When Sarah and Steve Tasker were raising their five children in East Aurora, N.Y., they made sure they encouraged each of them to locate where their skills intersected with their passion. Their son ...

The built-in features feel hollow and useless by comparison.

As powerful and as smart at our smartphones are, they're still pretty much like any other computer in our possession. We have to tell it what we want it to do and, most of the time, we do it manually ...

As I've covered before, Tasker is the ultimate Android app for hacks, automations, and customizations. $3.99 from the Google Play Store, it gives you deep access into the settings and features of ...

Arol is a tech journalist who worked as a news and feature writer for Android Police from 2021 to 2023. He first began writing online for the short-lived portal of Spanish-language gaming forum ...

I don’t know about you, but one of the main issues I have with fancy-pants smart phones is the multitude of options and settings I’m forced to wade through to get my handset to behave exactly how I ...

Dallas was working on cars at a Honda dealership rocking a MyTouch 4G when Artem and the gang started Android Police. It was this very website that got him into Android in the first place — he'd sneak ...

You might have noticed over the past two weeks that we're really into the Android automation app Tasker. We walked you through setup, then pushed it further. In the meantime, our readers have ...

After a few months of beta testing, Tasker 6.0.9 is now rolling out widely. The latest version of the popular automation app for Android brings the simplified Tasky UI with tons of preset routines.

Android: XDA TV producer Kevin (aka The Tech Ninja) came up with a way to make his phone as hands-free as possible using a combination of Tasker commands, Autovoice, and a few other helpful apps that ...

Most people describe Tasker as a task control and automation app. I see an Android programming app for the masses. Instead of scaring you with code lines, this tool lets you use a friendly interface ...

Reporter and columnist Fred Tasker wrote for the Miami Herald from 1969 to 2012 and was known as “The Wine Guy” for his Herald column and radio appearances broadcast on WLRN in South Florida from 1999 ...