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New essential Android apps thread
- Thread starter Rilot
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I absolutely love Automate Android, it's like Tasker but more visual. Unfortunately apps like these are getting nerfed as time goes on due to changes to Android.
Just for fun, I made a 'flow' that listens for an Android Auto, or Bluetooth connection (Bluetooth only wasn't firing the flow and I assume it's the handhake being different if the BT connection is initiated b Android Auto). When a connection is seen, it starts another flow that listens for 'ETA postcode' via WhatsApp, it then quieries a Google API using my current location and the postcode to get an ETA to the postcode from where I am via driving. There's some fail safe checks in there such as pinging Google before trying to query the API.
I've also made it reverse Geocode my location on connection to the car, POST to a Google Sheet AppScript, which logs the date, time and address at the start and end of the trip.
This is for claiming mileage via P87 and whilst I have TripLog that records my trips and mileage, i'm not using the paid version to download the reports to easily get the trips as part of the P87 backup.
This is the flow just for listening for the car connection:
Just for fun, I made a 'flow' that listens for an Android Auto, or Bluetooth connection (Bluetooth only wasn't firing the flow and I assume it's the handhake being different if the BT connection is initiated b Android Auto). When a connection is seen, it starts another flow that listens for 'ETA postcode' via WhatsApp, it then quieries a Google API using my current location and the postcode to get an ETA to the postcode from where I am via driving. There's some fail safe checks in there such as pinging Google before trying to query the API.
I've also made it reverse Geocode my location on connection to the car, POST to a Google Sheet AppScript, which logs the date, time and address at the start and end of the trip.
This is for claiming mileage via P87 and whilst I have TripLog that records my trips and mileage, i'm not using the paid version to download the reports to easily get the trips as part of the P87 backup.
This is the flow just for listening for the car connection:
Didn't realise this was on the Play store too, was using the F-droid version. Definitely handy since I found there was some public WiFi hotspots weirdly blocked private DNS, this makes it much quicker to toggle on/off.