Developing Android on Android

Addressing the Limitations

Creating the Pomodoro widget entirely in Tasker is a nice showcase of how powerful Tasker is for building your own widgets. But it also shows off Tasker’s limitations. A couple of problems with the widget’s current implementation are as follows:

• The icon text label updates only every two minutes because of Tasker’s two-minute profile execution limitation. It would be more intuitive to see the time remaining reflected every minute, just as you would expect a countdown to behave.

• When the countdown is finished and the remaining time is replaced by the “DONE!” label, the “DONE!” label persists until the next time the widget is touched again so that the countdown can be reinitiated. It would be nicer to see the “DONE!” ...