João Dias

Live Creations #13 - Google Play Music Playlist on Amazon Echo

Since this was inspired by this Paul Hibbert Video (so it's not exactly my doing) I've decided to make this one public so everyone can enjoy it :)

I've made some changes to it to make it simpler, by using AutoVoice, but the idea behind it is the same.

If you have an Amazon Echo, you might have realized that Amazon doesn't let you play Google Play Music on it. Well, now you can :)

Get the musi...

Send a message to Google Home even in the background and with the screen off

There were previously other ways of sending messages to your Google Home, but these required your phone's screen to be on and unlocked. 

Check out an example of that here.

Granted that the with the AutoInput method above you were able to send any command to your Google Assistant, if you're only interested in sending messag...

Sneak Peek - New Navigation Bar Feature!

As you can see from this short video, you'll soon be able to handle multi-clicks on navigation bar icons to launch different tasks! :)

So, for example, you can launch a task when you click the icon once, a different task when you click it twice, etc.

Enjoy!

Sneak Peek - New Web Screen For the Holidays

Thought it would be fun to share this web screen with you early :)

It's just a small screensaver like screen that you might enjoy. No functionality at all, just looks pretty.

Use this as a source in AutoTools Web Screen to try it out (set display mode to immersive): https://www.dropbox.com/s/s8zqcjvpve4c1iw/page.html?dl=0

Credit to this codepen: 2018-12-18 10:04:24 +0000 UTC View Post

Navigation Bar - New Addition!!

Check it out! :) In the next beta you'll be able to add tasks to your navigation bar!

Sneak Peak - AutoNotification Easy Replies

Here's another step in making AutoNotification easier to use. Available in a beta soon :)

Sneak Peak: Next new major Tasker feature...

Tasker is getting native NFC support! :D

Check out the demo where I save a message on to a tag on one device and then read the message out loud on another!

The possibilities will be endless :)

Tasker - New Action Preview

And here's another exclusive for you kind folks! :) The new Navigation Bar action!

Let me know what you think!

New AutoNotification Feature Preview - Easy Actions

Just wanted to give everyone here a chance to see this new feature before everyone else!

You can try it out with this version: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8G77eDgeMdwYkdSS0R6cTNpZkE

Let me know what you think! :)

Tasker is magical

So, apparently Tasker can do stuff on phones, even if it's not installed!!

Check out one of the latest reviews I got for Tasker on Google Play!

I installed and setup 3 profiles they will not stop running I have tried turning them off in Tasker, disabling Tasker, and uninstalling it. NONE OF THESE HAVE WORKED they still run on my phone. I CAN'T BELIEVE I PAID FOR THIS APP!

Tasker is even better than I imagined :D

Sticky Note - New AutoTools Web Screen

There is a new Web Screen available for AutoTools. Sticky Notes!

Allows you to create random notes that you can "stick" anywhere on your screen :)

Mat from NotEnoughTech did a great post about it here with a full example on how to use it!

Let me know what you think about this new screen!

Sending SMS with a link on a web page

Thought this was an interesting use case that a customer asked about, so I created a tutorial for it. 

Check it out here!

Enjoy!

Sneak Peak of a new Tasker Action!

This is a preview available in the new Tasker 5.6.2b Beta :)

The new Tasker Keyboard action will allow you to simulate keyboard input in any app!

As you can see, this allows you to send a WhatsApp message without root or an accessibility service! :)

This can be used in many, many situations to automate UI! 

For e...

Web Screen Previews - Barcode Generator

I came across this simple javascript library to generate barcodes so obviously I had to try it out with AutoTools Web Screens :)

As you can see, you give it some text and it'll output a barcode for you. I could potentially add all these options to it, so if you're interested, let me know which would make sense for you :)

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The challenges of targeting Oreo in Tasker

Read about it in the post above.

Also, please check out the new feature that makes it easier to report issues to the developer: https://youtu.be/K4ILnLFzUgM

Quick Tip - Tasker Switch To Last App

Someone asked me if Tasker was able to do something like Alt+TAB in Windows. I didn't know, so I tried this out and, low and behold, it worked! :D

Updating Tasker target to Android Oreo

 Tasker and App Factory now target API 26 (Android Oreo) in their beta versions. 

This means that a lot of behaviours will change, and I have to adapt Tasker to run in situations that weren't needed before.

What you see in the image is the result of updating the target to Oreo. What previously w...

Exclusive AutoTools Web Screen Previews - Multiple Inputs and PostIt Notes!

These are both still unfinished but I thought I'd give you the chance to have an exclusive preview!

Please expect the screens to change before the final release, but you can play around with them now :)

Multiple Inputs: https://www.dropbox.com/s/s71hul7fjziyc0j/page.html?dl=0

PostIt: 2018-11-20 15:46:28 +0000 UTC View Post

Did you know? AutoWear can call URLs directly!

Did you know that if you set any of AutoWear's element commands to an URL, that URL will be called directly from the watch! Tasker or the phone will not be used at all!

For example, that means that you can do anything that the Join API allows directly from your watch!

For example, you're on a bike ride and want to send a quick pre-made SMS saying you're biking? Just make a button show on your watch while you're on the...

There's hope!

Seems like Tasker might be able to keep its SMS and Call permissions after all! Check out all the details at the link!

Doing stuff in JavaScript in Tasker is fun!!

Yesterday I posted a task that could get the full collection of Xbox Game Pass games and show it in a dialog .

I did that by using the AutoTools HTML Read action in a loop, to read all 3 pages of games, and then used AutoTools JSON Write to put that all in a single variable.

Then I used AutoTools JSON Read to read from the game list and finally ...

Xbox Game Pass Listing

This is a fun task I created today. Import it here!
With the power of AutoTools HTML read and JSON reading and writing I created a task that fetches all games available on Xbox Game Pass right now, orders them by popularity, lists them al...

Live Creations #7 - Opening Android Wear Apps From Anywhere

Find out how to easily open an Android Wear app on your watch from anywhere!

Really sorry about the PC microphone sound. Hopefully you can still figure out everything I said there.

Let me know what you think :) Thanks!

Tasker losing SMS and Call functionality

As explained at the link,  Google is taking away SMS and Call functionalities from Tasker unfortunately. 

SMS is one of the most used features in Tasker!

People are justifiably unhappy with this, and trying to convince Google to open an exception for automation apps, which makes all the sense in the world!

An issue in their issue tracker has been created here and it has been flooded w...

Creating an AutoTools Web Screen. Example: Colors

This is how I always create web screens myself. May not be the best way, but it's the way it works for me :)

For reference, here's the Colors web screen so you can look at its source. Also, here's a demo video so you can see how it works.

Step 1: create folder for my webscreen in...

Interest in How To Create an AutoTools Web Screen

Would you be interested in a post that describes the details of creating an AutoTools Web Screen?

I would take an example (maybe the last Colors screen) and explain each part of the html file so it would become clear how everything works: the html, css and javascript part...

Live Creations #6 - Use Variables for States

In this new episode of Live Creations I'm hoping to convince you to use variables for states instead of using normal profile conditions directly :)

What I mean is, normally you have profiles that are something like:

If I'm connected to my work wifi network -> Set ringer volume to 1

I'm going to show you why this is better:

If I'm connected to my work wifi network -> Set %Work to 1, else clear variable %Work

If %Work is set...