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Open website in background without displaying with App Inventor

I'm going to write my first Android app. For this I'd like to use App Inventor as it seems the easiest way to get started.

In this app i have several buttons and every button should open a specific predefined HTTP address in the background and nothing else.

e.g.:

Button pressed → open http://bla.com/myinput in background → exit

Is this possible?

Solution

  • Use a webviewer component and set its visiblility to false. Then together with the Webviewer.GoToUrl block open the webpage in the background. Later if you want to display one of the webpages, just set the visibility of the webviewer to true.

    Btw. it helps to do the tutorials to learn the basics of App Inventor, see also the Top 5 Tips: How to learn App Inventor.