Developing Android on Android

Chapter 4Automating with Tasker

You can create sophisticated programs on Android that do what you want, when you want, all without having to learn anything about the Java language or the Android SDK. Better yet, you can wire up these programs using simple dialogs and icons that represent all the major functions that your Android device can do. In this chapter, I will show you how to do so with a little help from an Android program called Tasker.^[33]

Tasker provides the ability to easily define and execute powerfully scripted actions that can be triggered by application, time, location, state, and event changes. With it, you could create a simple task that would automatically change the screen orientation to landscape and turn on the GPS radio ...