Ability to launch more than one app on connect

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This feature would be really interesting for car driving i.e. launching both 
navigation and radio app.

Best regards.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by patrice....@gmail.com on 15 Jan 2014 at 2:37

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This certainly can be done but it is not as simple as it sounds.  It requires a 
database tear up.  It will also need to have some sort of timed launch so the 
apps all load correctly.  That timing may need to be different for different 
devices.  If you want to launch large apps and you have less than 2GB of RAM 
you will need several seconds between launching apps to let the RAM settle out. 
 I can already hear complaints from this.  It would be helpful to better 
understand the use cases.

The example use case of radio and navigation does not make much sense to me.  
Normally you use navigation to navigate somewhere, right?  It seems that would 
would have had to set up that somewhere and you would just manually launch that 
app then.  I suppose you might want radio and a speedometer app?  I might make 
this as a plugin instead of baking it into this app.  The plugin could be a 
batch launcher.  Not sure.  This needs more thought.

Original comment by JimR...@gmail.com on 22 Feb 2014 at 1:52

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Using navigon or another gps app together with an additional speedcamera 
warning app (running in the background) would be a typical scenario. Another 
scenario would be that you want to start a bluetoothstream with music (e.g. 
radio app or mediaplayer app) and also use a navigation app that interrupts the 
music stream with gps notifications. Of course we are talking here about a nice 
to have feature. You could always start both apps manually but this would not 
be as comfortable as an automated plugin.

Original comment by em...@patrickwirz.de on 23 Feb 2014 at 10:14