SearchLauncher
Search apps, contacts and the web, and open results in an ad-free browser
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Description
SearchLauncher replaces browsing through your phone with fast, keyboard-centric search. Your home screen opens with a keyboard, and one bar finds everything: what is on your phone, and what is on the web.
Features:
* Search apps, app shortcuts, contacts, settings, snippets, and custom actions
* Open web results in the built-in browser, which blocks ads and trackers by default
* Swipe the search bar sideways to switch browser tabs, or up to see them all as live previews
* Reach your tabs straight from the home screen, without opening the browser first
* Save bookmarks under a title you choose, and find visited pages back from the search bar
* Use it as your default launcher or as a home screen widget
* Launch web searches through configurable shortcuts
* Keep frequently used apps close with favorites and usage-aware history
* Store and copy text snippets from the search UI
* Use calculator queries, phone numbers, emails, URLs, and smart actions
* Customize wallpapers, widgets, colors, and dark mode
Privacy notes:
* Web shortcuts and search suggestions are optional
* They may contact third-party search providers when enabled
* The browser's blocklist is downloaded from the StevenBlack hosts project
* Crash reporting is opt-in only
What’s new (0.0.14)
Verifiable builds, continued.
- The APK no longer carries the list of dependencies that Android's build tools sign into it for Google Play's benefit. It told you nothing, and F-Droid rejects APKs that carry one.
- Together with the previous release, this means anyone can rebuild this source and get exactly the APK that is published, so F-Droid can verify it and ship it under our own signature.
- Nothing in the app itself has changed.
Anti-features
Properties of this app that are worth knowing about before installing.
- NonFreeNet
- Tracking
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Permissions
What the app asks the system for. Android only grants sensitive access after you confirm it.
- Installed appsSee which apps are installed.
- PACKAGE_USAGE_STATS
- REQUEST_DELETE_PACKAGES
- Internet accessSend and receive data over the internet.
- System settingsChange system settings.
- Read contactsAccess the address book.
- MicrophoneRecord audio.
- EXPAND_STATUS_BAR
Show 5 more permissions
- Read storageRead files on the device storage.
- PhotosRead images from the media library.
- alarm.permission.SET_ALARM
- app.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION
- REORDER_TASKS
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