We always say, for example when talking about the potential of iOS and Android on high-end tablets, that the strong point of Android continues to be the infinity of customization options that it offers us and we must insist that these are not limited to the possibilities of changing the appearance of our devices with launchers e custom icons, as we are going to see remembering how to automate tasks on your Android of any kind.
How to automate tasks on your Android of any kind with Tasker, and how to try it for free
Although one of the clear objectives of Google is to make our devices Android they adjust better and better to our habits by learning from how we use them and they have undoubtedly advanced a lot in this regard, no one knows better what we want and our customs than ourselves. This is why it is still appreciated to have the option of using an app to automate any task that we can think of.
For this we are going to recommend that you try Bags, an app that we have recommended to you on several occasions, but now we are going to see in more detail how it works and all the possibilities it offers us. And although we are sure that you will not regret it if you decide to invest the 3 euros it costs if you want to leave your Android tablet or smartphone to your liking, we must remember that we can download a free 7-day trial version from here if we want to take a look first. If you have any questions about how to install it, you can consult our tutorial to install APK applications.
How to set the rules to automate processes
Although it is the type of application that has always been said to be very complex and that could throw many users back, in reality the difficulty is only in creating the precise orders so that they respond well to our needs because in reality its use It is very easy to understand, if we are clear that what we are going to do is just establish orders like "if ... then ...".
The first thing we have to do is select in the tab "profiles”The starting point of the action that we want to automate and that can refer to hours or days in which we do something in particular, to applications that we want to use in a certain way, to locations where we want the device to behave in a a specific shape or states of the same in which we want to modify settings. To obtain the list of options, we just have to click on the cross that appears at the bottom right.
Once we have our chosen starting point, it will directly invite us to assign it a homework, or we can add a new one by going directly to that tab. It gives us the option of giving it a name, which may be comfortable, but it is not mandatory, we click on the cross again and we have a new list with all the options at our disposal. There are so many that they are grouped by sections (audio settings, dialog settings, alert, application ...) and we have a filter to search directly. Finally, we can go to "scenes" and choose how the warning will appear on the screen when one of them is executed.
An example: a setting to save battery
Many devices already have their own configuration to save battery and there are also apps dedicated to it, but one of the many things we can do with Tasker is to make one exactly to our measure, if there is a setting that we do not want to be touched even if it consumes something else , and we are going to use this case to show an example. The only thing we would have to do is go to “profiles", Press the cross, choose"state"And there we go to"charge / battery", We choose"level", We leave the" from "at 0 and put in the A, for example, 20%. We can already give it back.
Now we choose a new task and add an order to reduce the brightness level, going to "screen" and "screen brightness”And we put, for example 20% as well. When it is done, we go back and click on the cross again to add prohibit the "auto-sync", Going to" red ". We can put as many orders as we want to enter and you will see that the degree of freedom we have to adjust the actions to our liking is immense. It takes some work to leave everything to our liking, but We only have to do it once and we can forget forever.
Some interesting options: activate profiles, delete tasks, edit them, apply them manually ...
If we click on the list of tasks that we have created from the initial screen, the list with all of them will open. If we click on one of them we can edit, but if we make a long press on one of them, the cut, copy, paste and suspend icons will appear, which we can use to change the order (in our example it is not important, but in others it may be), but also to copy a specific task in another profile. And if what we want is to copy a profile to another device where we have the app installed, we only have to select it, click on the three-point menu, choose export, and then import it wherever we want.
If we go directly to the tasks tab and do a long press on one of them instead of opening the editing options, what will appear will be the option to change the name or directly delete it. An interesting function that must always be borne in mind is that of run them manually, for which we only have to press the play button, which will appear both on the general task screen, and when we enter the edition of one of them.
Some cool ideas of functions to automate
The example that we have given you is one of the most basic, but there is a huge list of possibilities (covering the functions of many more specific apps) and surely you already have some in mind starting from something that bothers you to have to be doing continuously every time "X". In any case, we have some interesting ideas in case you need a little inspiration, based on some of the most frequently used uses.
We can, for example, put our smartphone in silent mode simply turning it over (going in profiles to “state","sensor","orientation","screen down”And then activating the corresponding tasks), make the music plays immediately when headphones are connected (by going to “state","hardware","headphones connected”And then select the task to launch the corresponding app), apply the automatic rotation to certain applications only (we create a profile for the apps in question and then we go to “screen"And"screen rotation"), block apps so that they can only be opened with a password (we choose the app in question and stop creating the task we are going to “screen"And"screen lock”) ...