Dive Into: Tasker

In 2009, Google had the Android Developer Challenge 2. It covered several different categories of apps. One of which was Productivity/Tools. The developers of Apt decided to migrate its functionality to the Android OS. The result was Tasker. Their app managed to come in 3rd in their category. I remember reading about it when the contest took place and being quite impressed with it but did not install it or delve into how it worked at the time. Still, it stayed in the back of my mind as the years passed.

Last year, I finally got around to installing it on my (previous) phone and attempted to play around with it. What I knew going in was that Tasker had a high learning curve, but I didn't realize how high until I tried to create my first profile. I was overwhelmed by the task (sorry, pun) and put it aside for later exploration.

Last Monday, I picked up the Samsung Galaxy S3 as a birthday present to myself. Having this cool new phone (which is definitely one of the best if not the best phone on the market right now) and not getting the most out of it seemed wrong. So, on went Tasker. Over the past couple of days, I have spent some of my free time going over the guides listed on its site. The videos I watched first, following the steps on the S3 even though I didn't keep them all. I'm about halfway through the Pocketables tuts (on the middle of the Scenes part).