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João Dias

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Remaking the Hourly Weather tutorial and Fixing the DarkSky API

Previously on the link above, the tutorial used the Weather Underground API with AutoWeb to get the weather forecast data.

 Since that's no longer available I had to find an alternative.

AutoWeb already had the DarkSky API available, but it was a bit of a mess. 

It had...

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How I deal with Forum Spam

I have a forum for my apps where people ask all sorts of questions.

http://forum.joaoapps.com/index.php

The problem is that it has a LOT of spam! It has so much spam that I have decided that I would not automatically approve any post but instead would look through all the posts manually and approve them one by one.

The problem is that the Forum software (XenForo) doesn't have a way of mass-marking stuff as ...

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Helping out a newcomer

Today I got a request from a Tasker newbie. He wanted to launch the clock app when he connects his phone to power, and close it when he disconnects from power, so I made him a small demo video!

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Automating screen taps works inside Tasker with no root!

So yesterday I found out that you can use the Run Shell action to automate taps without root within Tasker!

To be clear, this only works while Tasker itself is open, as soon as another app is in the foreground it'll cease to work.

Still, this can be handy if you want to automate any kind of process inside Tasker itself, so I thought I would share it! :)

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Next-Gen Tasker imports

In the next Tasker beta you'll be able to define a Launch Task when exporting a Project to Taskernet.

When the user imports the project, Tasker will offer to run that task so that any setup that's needed for the project to work will be done right away!

For example, if you need to query some values from the user to customize the project, you can do it in this View Post