Connecting to 3rd Party apps

Developer Experience
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Is there a way in the Xibo CMS to create an interactive button that launches a 3rd party app? The app would take over the screen and then when they are done, would close back to the Xibo Playlist / layout.

We want to integrate a selfie pic app into the touchscreen.

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Android or Windows?
You can use commands with interactive layouts.

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Thanks, Vishal.

We want to use Windows.

Is there a best place in the manual for us to look at how to do it?
Is it the API section?

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You could check:
https://xibo.org.uk/manual/en/layouts_interactive_actions.html

I am using webhooks which triggers the layout that is stored on the player via interactive layout. When the layout is triggered, it shows a flashing layout with a warning message in it. You could do something like trigger the app via the command module.

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Thanks, Vishal.
Very helpful. We are going to try the command mod widget.

Appreciate it.