Quickdroid - Quickly search, find and launch applications, contacts, bookmarks, artists, albums and songs on your Android phone. Quickdroid is just like Quicksilver for Mac OS X, Launchy for Microsoft Windows or the upcoming Android Search. It also includes a launcher for the most recently used search results.
Quickdroid has a plugin interface which enables you to easily extend it by other search categories.
Quickdroid does not run all the time. It only runs when you use it and also for a few seconds after un-/installing apps to sync the app index. For all other search categories Quickdroid uses the Content Providers that are already available on your phone. That saves a lot of battery power. The quick launch symbol is only a PendingIntent. So this optional feature does not keep Quickdroid around all the time. However, Android tries to always keep around your 4 to 10 most recently used apps (and their respective Linux processes) to speed up the startup times of these apps. This apps are just sitting in the background until they are restarted, garbage collected or replaced by other most recently used apps. Such apps do not run all the time nor do they actively consume CPU time or battery power. Of course some task managers and the Linux ps command still show up this apps. But this behaviour is an Android feature, not a bug. The lifecycles of the activities and services that make up some Android app are completely decoupled from the lifecycle of the Linux process that hosts the app
What's New in This Release:
· Launch Quickdroid even faster by swiping up from the navigation bar
What's New in 4.3.2:
· Optionally search for contacts in all groups: Settings -> Contacts -> Contact groups
· Long-press on items to create home screen shortcuts
· Bugfixes
What's New in 4.2.1:
· Preference option to remove Quickdroid from the back stack
· Preference option to exit Quickdroid by pressing the back key once even if the soft keyboard is visible
What's New in 4.1:
· Android 4.x user interface support
What's New in 4.0.2:
· Autostart functionality fix for Android 4
What's New in 4.0.1:
· Learning aptitude: Give the user's favorite items a high ranking within the search results
· Search widget support
· Bugfixes
What's New in 3.0.2:
· Fixed contacts search.
What's New in 3.0:
· Improved search result ranking.
· Pressing 'Go' on the soft keyboard, the trackball or the 'Enter' key now launches the first item of the current list.
· Long-pressing the search key launches Quickdroid.
· some fixes for Android 2.3 and 3.0.
What's New in 2.9.7:
· Improved search result ranking
What's New in 2.9.6:
· Pressing 'Go' on the soft keyboard, the trackball or the 'Enter' key now launches the first item of the current list.
· Long-pressing the search key launches Quickdroid
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Supported operating systems:
Google Android 1.6, Google Android 10.x, Google Android 2.0, Google Android 2.1, Google Android 2.2, Google Android 2.3, Google Android 3.0, Google Android 3.1, Google Android 3.2, Google Android 4.0, Google Android 4.1, Google Android 4.2, Google Android 4.3, Google Android 4.4, Google Android 5.x, Google Android 6.x, Google Android 7.x, Google Android 8.x, Google Android 9.x
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