Jonas Haugesen
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Typing on a physical keyboard while the home screen is shown now opens the search page and inserts the typed character, so the launcher can be used without touching the screen. It works for any printable key, appends the characters in order even when the user types faster than the launcher can recompose, and the search bar can still be tapped to edit the query with the on-screen keyboard as usual. While the search is driven by the keyboard, the search bar's text field is left unfocused on purpose: a focused text field would make the system show the on-screen keyboard, which is not wanted when there is a physical keyboard. The handler therefore inserts and deletes characters itself, including backspace and enter (to launch the best match). The behaviour is controlled by a new "Search on typing" preference in Settings -> Search, which is enabled by default. Implementation notes: - The key events are intercepted in SharedLauncherActivity.dispatchKeyEvent, which is the only place that sees hardware key events while no view has focus. The scaffold installs the handler while it is shown. - Key events are not forwarded to the search bar's text field, so the characters are inserted into the search view model directly. - SearchBar keeps a TextFieldValue instead of a String so that the cursor moves to the end of the text when the value is changed from the outside. Without this the next typed character ended up in front of the text.
Kvaesitso
Kvaesitso is a search focused, free and open source launcher for Android.
Installation
Using an F-Droid client and MM20's repo
The preferred way of installation is using the F-Droid application. That way you will always be notified about updates. Kvaesitso is available in the official F-Droid repository, but all features depending on non-foss external APIs were removed. For feature-complete builds you can add MM20's repository. Just scan the code below or open the link on your phone:
The same version is also available in IzzyOnDroid's repository.
Manual installation
You can also download the latest release from the releases page and install it manually.
Report issues
If you notice any bugs or issues create a new issue in the issue tracker. Before you do, please search the existing issues for any similar issues. Please include any relevant information such as steps to reproduce, stack traces, logs, and device information. These information can be founder under Settings > Debug > Crash reporter and Settings > Debug > Export debug information.
Feature requests
If you have an idea for a new feature, just create a new issue. However, there is no guarantee that they will be implemented. If it's important for you, consider implementing it yourself, see contribute.
Contribute
Contributions are always welcome. If you want to fix any existing issues or implement smaller new features just create a new pull request. If you plan to implement any (bigger) new features, please create an issue first so we can discuss if and how this feature should be implemented.
If you want to help translating, see how to translate the project.
Links
- User guide: https://kvaesitso.mm20.de/docs/user-guide
- F-Droid-Repository: https://fdroid.mm20.de
Thanks to
- @EliotAku for the app icon
- All translators and code contributors
License
This software is free software licensed under the GNU General Public License 3.0.
Copyright (C) 2021–2026 MM2-0 and the Kvaesitso contributors
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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The plugin SDK modules (plugins/sdk and core/shared) are licensed under the Apache License 2.0.