Profile to test whether *any* app has been opened.

[Soudane GMTA]

I know how to create a context which detects whether one or more specified apps have been opened. However, I'd like to write a context which detects whether any app has been opened.

I guess I could select each and every app when initializing the context, but then it will become outdated if I happen to download any new apps. I'm looking for a way to detect the opening of any app, without my having to specify a list of apps initially.

Is this possible in Tasker?

Thank you in advance.

[Soudane GMTA]

PS: Unless I'm mistaken, the "New Window" event could detect this. However, the problem is that it also seems to detect things like toast popups and possibly other windows that are opened in non-app-launching scenarios. I'm looking for a way to detect *only* the launching of an app (any app), and not the displaying of any other kinds of windows.

[Robert Ryan]

The App Changed event context is probably what you are looking for. Example:

    Profile: Track App

    Settings: Restore: no

     Event: App Changed [ Output Variables:* Package:* ]

    

    Enter Task: Anon

    

    A1: Variable Set [

         Name: %AppName

         To: %app_name

         Max Rounding Digits: 3 ]

    

    

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[Soudane GMTA]

Thank you very much. I mistakenly thought that "App Changed" meant that the state of an app has changed, but now I realize that it means that the current foreground app has changed to another app ... which is exactly what I want.