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Let’s take a tour of your favourite non-game paid apps in 2023 that are worth every penny!
No APKs please. Play Store links and app screenshots are encouraged. FOSS projects worth a contribution or two (whether a donation or paid version) are also more than welcome!
Let’s skip the games (that’s a story for another day) and spotlight some ever-reliable paid apps recommended by @[email protected]:
- Tasker: The master of automation, turning your device into an efficiency wizard.
- Titanium Backup: Safeguarding your data with finesse.
- SD Maid: Your neat freak companion, maintaining cleanliness and speed.
- BigBag: Organizing your shopping escapades like a champ.
- Wolfram Alpha: The answer guru for all things complex.
Here’s to building a treasure trove of invaluable apps and supporting those who keep the Android landscape innovative and vibrant!
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I have never actually found anything to use Tasker for…
The most useful profile I use Tasker for is controlling ringer volume at specific times. I always run it on vibrate at home and away from work (I have a watch for important notifications). So if I’m at work and in the office I set the ringer to lowest level 1 so I hear it but it doesn’t go off super loud in a meeting or whatever. If I’m at work and out of the office (in the plant or outside on site) the ringer is at full volume. Automatically goes back to vibrate when I leave the property. Next step to this is when I’m on call. I need to hear my phone ring when I’m on call so when my Google calendar event called weekend duty is occuring I have a profile that keeps my phone on vibrate but when a call is incoming it
sayssets it to the loudest setting before it starts ringing. This prevents me wife and I from hearing notification dings and beeps from daily use.This is my favorite use for Tasker but I have others that are almost as good. Maybe this sparked a little inspiration for you.
I get it, that sounds useful. But in my case I leave my phone silences 24/7 and only put on my watch when I want to get notifications. This has been by far my favortite way to manage notifications. Thanks for the reply. I keep trying to think of something to use it for.
I used Tasker a lot more back when android wasn’t as mature as it is now. Nowadays I use it sparringly, but it’s an invaluable tool to have access to. When you run into something you cannot do directly through Android, odds are Tasker can fix it for you.
This is one of my simple tasks. We have a shared laundry room. You can only register one person per apparment and therefore only one phone number. When the machines are done washing, only I receive a text message. With Tasker, I forward this message automatically to my SO, so that we’re both notified.
On the more superfluous side: I have an old Stadia controller - Rip Stadia :'(. Now when I connect the controller to my phone, it automatically launches XBOX game pass, which is nice, but by no means essential.
Once I made a complicated Tasker task that ran on a secondary phone. By saying certain prompts through Google Home using autovoice, I could switch the country on my VPN on my router. All voice prompts, connections to the router and commands were setup and handled within Tasker.
So in short. If you identify repetitive tasks that you’re always doing manually, then odds are you can spend some time in Tasker to create automations for them. Then again, sometimes you get to spend way longer time tinkering than you’d ever do doing the manual task :-D
This is great. Thanks for the info. The VPN truck is pretty slick.