I use Tasker (US$3, IIRC) for that. I also disable USB debug when I leave home. (If something happens to the phone, I can come home (or go to my daughter's house - I have it triggering on 2 different wifi IDs) and get into it with adb, but if someone "finds" it, they can't.) I also use it to change the screen timeout for various apps (I can sit and read a Wikipedia article for more than the 30 seconds I usually have the timeout set to, and when I'm shopping I may not touch the phone for 3 or 4 minutes, but I don't want the screen timing out and locking on me.)
There are litreally hundreds (maybe thousands) of Tasker scripts on various forums to do all sorts of things.
If you can't write your own Android apps (or don't want to bother to), Tasker is the next best thing. Once you get familiar with it, some tasks that you want to write to stop something that annoys you take less than a minute to write. (If you've never written any computer code, though, the learning curve is pretty steep. But it's worth it according to a lot of people I've spoken to who started with no knowledge of programming at all.)
08-17-2014 04:03 PM
