Thank you TIMA12
Not the same situation:
- Playing music from an AppInventor music app
- Playing a timed sound from a seperate AppInventor app
Result: no interruption
My situation:
- Playing music from default android system music player
- Playing a timed short sound from my app
Result: auto-pause default android music player
AGAIN: TaiFun had it right when he stated:
This is not something you can configure from within your app but from the music player app...
You could try several music player apps and probably you can find a player, which does not pause...
If you program a music player in App Inventor there is the event OtherPlayerStarted, which can be used to pause the music or not
This problem of mine is an OS (operating system) problem . The default player chose to use the option of OtherPlayerStarted. The Android OS has this option built in. There are multiple old articals on Inet discussing this and:
- Some claim there is a setting somewhere to override this (no luck finding it on mine)
- A few claim there once was an app to change the system setting but the app has disappeared long ago
As I said and fully agree with TaiFun, this is an operating system problem. I would love to know how to override it but do not know how or IF
Thank You ALL