IFTTT Finally Comes to Google Play With Special Android Powers

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By Karissa Bell2014-04-24 21:42:33 UTC

IFTTT, the service that automates the apps and services you use every day, has finally rolled into Google Play, bringing new tools to the service's Android users.

The Android app comes with six new channels for recipes specially optimized for Android devices.

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IFTTT, which stands for "if this, then that," is based around "recipes" — user-specified triggers that connect apps and services from around the web. The service allows users can be as creative as they want with filling in the blanks for the connections they want to make.

Recipes can include everything from setting email alerts if the forecast predicts rain and to automatically backing up SoundCloud posts to Dropbox.

The Android app, which has been available to iOS users since last summer, opens up unique opportunities for Android-specific recipes not possible on iOS like backing up text messages or recording a log of your phone calls, to name two examples.

IFTTT's Android app comes with new Android-specific recipes like setting your most recent Instagram post as your device's wallpaper.

The six Android-specific channels are SMS, device, location, notification, phone call and photo.

The company says they have more planned for the app and more Android recipes will likely be coming soon as IFTTT''s users get their hands on the app.

IFTTT is available on Google Play, the web and the iOS App Store.

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Topics: Android, apps-and-software, Apps and Software, Google Play, IFTTT, Mobile, Tech