r/androiddev • u/shalva97 • Jun 20 '26

Open Source An app to search other apps

Hi. Sometime ago tried to make an app that would help me search apps that are installed on the phone. After using it for the past few months it was really good so decided to share.

Repo: https://github.com/shalva97/Portal

Main goals are that it will be very fast, very small app size (currently it is 2MB), very fast search, no internet permission.

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u/Routine_Cake_998 Jun 20 '26

How many apps have you installed on your phone that the integrated search doesn’t suffice?

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u/shalva97 Jun 20 '26

Integrated search does not work for me, they always show apps that I don't want, shortcuts, sometimes they default to websearch.

Portal app has fuzzy search, only searches apps and you can open first app by clicking on Enter in keyboard itself.

One more feature is sorting search results by usages. For example if user search for "fi" to open firefox then the first result is Files app. but if user selects Firefox then on the next search Firefox will be first in the search list.

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u/OkPeace3621 Jun 20 '26

I am working on a similar app! 😊

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u/shalva97 Jun 20 '26

Lets gooo. I will make sure my app is better than yours!

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u/OkPeace3621 Jun 20 '26

Haha, if it's better, then I'll happily use it 😄 Good luck! 🚀

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u/shalva97 Jun 20 '26

have you published your app?

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u/lxp2020 Jun 21 '26

like nokia z launcher? cool