Tasker is an application for Android which performs Tasks (sets of Actions) based on Contexts (application, time, date, location, event, gesture) in user-defined Profiles, or in clickable or timer home screen widgets.
This simple concept profoundly extends your control of your Android device and it’s capabilities, without the need for ‘root’ or a special home screen.
Here are only some of the things you could do with Tasker, it’s real power is the flexibility to combine contexts and tasks however you wish.
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passcode-lock sensitive applications (e.g. for child safety)
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change phone settings by
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application: long screen timeout in a book reader
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time: screen brightness lower in the evening
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location: ringer volume high at the office, turn off key-guard at home
3. Wake up with a random song from your music collection
4. Text-to-speech; read out loud: incoming SMS/ phone number, Wi-Fi/Bluetooth status, when it’s time for an appointment, when the battery is low etc. (Android OS 1.6+ only)
5. Launch a music application when your music SD card is inserted, otherwise a file browser
6. Start the day with a particular application showing
7. Change all your home icons and wallpaper every day, or in particular locations
8. Turn the phone upside down to return to the home screen, tilt 90 degrees to the left and back to toggle speakerphone during a call
9. Create a Home widget to:
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toggle Bluetooth/Wi-Fi on/off
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launch wireless settings dialog
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show a menu of tasks to choose
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send an emergency SMS with your GPS location
10. Re-map camera etc. buttons to other applications, or show a menu of applications and/or actions
11. Decrypt/encrypt and/or zip/unzip application data on the fly when an application is launched/exits
12. Pause music playback while in a particular application, restart on exit
13. Change the Home icon for any application
14. Take a time-lapse photo series (possibly ‘secretly’)
15. Make a regular backup of a file on the SD card
16. Track your phone location via SMS in case of theft
17. Extend the use of the media button on your headset: take a picture from a distance or go to the previous media track with a long press
18. Record call times and destinations to the SD card
19. Show a popup when an SMS arrives from a particular phone number
20. Setup a birthday SMS to be sent months before it happens so you don’t forget
21. Record battery levels over time to a file on SD card
22. Make automatic recordings of what you say during phone calls to SD card
23. during the night, turn on airplane mode to conserve battery/reduce radiation, but turn it off every 15 minutes to check for SMS/voicemail
24. Setup a vacation SMS message, with different messages for different callers
25. Launch music application when headphones are connected
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