- 04/12/2015. Tasker 4.8 released (Android 4.+)
Ways To Get It
There's an immediate-download 7-day Trial along with a retail Play Store version.
What Exactly Is It ?
Tasker is definitely an application for Android which performs tasks (teams of actions) according to contexts (application, time, date, location, event, gesture) in user-defined profiles or perhaps in clickable or timer desltop widgets.
This straightforward concept profoundly extends your charge of your Android tool and it's abilities, without resorting to 'root' or perhaps a special desltop.
Tasker came 3rd within the Productivity category within the Android Developer Challenge 2.
Questions. Try the forum.
Usage Examples
Listed here are only some of the things that you could do this with Tasker, it's real power may be the versatility to mix contexts and tasks however you want.- passcode-lock sensitive applications (e.g. for child safety)
- change phone settings by
- application: lengthy screen timeout inside a book readers
- time: screen brightness lower at night
- location: ringer volume high in the office, switch off ke yguard in your own home
- awaken having a random song out of your music collection
- Text-to-speech read aloud: incoming SMS/ telephone number, Wireless/Bluetooth status, when it is here we are at a scheduled appointment, once the battery is low and so forth (Android Operating System 1.6+ only)
- launch a music application whenever your music Sdcard is placed, otherwise personal files browser
- start your day having a particular application showing
- change all of your home icons and wallpaper every single day, or perhaps in particular locations
- turn the telephone upside lower revisit the house screen, tilt 90 levels left and to toggle speakerphone throughout a call
- produce a Home widget to
- toggle bluetooth/wireless on/off
- launch wireless settings dialog
- show a menu of tasks to select
- send an urgent situation SMS together with your Gps navigation location
- remap camera etc buttons with other applications, or show a menu of applications and/or actions
- zip/unzip application data quickly when a credit card applicatoin is launched/exits
- pause music playback during a specific application, restart on exit
- alter the Home icon for just about any application
- have a time-lapse photo series (possibly 'secretly')
- create a regular backup of the file around the Sdcard
- track your phone location via SMS in situation of thievery
- extend using the press button in your headset: have a picture from the distance or visit the previous media track having a lengthy press
- record call occasions and destinations towards the Sdcard
- show a popup when an SMS arrives from the particular telephone number
- setup mothering sunday SMS to become sent several weeks before it takes place which means you remember
- record battery levels with time to some file on Sdcard
- make automatic tracks of the items you say during telephone calls to Sdcard
- throughout the night, switch on plane mode to save battery/reduce radiation, but power it down every fifteen minutes to check on for SMS/voicemail message.
- setup a holiday SMS message, with various messages for various callers
- launch a music application when earphones are connected