Feature request(s): start app in background

[jonm...@gmail.com]

Hi,

I'd like to see if an app is running, then start it in the background if it isn't. I can use the 'notifications posted' block to see if the app is running, though this seems a little like a workaround. Is there a better way to do this?

If the app isn't running, I want automate to start the app in the background so that its controls appear in the notification drawer (which they do by default). I can't see a way to open an app in the background, is there one? I can start the app with a broadcast but it comes to the foreground.

The purpose of this is to start the remote control software for my home music player so that the controls are ready when I get home.

Does anybody have a good way to do these?

Cheers

Jon

[Henrik "The Developer" Lindqvist]

Android doesn't support starting apps in the background, you'll have to use the App start block and an Interact block with action Home afterwards.

[Florian HubSpace]

To see if it is already running take a look at my flow:

https://llamalab.com/automate/community/flows/5001

[jonm...@gmail.com]

Neat. Where does 'matches' come from? Is it built into Automate?

[jonm...@gmail.com]

Thanks

[Florian HubSpace]

http://llamalab.com/automate/doc/function/matches.html