The best source for Android OS news. Co-host on the Android Faithful podcast. First, the app finally adds the WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS permission to the Manifest. This isn't necessarily a feature, but it ...

Just a few short days after the launch of Android 13 Developer Preview 1 Tasker developer João Dias is teasing us with new features and functions for the automation app. Thanks to some under-the-hood ...

The best source for Android OS news. Co-host on the Android Faithful podcast. We're huge fans of automation on XDA. As an avid user of Tasker for many years, I've watched the app grow with many ...

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The previous Tasker projects were designed as much to get you familiar with working with Tasker as they were to provide simple, yet invaluable, functionality. Today, we will continue this trend as our ...

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As powerful and as smart at our smartphones are, they're still pretty much like any other computer in our possession. We have to tell it what we want it to do and, most of the time, we do it manually ...

As a part of the challenge from last week, I asked you to try to have Zooper Widget display an indicator of when your headphones have been plugged in. To do this, we must utilize the second function ...

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Google Now already has a ton of useful voice commands built in. Thanks to a recent update to Tasker plugin AutoVoice, though, you can now create your own commands that plug directly into Google Now to ...

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