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IFTTT launches on Android with deeper integration than on iOS

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Re: IFTTT launches on Android with deeper integration than on iOS

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Post by swanson »

josephschmoe wrote: post #14

As an Android user, I have one question: How does IFTTT compare to Tasker?

From poking around with IFTTT a bit today, Tasker is way more advanced in terms of what you can do with your device (settings, launching other apps, phone specific stuff) but the UI is very complicated and confusing. IFTTT's UI is really nice and has more integration with web services and popular social apps (Twitter, Instagram, etc), but the device integrations are pretty limited.

I imagine as IFTTT continues building they will add more device integrations - at which point I'd happily switch from Tasker.

Re: IFTTT launches on Android with deeper integration than on iOS

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Post by chrisdevereux »

bluetidepro wrote: post #8

Congrats on their big launch! This is very exciting for their Android users! I'm not going to lie, as an iOS user I'm quite jealous. Ha This gives Android users quite a bit more tiggers available for them that iOS users can't do. The iOS app can only do basic things like calendar, contacts, and photos. Things such as "sending a text as yourself", changing settings on your phone, etc. are awesome features they added f…

It should be possible for IFTTT to send an SMS with the user's number as sender without involving the phone at all. Which might be preferable anyway, as it doesn't rely on your phone being reachable when an event is triggered.

Not sure how much it would cost per message and whether it's feasible for a free service like IFTT, but it can be done.

Re: IFTTT launches on Android with deeper integration than on iOS

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Post by mrfusion »

Will IFTTT have traffic triggers in the future? I've been wanting a way to get traffic alerts before leaving work for years. I've found a few places that offer it, but nothing has been reliable.

In a perfect world I'd tie traffic conditions to when my alarm clock wakes me up!

Re: IFTTT launches on Android with deeper integration than on iOS

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Post by n3t »

JoshTriplett wrote: post #32

Any plans for download integration? I'd love to see ifttt rules like "when I add a YouTube video to Watch Later, download it to my device next time I'm on Wifi".

Workaround: IFTTT provides an option to download a file to, for example, Dropbox (note: be aware of file size limit). One can use his/her server with script which streams video (or anything else) based on the source URL to make video/audio/whatever downloadable. Then Android device just syncs and voilà!

Re: IFTTT launches on Android with deeper integration than on iOS

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Post by sirkneeland »

joeblau wrote: post #22

Congrats to IFTTT and Jordan Beck for shipping this product. I'm seeing more and more apps on iOS which are ported to Android only to be met by an incumbent app that is on par or superior to the iOS offering. I love IFTTT but the iOS restrictions make it difficult to enable the types of recipes I really want to create.

Let us all remember that the blame for those iOS IFTTT limitations resides entirely with Apple. IFTTT have done the best they can (and it's still pretty great).

The tradeoff one makes when submitting to iOS is one that should be more publicized than it currently is.

Re: IFTTT launches on Android with deeper integration than on iOS

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Post by willtheperson »

chrisdevereux wrote: post #33
bluetidepro wrote: post #8

Congrats on their big launch! This is very exciting for their Android users! I'm not going to lie, as an iOS user I'm quite jealous. Ha This gives Android users quite a bit more tiggers available for them that iOS users can't do. The iOS app can only do basic things like calendar, contacts, and photos. Things such as "sending a text as yourself", changing settings on your phone, etc. are awesome features they added f…

It should be possible for IFTTT to send an SMS with the user's number as sender without involving the phone at all. Which might be preferable anyway, as it doesn't rely on your phone being reachable when an event is triggered. Not sure how much it would cost per message and whether it's feasible for a free service like IFTT, but it can be done.

Is that really possible? I've wanted to do that before and looked into Twilio but it's basically number spoofing and would make spamming people far too easy.

If you've found a way, I'd love to hear it

Re: IFTTT launches on Android with deeper integration than on iOS

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Post by gallamine »

bluetidepro wrote: post #8

Congrats on their big launch! This is very exciting for their Android users! I'm not going to lie, as an iOS user I'm quite jealous. Ha This gives Android users quite a bit more tiggers available for them that iOS users can't do. The iOS app can only do basic things like calendar, contacts, and photos. Things such as "sending a text as yourself", changing settings on your phone, etc. are awesome features they added f…

I use IFTTT to send myself multiple text messages a day, to which I respond and log the results in a Google Doc spreadsheet. Each month I blast past the 100 message limit. I've asked IFTTT to let me pay them for more messages but they said no.

Re: IFTTT launches on Android with deeper integration than on iOS

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Post by gallamine »

mrfusion wrote: post #35

Will IFTTT have traffic triggers in the future? I've been wanting a way to get traffic alerts before leaving work for years. I've found a few places that offer it, but nothing has been reliable. In a perfect world I'd tie traffic conditions to when my alarm clock wakes me up!

You could write your own traffic RSS feed and use that as a trigger.
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