5 Advanced Tasker Profiles to Make Life Simpler (3/3)
Tasker is an awesome app forautomating your Androidand it is an eminent fact that Tasker adds one more dimension to Android’s customization. There are many simple Tasker profiles that we have shared in the past. And since you guys have asked for more, we are here to share some of the tasker profiles that will help you stretch the limit of automation on your Android. We are going to discuss some advanced tasker profiles which will help you to get some momentum in implementing your ideas in an algorithmic fashion using Tasker.
We are going to discuss some advanced tasker profiles here, so make sure you have your basic cover up by reading ourbeginner’s tasker articles. And with that being said, fasten your seat-belt and let’s get started.
This post is a part of best Tasker profile series, you can findpart 1andpart 2here.
Advanced Tasker Profiles
#1 Avoid Angry Girlfriend!
Consider this scenario in which you are sleeping inside your home with your phone on silent mode and your girlfriend has arrived at the doorstep calling you continuously. Your phone doesn’t know that it is important for you to answer those calls and hence you end up losing important calls or sometimes your girlfriend as well. We can avoid this problem with an elegant solution using Tasker. How?
If you get 3 consecutive missed calls from the same number within 2 minutes, Tasker will trigger a loud Alarm.
We got the idea for this profile fromReddit/Tasker, an awesome community if you are into Tasker.
Implementation:
Connect both the tasks to our profile and we are done.
#2 Missed Call Notification on Email
You have two cell phones or when you are working, you don’t like to keep your cell phone near you. One way to solve this problem is to E-Mail a notification for each and every missed call on your phone to your own E-Mail account. To make things less tedious we will use a third-party E-mail application that supports Tasker integration. We are using “Email Me Pro” but there is also a free alternative named as “Email from Tasker” which you can use.
Configuration:
Connect the task with the profile and you are ready.
#3 Condition basedTriggersDesktops?
Suppose you are in your office and you want to use applications specific to your office work rather than your complete interface. Selecting those specific applications can be cumbersome when you are in rush, therefore, you must have office related mobile tools at your fingertips This problem can be tackled by certain applications like Contextual App Folder but there are some limitations like you will only get one folder. What if we want to change the complete desktop environment based on a condition?
To solve this problem completely we can use another third-party launcher named asLightning Launcheralong with Tasker. Lightning Launcher allows us to create completely new desktop environments and has fully functional Tasker integration. We will create two different desktops using Lightning Launcher and switch between them using Tasker conditions.
Connect Task 1 to Profile 1 and Task 2 to Profile 2 and enjoy the condition based Desktop Switching.
#4 Mobile Data Saver
Some users want to spend less mobile data due to expensive data plans and for those users, it is a necessity to save mobile data. To solve this problem, we have implemented a little different approach for data saving because turning your data OFF is not a permanent solution and you lose important notifications. The solution involves switching your mobile data mode to 3G whenever you turn OFF your screen and switching it back to LTE after turning ON the screen again.
You can use imported XML or you can manually add the code
Connect the Tasks to their corresponding profiles and you are done.
#5 Back to the Future
Not every profile needs to solve our problems and we can have some fun with Tasker as well. The list of cool things we can implement using Tasker is limitless. One such awesome profile is about playing Back to The Future theme whenever your car reaches the speed of 88 MPH. We will implement this idea using the System variable which provides your phone’s speed(%LOCSPD) provided that your Location services are on. Once we have the phone’s speed we can compare it with 88MPH and if the phone speed exceeds our speed limit, we will open the Wormhole (Trigger the BTTF theme).
Connect the Task with profile and you ready for time traveling.
Wrapping Up
So, these are the intermediate or Advanced level profiles which can make your life simpler and I hope that you found this article helpful. If you have a slightly different idea that you want to implement, then I can assure you that the tools provided here can be helpful as well. Let us know what you think regarding these profiles in the comments section below.
Pushkar Terwadkar
Main interest includes Technical Research in the area of Artificial Intelligence. Other Interests are Android Phone Hacking, Astronomy, Modern Physics.
