How do we proceed?
First, if you have any questions or if you want to learn more about IFTTT,
I invit you to visit their
documentation page.
It is very complete and it will help you understand how to proceed if
you want to go further.
Now, I want to show you how to create an Applet that could
be used often. I will explain the process step by step :
Step 1 : Setting up
After register in IFTTT, click on your profile and click on 'Create'. When you are here, you arrive on a page with written 'If Then This That' : this is where we will deal with every part of our Applet. In fact, this is through this interface that we will decide what we are going to do.
Step 2 : Choose the trigger
The trigger is the start of everything, our applet is simply useless without it. Click on 'This' to select one, then in the search bar click on 'Connect Button widget'. As you can read on it, it will create an icon which you can put on your smartphone's homescreen, and it will execute the action we want just by clicking on it. :)
For the two nexts windows you only have one action available so just click on them to continue.
Step 3 : Choose the action
Now that our trigger is set, we have to define what we want it to
execute, what happens when we will press this icone?... Well once
again you have a looooot of possibilities.
Here let's build a security Applet, imagine you are in danger (of
course I hope you will not have to use it one day!) and you want to
quickly send a message with your position to someone, well that is
what we will be doing.
To do so : click on 'Then That' and search for Android SMS.
Now, you just have to fill in the fields as you want, ingredients are
variables given by your device that are really helpful. In our
context it will allow us to send a message to the person we want and
give him/her our exact position, as you can see on the screenshot below.
