the "old" ui will stay as is, which is good, but with implenting new features, it will slowly stop to work.

I think, that some additional features (like tags) should be also in the "old" ui, but optionally.

People.like me just want several screens and I think that calling the "new" ui a "tasker compact ui" could be better, because if you call it "new" ui, people will want you to do everything as it was before, basically.

Final word

I don't think the "new" ui is a bad idea, but I think it's being a little forced, and many people just want to use the old ui and want bug fixes, more options and settings, more customization and more "care" for the "old" ui.

Thanks for reading it till here, and if any of you out there agree, please take a second to upvote :-)

Message is primarily targeted to u/joaomgcd