SearchBar Ex - Search Widget

devhomc

Contains adsIn-app purchases

About this app

Many types of search engines in one place! Search anytime by using search widget, home button gesture, and notification launcher. Highly customizable settings for creating your original search bar.

SearchBar Ex can search using Google, Google Images, Yahoo!, Bing, Wikipedia, Amazon, DuckDuckGo, and also in other apps like YouTube, Google Maps, Evernote, Music and Contact apps.

It can be used in many ways, not only as a search app, but as an app launcher or bookmark launcher.

Features
• Add and edit search engines
• Swipe up (or long press) the home button to launch the SearchBar
• Simple Search Widget
• Notification Launcher
• Keyword suggestions
• App / Shortcut / Bookmark launcher
• Add copy / paste / cut / share actions
• Type a command to switch between search engines
• Voice search
• Launch, manage, or uninstall apps directly from suggestions
• Chrome Custom Tabs
• Various color themes for the Search Widget
• Light, Dark and Black themes for the SearchBar
• Backup & Restore
• Material Design

Permissions
• INTERNET / ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE - Required to load keyword suggestions and ads on the settings screen
• WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE - Required for the Backup & Restore function
• BILLING - Required to upgrade to premium
• RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED - Required to start Notification Launcher after reboot
• INSTALL_SHORTCUT - Required to create app shortcut on the home screen

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Ratings and reviews

FINALLY, a viable replacement for the ages old OpenSearch app. I've been carrying that one from device to device since it's no longer on the play store. SearchBarEX has more options and does everything I need and more. Unfortunately, this app has a significant bug. I haven't been able to figure out why, but certain random words and phrases seem to incorrectly trigger the keyword function. It erases what I've typed and switches to a different search engine.

This is an interesting search bar that has a lot of utility but steep learning curve. There's a lot of settings I don't quite understand. You can customize long pressing and so on but I don't know what they want me to press. You don't really know what the action features are, the startup features... But the basic search bar works well and works with most themes.

Great functionality! ...super convenient to go to one place on my phone to search so many apps, fav. sites, etc. BTW, I'm using an old phone w/ Android 7. One suggestion...a help section that covers the options in the Custom Search creation dialog. ie, examples of commands that can be utilized, etc.

What's new

Updated SDK version.