Chris M.
- Forum posts: 23
Apr 11, 2014, 8:44:24 PM via Website
Apr 11, 2014 8:44:24 PM via Website
This post has been reposted here from 'Android OS forums' on advice from one John Farrell...
Searching inside Android seems rather rudimentary. I want to be able to find any file on mine. Not just music and apps and stuff, but, say, a .xml file that turns out to be inside /system/etc. Come to that, a search facility that could find and take me to a word/number inside that file, too.
A pop-up that will allow a search even inside such limited apps as ES File Explorer Editor that have no built-in search function. It need not maintain an index, even a brute-force search would do for most such search jobs. Maybe a wrapper (that opens an input box under the keyboard?) around the Linux 'find' command?
Is there anything that will do all/most of this, please?
Searching inside Android seems rather rudimentary. I want to be able to find any file on mine. Not just music and apps and stuff, but, say, a .xml file that turns out to be inside /system/etc. Come to that, a search facility that could find and take me to a word/number inside that file, too.
A pop-up that will allow a search even inside such limited apps as ES File Explorer Editor that have no built-in search function. It need not maintain an index, even a brute-force search would do for most such search jobs. Maybe a wrapper (that opens an input box under the keyboard?) around the Linux 'find' command?
Is there anything that will do all/most of this, please?
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