I listen to Spotify alot when I am driving, I have a bluetooth handsfree kit with plays the music through my car stereo. I want to reduce the time it takes to get music playing. Currently my flow is:
- Get in car
- Get out phone
- Swipe to unlock
- Find spotify app
- Open app
- Click play
- Make sure screen off, to prevent miss taps
- Put phone in phone holder
- Drive, listen, enjoy.
This kinda pisses me off it takes a while, especially if I stop my car briefly and turn the ignition off and then want to get going again. Anyway I digress... so I thought I could simplify this. If I stuck an NFC sticker to my phone cradle that opens my spotify now-playing I would be like this:
- Get in car
- Put phone in cradle
- Click play
- Drive, listen, enjoy.
- Drive, listen, enjoy
I bought a strip of NFC stickers from eBay, had a little play around trying different intent URIs that I thought might work which are kind of okay... i.e. spotify:// opens the app, which is a good start... I tried some other combinations but didnt get straight to the now-playing activity which would be so sweet