Automation

Automation is an Android app to automate certain things on your device. You can get the app from those sources:

Get it from the open source store F-Droid:
Download the APK from my server without any store
Version archive
There is also the Google Play version, but I recommend to use one of the other options instead. See below for the reasons:

What are the differences?

F-Droid: The Activity Detection feature isn't included as it relies on the Play Services. Everything else works.
APK version: No limitations in functionality whatsoever. It won't update to newer version automatically, but in settings you can activate an automatic check for new versions.
Google Play: If you're above Android 9 location based rules don't work anymore. Also phone-related rules (calls or send sms) don't work here - thank Google for that.
Google burdends developers with more and more ridiculous restrictions every year. I've tried to reason with them, but it fails every time. So all I can do is remove feature after feature from that version. It's also the least tested one.

Permissions

Here's an explanation of the permissions.

Examples

Here are examples of some interesting things one can do with the program. Also find help for how to use the start program feature.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Forum

Visit the forum

Privacy policy

Find the privacy policy of Automation here.

Source code

Find the source code here.

Credits

Thanks for contributions go to:

Italian translation: Raffaelle
Italian translation (refresh): Stefano Prenna and Simone Dotto
Dutch translation: anonymous
Russian translation: Denis Speranskiy
French translation: Thama
French translation (refresh): Lejun
Chinese translation: Jingyu Wang

Donate

If you wish to donate, please find the options here: https://server47.de/donate/

Changelog

For a changelog please refer to the repository.

Known problems or requested features

Known problems

Excessive location checking (however battery usage is low and your data isn't going anywhere)

This is the changelog of the next version, which has not been released, yet. If your issue is mentioned among those changes, please just be patient and wait for that version to be released. If your problem is not mentioned there, please report it to me.

* Added option to choose between Global, System and Secure for set settings
* Fixed: Crash when opening the application through the running service's notification
* Fixed: Crash when starting service and show service icon was deactivated in app settings
* Fixed: "Bluetooth connect" permission was not requested for turning Bluetooth on or off.
* Fixed: Another app started/stopped couldn't be added when UI language was Dutch.
* Fixed: Check for non-decimal number in some input fields

Long-term goals

In addition I have these things on the radar:

Reorganize triggers and actions. Due to the increase of capabilities the overview of possibilities has suffered a bit.