Manual trigger

Press a RUN button, and your data — text, photos, audio, or any combination — goes directly from your phone to your automation workflow.

• Text input — type freeform text or use voice-to-text to dictate. Both are sent as the same textInput field.
• Photo capture — take a photo with your camera or select from gallery. Sent as a file in a multipart request.
• Audio recording — record audio directly from your phone’s microphone. Sent as a file alongside other inputs.
• Combine inputs — enable any combination of text, photo, and audio on a single trigger for rich data capture.
• Home screen widget — add a trigger to your Android home screen for one-tap execution without opening the app.
• Free to use — manual triggers are included in the free version of FlowTrigger.
• Offline support — request will be queued and processes automatically when connection is back.
• Full HTTP control — customize method, field names, authentication, headers, and add custom JSON fields in the Advanced tab.

What does the JSON payload look like for a manual trigger?

FlowTrigger manual triggers support three system JSON fields:

Field	Description	JSON Field	Content Type
Text input	Type freeform text into the input field or use voice-to-text.	textInput	JSON
Voice Input	Record audio from your phone’s microphone	audioInput	multipart/form-data file
Photo Input	Capture a photo or select from gallery	photoInput	multipart/form-data file

All field names are customizable in the Advanced settings tab. You can also add custom JSON fields to the request body alongside the system fields. For example, if you add a custom field category: "expenses", the body becomes:

{
  "textInput": "Coffee at cafe",
  "category": "expenses"
}

When photo or audio inputs are enabled, the corresponding files are attached as multipart fields:

• photoInput: the captured or selected image file
• audioInput: the recorded audio file

Other trigger types in FlowTrigger

FlowTrigger offers four trigger types to connect your Android phone with your automation workflows:

• Chat Triggers — a conversational interface that communicates with an LLM running inside your workflow. Free to use.
• Notification Triggers — automatically forward notifications from selected apps to your webhook endpoint. Premium feature.
• Location Triggers — trigger webhooks based on GPS location: zone entry/exit events and distance-based tracking. Premium feature.