AutoApps - Now We're Cooking

Tasker, as I've said before, is the app for customizing your Android experience. There an almost unquantifiable amount of possibilities. To add even more fuel to the fire, developers are integrating their apps with Tasker and creating plugins that can add or use information to and from Tasker.

One developer in particular has given Tasker a whole new bag of tricks, and the fun just keeps on coming. If you haven't heard of them already (and if you've been following this blog, you have), let me introduce AutoApps.

AutoApps are an amazing collection of plugins that add to, and improve Tasker functionality. Developer João Dias has created what may be the most useful apps for any Tasker creator. Here's a rundown of his creations I use so far:

AutoVoice - AutoVoice is a significant improvement over the Get Voice Action in Tasker. It allows for regex recognition, variable creation and word substitution, among other things. Also, AutoVoice has a neat little Continuous mode so your device will always be awaiting your command.

AutoNotification - This plugin allows you to create your own notification with much more detail and control than the built-in Tasker Notify Action. You can customize your buttons, text, title, picture and even the ticker text. On top of that you can intercept other notifications and use their information as well...in Zooper? Hmmm...

AutoShare - Intents! AutoShare allows you to share data automatically and import or export Tasker variables to and from other apps even when there is no direct integration. There's a full list of currently available intents on João's website.

AutoLaunch: This plugin allows for launching any of your apps through Tasker variable. It's especially useful in conjunction with AutoVoice when you use the command '(open|go to) (?<app>.+)' with regex checked. This creates the variable %app to use in the AutoLaunch Plugin Action to launch whichever app you said.

AutoLocation: A massive improvement over Tasker's Location state, AutoLocation is a plugin that integrates Google's location services as well as a slew of highly accurate position based features. There's even a monitor that can tell if you're driving, cycling, walking or standing still.

These are just the ones that I currently have and use very frequently, but there are much more that are available that I'm hoping to make use of in the future. Make sure to check out the full list here.