Mini Tasker 0.2.5

Please note this is an early version, and we got a couple of crash reports, we're gonna address these as soon as possible. More technical details will be posted at the end.

Make your phone experience personal, Mini Tasker combines many apps into one by providing much needed automation to the tasks your phone already does.
The setup is done right from the device, no social networks or user accounts needed.
You can get started quickly by downloading predefined tasks from the internet or from your friends.

Here are some of the actions you can perform:
* Launch other apps
* Start playing music
* Control the phone's volume (mute etc)
* Set up a notification
* Send or forward SMS messages
* Control WiFi, Background Sync, Mobile Data, Airplane*, GPS*, Bluetooth, NFC
* Screen brightness
* Silence unwanted calls

You can select the conditions to be met for the actions above, here are a couple you can pick from:
* Location - pick a place on the map and you're done.
* Daily Time Range - you can pick the day of the week
* Calendar Event - you can match to specific events with keywords in the title/location etc.
* Activity Recognition - let the phone figure out if you're driving, walking, cycling or in one place.
* Headset connected
* Charger connected
* Phone is docked
* Low battery

This app is very battery efficient. All of the conditions don't require polling, activity recognition uses only low power sensors like the accelerometer and geo locations use the most power efficient method available on the phone (supports native geofencing on the nexus 4).
We do need the app to periodically wake up in order to not be killed by the android activity manager. This is our initial release so we're still tweaking the process to make it efficient. You can help if you enable statistics reporting in the settings window, this will tell us how many time the phone was awake and when.

We ask for a lot of permissions, and even then, some features like GPS and sometimes the Airplane mode require us to use the root permission (other features don't need root).
* Internet: We only access the internet when importing from a link, when browsing the task market, or when loading maps to the location condition editor. You can use a firewall like Droid Wall to deny our app internet access, it should keep working just fine accept for the features we just mentioned.
* Permission Revocation: We recommend you to patch your mod with PDroid (aka OpenPDroid or AutoPatcher) or if you can't, get LBE (for rooted phones) to manage permissions you're not comfortable with.
* Tracking: There are no ads or any 3rd party tracking at all, our statistics are disabled by default. The app doesn't phone home or tries to deanonymize the device.
* Privacy: If you share a task - it is uploaded to our servers and later downloaded by the recipient.

This is my and Michal Romano's university project, we really hope you like the result.

Share your favorite tasks with us! Long press them, select "Share" from the menu and email them to [email protected]

This app is not related to "Tasker" in any way. Tasker is a trademark of Crafty Apps Ltd http://tasker.dinglisch.net/

Technical Update:

We've discovered the app was killed a lot by the android process manager and sometimes failed to recover, to fix this we moved a lot of things around in 0.2.4. Unfortunately some GUI elements now trigger a crash (mostly pesky toasts).
We're gonna release a fix for these real soon, we just want to make sure we fix as much as possible. Keep the crash reports coming, they are very useful.

Tags: Tasker, onx, on{x}, Actions Pro, AutomateIt, Llama – Location Profiles, Chronos, Profile, RFRSH – Refresh for Android, Locale, Secure Settings, Smart Places, EasyProfiles, Makros.