How do you launch an app, close it and then come back to mine?

[MarcoTR]

Hello everyone,
I'd like to run my app in kiosk mode and have a button in my app with which launching an other app (let's call it app#2) not written by me. I would like to let run the app#2 for some specified time and then close it and come back to mine. Is it possible? By searching for an answer I have learnt to start an other app using TaifunPM1 extension, so I can start the app#2 now but no idea how I can close it and come back to mine.
Thanks a lot

[Taifun]

@MarcoTR

how I can close it and come back to mine.

You could try to call this extension from the background

• Force Stop - Kill/Close Other Apps Extension by Shreya (unknown price)

(found in the extensions directory App Inventor Extensions | Pura Vida Apps)

Open Source • Background Tasks: Itoo

Itoo 4 [image] [BuildWithLove] [Frame 1] The newer version of Itoo now has updated ItooX framework which runs more reliably across all platforms, devices and Android versions. Services Itoo supports two types of services. Foreground keeps the service alive throughout the session without interruptions. a permanent notification will be displayed throughout the session from Oreo. Background Task unlike the foreground task, it is executed on a different process. vulnerable to une…

Taifun

[MarcoTR]

But the app is for killing background running app, while I need to kill a foreground app from a background app... do you thinnk it can work also in this way?

[Taifun]

I do not know, you have to try it...
Taifun

[TIMAI2]

Using the Activity Starter Component ?

[jean-marc_Latour]

Did you tried this extention for killing foreground app ? does it works ?