I'd like to launch apps by performing a quick search for them with a widget.
The Google Search widget is decent, but the Phone search category used for searching apps by name isn't the default; I have to manually change category each time. I'm looking for something more geared toward launching apps specifically.
I am also searching something like this. Did you find anything ?
I am also searching for this.
Fast search is ok, but it can't search on emails (cloudmagic) and we have to switch between categories
try evie launcher
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Hello everyone! I am hoping I can either get some ideas on what I could install, or maybe inspire someone to develop an app
I am a frequent traveler and I started out in my job always bringing my phone, mp3 player and gps. I started consolidating and with my old Blackberry and ditched my mp3 player. When I got my Motorola Droid I was excited to ditch my gps as well!
The problem is I am so used to using my Tomtom. I would click navigate, find a destination either by entering in the address, or going to a point of interest and either searching for it specifically (like target) or looking at a list (like food).
With Google Navigation is there doesn't appear to be a defined "front end". I can use a massive amount of apps to get me there, like Yelp, YP, Where, Google Places, or just a Google Maps search it self.
What I would like to see is a front end application that allowed me to search points of interests either in my current location or a defined location. Let me save these as favorites, show me a history of where I have been and let me search for a POI along my current defined route (ie, finding food along my route between the airport and hotel).
There is a free app on the market called App Launcher and while it has some great ideas, it isn't it. Am I missing something obvious? What does everyone else do?
I use telenav for this. I get it free from Sprint. Otherwise there is a fee for it.
I prefer it better than google maps for this reason. It also makes it easier to control the route I wish to take to get there.
[This doesn't seem to be a phone specific issue so I thought I'd post it here in General, hope that's ok.]
The behavior of typing something in the Google Now bar and having it return installed Apps stopped working for me a couple days ago. Anyone else?
For anyone who's not familiar with this behavior, it's a really nice feature of the main Google Now widget:
Punching in part of an app name in the Google Now bar pulls up hits including installed apps.
It's very convenient to for example turn on your phone, type in "Scan", and get as the top hit the Genius Scan app for example (you might only remember the "Scan" part of the name of the app).
Or type in "Face" and the Facebook app shows up. (Partials work.)
It's very similar to the iOS left-swipe search, the Windows 7 Start button, and OSX Spotlight.
Hunting and pecking through the app list is for chumps.
A friend noticed that if you type in "Facebook app" or "Fac app" and then press enter you DO get an app result in Google Now card style with "Open app" as a button. If this is an intended change I believe it's for the worse and is less useful than the iOS left-swipe search, the Windows 7 Start Button, and OSX spotlight (because with any of these you can just start typing and once you've gotten far enough into the word, results will start popping up -- this was how the Google Search widget used to work a couple days ago.)
After a Google+ update push this morning, no-chump app launching is now fixed.
Just noticed that I have the same issue...
No apps show in result (even with installed apps ticked )
I have searched this forum and the web, still surprised about the poor integration of multiple devices in Google Play.
Can anybody tell me if there is any easy and fast way to transfer most of your app's to a new device?
I am amazed the lack of usability in this matter? Why is there not a column based page with all your registered devises from left to right and all the app's downwards, then a box to "tick" on each device to install or delete multiple app's in one go??? How hard can it be???
I know you can use Titanium but you need to be rooted and still go by each app individual or take all in one go, this do not make any sense since a newer device might not need all the app's.
On Google Play I can see all my app's and then install them one by one with a confirmation box for every one? long and boring task.
A column based set-up where you choose which app's to be installed on what device you have registered seems like a "no-brainer" to me but I have not been able to find anything that resembles that??
Does it exist and am I a knob or is this a major oversight by Google???
All suggestions are welcome.
Robert
The key here is you need to tell Google to restore your phone once you install an OS. If you did this, the Play Store automatically downloads all your previously installed apps.
Also, in Titanium you have the checkboxes on the side as you're asking for, you just deselect the checkboxes besides the red apps pretty much...
Was just looking around to disable apps I don't use like the Facebook ones, bumped into this one called "Error".
Any body got a clue what this is?
I tried searching on Google and found one link with the same question I have but no answers for what it might be.
Has everyone tried any of the Quick Apps? I read some review saying that there are around 1,700 such quick apps available, but there's no easy way to find out what they're & in what categories.
I know the Quick Apps are simply websites packaged in mobile HTML5 format. Though we can actually access them directly from the URLs, what those benefits are when we access them thru Quick Apps then, eg. KFC, Pizza Hut or even Badoo Quick Apps.
The quick apps are just another name for PWA.
You can find ones by using Petal search now. (updated app)
If you find an app has a blue lightening bolt logo on it then it's a quick app.