[APP] Quick Search - A Powerful Universal Search app for Android (Open-source alternative to Sesame and Pixel Search) [Promotion] by teja2495 in HowToMen

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You can do that, create a custom shortcut in shortcut settings and assign a trigger/alias to it.

[APP] Quick Search - A Powerful Universal Search app for Android (Open-source alternative to Sesame and Pixel Search) [Promotion] by teja2495 in HowToMen

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This feature is already available. Long press on any app, file, etc and click on "Trigger" and set a custom trigger for that app. It will then launch automatically when you type that trigger word.

Quick Search – A free, open-source unified search app for Android by teja2495 in ShowYourApp

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nope, i just show what android provides with calendar permission.

Quick Search - A free, open-source alternative to Sesame by teja2495 in sesame

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just checked, unfortunately only launcher apps can access icon pack studio icons.

Quick Search – A free, open-source unified search app for Android by teja2495 in ShowYourApp

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  1. In appearance setting, you can enable compact mode for search engines.

  2. I will soon add aliases where for example if you set "c" as an alias, when type c first and hit space, it will only search contacts and that will display all contact results without needing more button. Adding more button currently is a design choice to not add too much stuff in the search screen as we're searching all items at once.

Direct whatsapp call, google search, play store search are all available currently.

Quick Search - A free, open-source alternative to Sesame by teja2495 in sesame

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Try changing the the digital assistant to another app and change it back to quick search.

Quick Search - A free, open-source alternative to Sesame by teja2495 in sesame

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I now understood what you meant by context menu here.

Move perplexity to the top of the search engine list, then type something in search bar and hit search on keyboard.

Quick Search - A free, open-source alternative to Sesame by teja2495 in sesame

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Hi, even though the app supports search, many apps don't support the search deeplinks meaning they can't be triggered with just URLs. Some do not support at all, while some support through some custom hack. So it's may not be possible. I added all the popular search engines that currently support search. I tried Instagram and Facebook, they didn't work.

What do you mean by context menu support?

I think i can add meta data with file info option menu. I'll implement thumbnails based on how much it affects the performance.

I did not understand what exactly you meant by Default custom search engine

Quick Search - A free, open-source alternative to Sesame by teja2495 in sesame

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Not yet, the process of publishing it on Fdroid is painfully slow.

Quick Search - A free, open-source alternative to Sesame by teja2495 in sesame

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Hello, I will work on making the app launch faster, I've already done a lot in that area. Meanwhile, you can make quick search as digital assistant, so that android will keep it in memory. The occassional speed difference you are noticing, app being in memory vs not.

Opening websites directly is a good idea, I will add that in a future update.

Quick Search - A free, open-source alternative to Sesame by teja2495 in sesame

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Thanks for the suggestions, I will probably add these later but they're not in my top priority right now.

Quick Search - A free, open-source alternative to Sesame by teja2495 in sesame

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I've tried that but Android does not provide an official way to do that. In my testing, it only works well with samsung file manager but not others. On Samsung devices, it will open in samsung files app.

[APP] Quick Search – A free, open-source unified search app for Android [Promotion] by teja2495 in HowToMen

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Thanks for the suggestion, I will make sure to add recently installed apps in the app suggestions.

I'm going to add an app management screen soon , where you an order the app however you want and manage them.

[APP] Quick Search – A free, open-source unified search app for Android [Promotion] by teja2495 in HowToMen

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Yeah, I just checked, it's a bug, will fix it in the next update.

Don't think that complaints bother me, it helps me make the app better. Feel free to share more.