u/Ooker777

When do you decide that you need to learn how to write a proper app rather than using Tasker?

I get that most of the time, if you just need to automate the device, not to make a full-fledged app with complex features, then Tasker is enough. But it seems from my limited experience that even with that purpose, writing scripts are just more efficient than touching screens, especially when you are already sitting at the laptop to do research, or to program a server to receive your phone requests. But if you have decided to writing scripts instead of touching screen, then I guess writing a dedicated Android app is more efficient than a Tasker script?

So my question is: at what point is the effort to learn how to write a proper app smaller than the effort to continue using Tasker? The advantage of Tasker is UX-friendlier than programing, but its homepage is so UX-unfriendly and lacks many important information, especially from a developer viewpoint. For instances I can't find a page to read more about the decisions being made behind the app, or a guide to set up the working environment to write Tasker scripts as least effort as possible.

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u/Ooker777 — 5 days ago
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When do you decide that you need to learn how to write a proper app rather than using Tasker?

I get that most of the time, if you just need to automate the device, not to make a full-fledged app with complex features, then Tasker is enough. But it seems from my limited experience that even with that purpose, writing scripts are just more efficient than touching screens, especially when you are already sitting at the laptop to do research, or to program a server to receive your phone requests. But if you have decided to writing scripts instead of touching screen, then I guess writing a dedicated Android app is more efficient than a Tasker script?

So my question is: at what point is the effort to learn how to write a proper app smaller than the effort to continue using Tasker? The advantage of Tasker is UX-friendlier than programing, but its homepage is so UX-unfriendly and lacks many important information, especially from a developer viewpoint. For instances I can't find a page to read more about the decisions being made behind the app, or a guide to set up the working environment to write Tasker scripts as least effort as possible.

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u/Ooker777 — 5 days ago