João Dias

Remaking the Hourly Weather tutorial and Fixing the DarkSky API

Previously on the link above, the tutorial used the Weather Underground API with AutoWeb to get the weather forecast data.

 Since that's no longer availab...

How I deal with Forum Spam

I have a forum for my apps where people ask all sorts of questions.

http://forum.joaoapps.com/index.php

The problem is that it has a LOT of spam! It has so much spam that I have decided that I would not automatically...

Helping out a newcomer

Today I got a request from a Tasker newbie. He wanted to launch the clock app when he connects his phone to power, and close it when he disconnects from power, so I made him a small demo video!

Automating screen taps works inside Tasker with no root!

So yesterday I found out that you can use the Run Shell action to automate taps without root within Tasker!

To be clear, this only works while Tasker itself is open, as soon as another app is in the foreground it'll cease to work.

Still, this can be handy if...

Next-Gen Tasker imports

In the next Tasker beta you'll be able to define a Launch Task when exporting a Project to Taskernet.

When the user imports the project, Tasker will offer to run that tas...