topic Re: Global Search on the phone in Z Series

Global Search on the phone

tiblam — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 17:39:31 GMT

Hi,

I wanted to make a search on all my phone : applications, SMS, and so on, and I wanted to have a widget or something like that to do that.

In fact : it's the same behaviour that you can find on the iphone (I believe the name is 'finder') : when you slice down : you have a proposal to search all over the iphone.

I wanted the same kind of things on the Xperia Z3 compact.

Thanks for your help.

Rgds,

Re: Global Search on the phone

_alexdon_ — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 17:43:57 GMT

For the apps,you can search directly through the app drawer. Not sure about others though.

There is also the option to search using file commander,that would be only through your files. Not working with SMS.

Re: Global Search on the phone

Jake-SonyXperia — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 23:56:55 GMT

Hi Tiblam,

Unfortunately the handset does not supply this natively, other than where Alexdon has stated. I suggest you try the Play Store to see if you can find a third party app that would allow such a function.

Re: Global Search on the phone

Uliwooly — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 00:24:23 GMT

Wouldn't such an app require root access?

Re: Global Search on the phone

tiblam — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 08:46:59 GMT

Hi,

in fact, it works with the google search bar, the last time I opened it, it asks me if I wanted to configure it for browsing all the phone, and it's wonderfull , because it works too with "ok google" ...

It gives me the result on the web, with a tab with the result on the phone ...

Thanks to all for your help.

Rgds,

Re: Global Search on the phone

_alexdon_ — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 08:51:25 GMT

Nice!