For a search company I can’t believe how terrible the Android app search is. I can’t even search “bank” for my banking apps, and there doesn’t really seem to be any metadata except for the title that goes into the search. Which is absolutely ridiculous given how many companies name their apps something cReAtIvE like “home” or “Resideo” or “Smart Hq.” I just want to search GE for the damn GE app. Or “thermostat” for Resideo. Surely there’s something beyond surface level here because obviously this is an extensively solved problem. How is there not metadata or description searching at minimum? My only guess is fear of abuse but Google has definitely dealt with that for their entire existence and up until recently, managed to handle it fine.
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I’m not sure if that helps you, but there are plenty of search focused launchers for android that let you add keywords as tags to apps as well like KISS Launcher and Kvaesitso
+1 for KISS You can even use Tags.
KISS on minimal mode is the GOAT
Kvaesitso search is pretty bad. It’s unable to find the F-droid app when searching “fdroid”.
Cannot confirm. If I type in anything between “fdr” and “fdroid” it brings up F-droid for me.
I’d love to have tags on apps. So many apps have a simple minimalistic name on the app, which is impossible to remember. I make do by renaming the app with terms I might search by.
ex. “Authenticator Microsoft”, or “Vancollect City Garbage Trash Recycling”
I’d just go with 2fa, but I guess if you wanna type out city garbage trash recycling for Microsoft auth go ahead
kiss launcher has tags
My favorite is when you type part of a word and it doesn’t even show all the matching apps, just a few at random
Or then you type the next letter of the word and the result you want goes away, but only after you’re milliseconds from tapping it.
