Going to another app after starting a song in Spotify

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Dear Community,

I want to create a process where my web browser (or any other app but to keep it simple let’s use web browser for now) opens after I started a song in Spotify from my app.

I managed two scenarios.

a) When I use “ActivityStarter1” with Action “android.intent.action.MAIN” I could manage to start the web browser using a timer and a second ActivityStarter. BUT in this case the song does not play. Spotify just opens and after 3 sec(duration of timer) the web browser opens.

b) When I use “ActivityStarter1” with Action “android.intent.action.VIEW” I could manage to start playing the song in Spotify. BUT in this case I got “stucked” in Spotify and the web browser does not open anymore.

So since both targets (starting a song in Spotify & going afterwards to web browser) where achieved separately from each other I was now wondering if there is any method to combine them.

Thanks for your help and support.

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Yes, after starting another app, your own app is not active anymore. As possible solution before starting Spotify you could try my alarmmanager extension to autostart your app after a few seconds again, more info see here App Inventor Extensions: Alarm Manager | Pura Vida Apps
I currently do not know, if the song keeps playing though... something to be tested...

Taifun