Questions tagged [tasker]

Tasker is an application for Android which performs tasks (sets of actions) based on contexts (application, time, date, location, event, gesture) in user-defined profiles or in clickable or timer home screen widgets.

Total Automation for Android

Tasker is an application for Android which performs tasks (sets of actions) based on contexts (application, time, date, location, event, gesture) in user-defined profiles or in clickable or timer home screen widgets.

This simple concept profoundly extends your control of your Android device and it's capabilities, without the need for 'root' or a special home screen.

Tasker came 3rd in the Productivity category in the Android Developer Challenge 2.

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XMLHttpRequest works in IE but not Chrome

I'm trying to get some info from my XBMC server via javascript. Eventually my goal is to modify/expand this script and use it in tasker, but for now i'm just trying to get it to work in the browser. It works fine in IE and writes '{' to the screen…
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Tasker: How to detect location changed?

I recently found out about Tasker on Android. I am thinking of performing some task on Device Unlock. But I want to avoid doing it over and over again, unless the location has "changed". (eg. by 5 metres or by 1km, doesn't matter, whatever easiest,…
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build a string that excludes text containing two specific words

I am trying to find the inverse of the following string but with no success: (?i)(?s)^(?=.*?word1)(?=.*?word2) I built this but it is for one word only and it does not even function properly, considering that if I test it with regex101 I got one…
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How do I get the weather read to me each morning?

I've wanted to create an app on my Android phone to tell me the weather each morning for a while now and have found many, many sites that tell you how to do it, but none of them really made it easy to edit their tasks - there was no real…
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rm -rf on android using tasker

might be answered somewhere else, but searched for a good hour, with no luck. what are the outputs the rm -rf command can give? both error and if successful. i have a virus of some sort, in my rom on my phone, and its the only rom i have found to…
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How do i stop a HTML block allowing unwanted scrolling

I have a very basic web page using the below code. The title block is allowing scrolling which I do not want. I'm certain it will be my poor HTML code. Could anyone point out what is wrong causing the scroll? The code is actually being used inside…
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python: Delete all SMS from tasker with SL4A

I'm trying to delete all text messages, both sent and received from Tasker on an Android Galaxy S4 M919 Rooted from tasker, by saving it as a .sh file in Sdcard/sl4a What is the code needed to put in SL4A Script, for Tasker to find? so far I have…
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Use regex to search and replace for characters in a word

Using regex, how can I check weather a word starts with some character, and ends with another one? For example, the word "black", how to check that it starts with "b" and ends with "k" using regex? And can I then make a replace using "search and…
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Where is ~ location on Android?

I am using Tasker to run a termux plugin. When I attempt to configure the sceduled task I am prompted with the following: No ~/.termux/tasker/ directory. You need to create a ~/.termux/tasker/ directory containing scripts to be executed. I have…
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Android can't make copy of database

I am trying to set up a Tasker task that will delete all alarms in the clock. I had it setup and working great on my old phone. What I did was made a copy of the alarms database when there were no alarms. When I want to delete the alarms that are…
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