Hi,
Is there a way to have an icon on the home screen that automatically starts a timer that you have preset, then pops up an alert or one of those messages that doesn't interrupt and tells you that time is up, or possibly also speaks a preset message?
Thanks.
Jim
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workflow
I don't think there are any apps specifically to do this, but you can do this with workflow. If you're not familiar with it, it's an app that allows you to build small actions. It's a bit limited, and I've never quite liked it, but this is definitely a possibility. Here is a system I set up, which gets the job done.
1. repeat action: repeat for the number of minutes you want
2. wait action. set this to 60
3. end repeat. (from 1)
4. Notification of timer completion.
For completion, some options are the show alert action, which will produce a window which you close by clicking a button, vibrate device, and play sound. By the way, you can set it to increase the volume before playing the sound, if desired.
From there, you can put those on the home screen. However, they won't have any indication of whether they're running, so they're not as nice as you'd like.