Camera Button Menu

In this example, we'll create a Menu Task that will popup when the camera button is pressed.

The steps are aimed at Tasker v1.2+.

You must disable Beginner Mode in order to create this profile, see Menu / Prefs / UI / Beginner Mode.

1. make sure you're in the Profile tab, then click +, choose a name if you like and select Event for the context
2. select category Hardware and then Button: Camera
3. select priority Highest and check Stop Event to prevent other apps responding to the press
4. select New Task and give the task a name if you like
5. click + in the bottom left to add an action
6. select category Alert and action Menu
7. now we need to add the items to our menu
8. click + in the bottom bar to add an item then the Action button to configure an action for it
9. select App then Load App then the Camera app: our first menu item will start the camera if selected
10. select App then Load App then the Camcorder app: our second menu item will start the camcorder app
11. add a few more actions with +
12. click Done