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Someone on the Android Wear subreddit was able to obtain a test build of the upcoming update headed to Android Wear. He just published a video that demos some of the new features including an enabled external speaker on the Huawei Watch, Audio Feedback, music playback, call options, emoji picker and more.
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We actually had some fun last week going over some of our best Android customization posts from the year, it reminded us some of the fun we've had. It's almost the new year now, and forgive me for stretching here, but I am inspired to think of time. Before we really dive into root stuff, let's do one more lazy Tasker project, a clock.
The idea is simple, we're building a type of cuckoo clock, but silent. Every hour, on the hour, we'll make your phone vibrate one tick for each hour of the current time. Simple enough, at 4pm, your device will vibrate four quick spurts (or 16 if you use the 24 hour clock like I do) and there is no need to pull your phone out to check the time.
Hey, it's the end of the year, let's have some fun. Truth is, I was planning to give you a big project here today, we were going to use Tasker to act as a musical instrument, to play Auld Lang Syne. Feel free to check out MIDI and all the magic and horror it can bring, or hold on, perhaps I'll get this thing working at a later date.
Tasker - Google Play StoreYou've seen these words before, you'll need a modern Android device, one with a vibration motor, and Tasker installed. Tasker is $2.99 in the Google Play Store.
There are a few steps in this tutorial, but we're going to work with a simple For Loop instead of properly creating an array variable. No time for that level of crazy brain usage this holiday season, let's just make some noise.
No delay's, let's just get into this. Also, I'll leave it to you to go back and check out previous tutorials to learn how exactly to do some of these things. I'll leave links for you along the way.
Fire up Tasker, head into the Tasks tab and fire up a new Task, I'll name mine "SilentClock".
First up, a few variables.
How to: variables in Tasker
How to: variable Split in Tasker
Create a new Variable. Name: "%timetoalert". To: "%TIME"
That gives you the current time in format 4.48, (or 16.48,) for example. So we will now split the variable to get just the hour.
Variable Split. Name: "%timetoalert". Splitter: "." and feel free to Delete Base, we won't need it.
Now we will use a For Loop to handle the next part. As mentioned earlier, the proper thing to do would be to build an array with the vibration times saved in ms. We're keeping it simple, we'll just loop as many times as the hour count, that'll be four times, for our example.
How to: For Loop with Tasker
Add a new For Loop, Tasks -> For. Then Variable: "%arrtime". Items: "1:%timetoalert1".
I bet that made no sense at all. I explain the variable part in the tutorial linked above, but where did that "1:%timetoalert1" come from? It's easy, actually, we need to run the loop at least once, and repeat it for as many times as the hour in the day. If you recall how Variable Split works, we stripped out the 4 in our example 4.48 using the "." as a splitter, now %timetoalert1 has the value of 4, and if you wanted it, %timetoalert2 has value 48. In this example, we told the the loop to run from 1:4. 4 o-clock, bingo.
Now vibrate, I don't recall if we have done this one before.
Tap the "+" button, select Alert, select Vibrate.
Set the Time to something short, like 200.
Now manually wait for a second. "+" -> Task -> Wait -> 1 second.
Now finish up the loop properly with an End For, easy, "+" -> Task -> End For.
That's the core of the Task, now just need a little Profile to make it happen.
Head over to the Profile tab and create a new Profile.
Select Time.
I recommend only having this Profile active during your waking hours, no point ruining your sleep. Set From to the nearest even hour your after you normally wake up, let's say 8am (08:00).
Set To to your usual bed time plus a couple minutes, say 10:02pm (22:02).
Finally, set Repeat to every 1 hour.
That's it. Starting at the next active hour your device will vibrate as many times as the hour of the day. Feel free to increase the vibration time if the 200ms is too quick, just be sure that your vibration time is less than your Wait time.
I added a little 'heads-up' for this project, just a 1000ms vibration followed by a 3 second delay before my Loop begins. I found I was missing the first few ticks, so this warning gets my attention, then I can count the ticks.
I talked earlier about using an array and the Vibrate Pattern action to do this properly. Truth told, I have no plan on handling this any time soon, you're on your own, folks. No worries, array variables are a common enough topic around the Tasker water coolers, Google it up and you'll find what you need.
If you find that your notification isn't working exactly as you'd expect, let's say, for example, that your vibrations do not go off in succession like they should, we may change Profile priority. Long press the Profile then tap the menu icon in the top right of the screen. Under Launched Task Priority, bump it up a bit, I've moved mine to 30, which should get the job done. It is not advised to go too high here, but keep bumping it up until you get teh desired results.
Final thoughts, the concept of this project is once again to get you thinking and experiencing Tasker, we have certainly not built a bullet proof silent clock here. Of primary concern, the new Doze functionality of Android 6.x Marshmallow will, by default, put Tasker to sleep. You'll need to open up Doze to allow Tasker through (perhaps we'll look at that another day) or accept that your silent cuckoo clock is just not going to work when your device has been immobile for a while. Sorry.
I admit this project was a little over-simplified, not that that makes it a bad project, there were things to learn in this project, like that silly For Loop variable requirement, hope it works out for you. Next week is going to be tough for me folks, we'll be on the floor at CES and I may not get to post anything for you, I feel bad about that, but I promise to learn a trick or two at the show that I can share later. Once we're back to normal, next up on our Android customization series we'll be continuing with root fun, we've got that Nexus 7 all ready to rock.
Happy New Year!
Looking for more Android customization projects? Check these ones out:
Best Android customization projects of 2015
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This is the best of 2015, as determined by you, our readers.
Thousands of you weighed in over a couple of week on what's changed how you work and play. These are what replaced the devices on your wrists, in your pocket, on your laps or desks, and in your living rooms. They're what dictates the look of your home screens and our docks.
They're the devices and features, gear and accessories, and apps and games that filled us all with surprise and delight, got us to forget what came before, and made it impossible for us to imagine how we ever lived without them.
They're your 2015 Android Central Readers' Choice Award winners!
No real surprise here, and it won by a large margin. You can argue whether the Nexus 6P truly is the best phone around — the Note 5 certainly should be a close second, and LG's definitely in the conversation. But for most folks who frequent this site and chime in on the year-end awards, the Nexus 6P certainly is the phone of choice. And for once we've got a Nexus phone that absolutely can hold its own in that argument.
Runner-up: Galaxy Note 5
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The Indian smartphone market made a 0.7 percent increase from September to October, vaulting the nation over the 1 billion user threshold to 1.03 billion users. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India just released this information yesterday, making India the second country in the world to reach this milestone.
Anyone care to take a guess at what that first country was? Anyone? Anyone?
India's population, which triples that of the United States, has created a ravenous market for the smartphone industry. Whereas the US really only has four major carriers, a proportional twelve battle over subscribers and contract holders in India. This fierce competition combines with other factors to make India's phone bills some of the least expensive in the world. It's no surprise that smartphone manufacturers and service providers in every time zone are turning an interested eye to this smartphone-hungry nation.
Although the US remains a major market for flagship and high-end devices, mid-range and entry-level manufacturers are having far more success in the continent of Asia. Bulk sales and mass usership speak for themselves. After all, India has had more smartphone users than the US since – are you ready for this? – 2008. In the ~8 years between then and now, US smartphone usage has increased only by about 100 million users. In the same time frame, India has seen a number of new smartphone subscribers that surpasses the total population of the United States. Almost times two.
So for all you Westerners thinking your market is the center of the smartphone world… You might want to reconsider your worldview.
What are your thoughts regarding India's explosive growth in smartphone adoption? Let us know in the comments below!
(Oh, and it was China, obviously. China hit a billion users all the way back in 2012. Didn't want to leave you hanging.)
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When it comes to buying a new phone, we have a tendency to stick close to home.
In our first look at the purchase interest and intent of the Mobile Nations' communities, we tapped into the level of demand for tablets, watches, and TV boxes being offered by the biggest smartphone providers. But the smartphone itself remains the primary digital device for many, and plenty of companies have debuted offerings in the past few months that vied to become holiday purchases — or at least a last-minute buy before the calendar flips over.
So late last month, we asked over 5,700 readers of Android Central, CrackBerry, iMore and Windows Central to share their thoughts on what could be taking their calls. Even the smartphones that garnered the most interest didn't muster the same amount of attention as some of the hot (and newer) non-smartphone products like as Android Wear, Apple TV and the Surface Book.
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Acer has announced a new entry into its Chromebox lineup with the Chromebox for meetings CXV2.
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Back in November Google announced that Android Wear was gaining support for cellular connectivity, as well as support for speakers and phone calls. These three features were supposed to be the big selling points for LG's Watch Urbane 2nd Edition LTE, which unfortunately never made it to market due to hardware issues. This meant we never really got the chance to play around with these features and to see how they worked on the Android Wear platform.
With that said, the new version of Android Wear that brings speaker support might not be too far off, according to one lucky user on Reddit. According to the posting, Huawei has sent out an updated build of Wear to Huawei Watch owners enrolled in a special user test group that brings full audio and speaker support. The user's Huawei Watch received an update to Android Wear build 1.4.0, running atop Android 6.0.1. The user says his device's speaker is now functional, and he can place and receive phone calls directly from his watch.
The Redditor also confirmed that users are able to select ringtones directly from the watch, enable text-to-speech (which the user claimed was quite annoying), and even play Google Play Music from the watch itself.
We're not sure when Huawei plans to roll this update out to all Huawei Watch units, but at least we know now that the company is actively testing the next big update. We'll be sure to update you as we learn more.
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