What does Microsoft do developing apps for Android? That's the first thing that comes to mind when talking about on {ex}, which can be pronounced as onex. The application aims to organize our lives with the help of mobile phones and a web. In this we create a task that is then triggered on the device at a certain moment or before a given action. It is surprising that Microsoft has made it for Android and not for Windows Phone. But after the surprise, you discover that the on {ex} is very useful.
With the help of Java, Microsoft has set up a website where, with some practice, you can code a specific task, for example, open the music player, and assign it to a given moment on the mobile. Thus, we can make music play on the mobile when its sensors detect that we are walking. For those who are afraid of lines of code, Microsoft offers a series of ready-made recipes.
Thus, in addition to activating the music player, in the catalog of tasks that only have to be sent to the mobile, some appear, such as showing the weather at a predetermined time if the temperature is lower or higher than a certain degree. Along the same lines, the mobile can remind us to take the umbrella if the weather app says that it may rain.
The list, which includes a dozen recipes, It also has recoratories to, for example, buy milk on the way home, show the horoscope of a certain sign each day when we get up or let the mobile write a warning text to your wife or husband when you leave work on the way home .
Actually, the list is just a series of examples to encourage us to create our own recipes ourselves. They are made with Java Script, but following the examples, it is only a matter of changing some parameters for others. The on {ex} app takes advantage of the possibilities of location, dates, speed, time and other conditions registered by the mobile to link them with specific tasks. I said a very good idea.
What is not clear is that Microsoft launches it first for Android. It could be a nod to the rival platform, but rather it is an acknowledgment that Windows Phone, at least in its current version, cannot do what Android does.
The best thing is that you try yourselves on {ex}.