Android

TWRP is a recovery image for Android devices. That is, it’s a tiny, self-contained operating system that you can boot to (often, by holding a button while booting the device) and perform operations such as backups, restores and installation of other images. One nice feature of TWRP is that it’s quite flexibly themeable; the theme’s aren’t just re-colours, you can move buttons around quite a bit.

Now, most of the instructions I’ve seen for installing a theme consist of the following:

Inspired by some examples on the Tasker Wiki, I decided it’d be nice to make my new Android phone speak the weather to me in the morning. The current examples, while great demonstrations of the power of Tasker, didn’t seem quite right to me. The language produced by chopping up the XML from, say, AccuWeather didn’t seem all that natural to me, so I decided to offload that part of the processing to my web server. Bring on the PHP.