[Feature request] bring back search bar in “installed” tab

[j-lakeman]

I'm pretty sure prior to the last major update it was possible to perform an offline search though installed apps. That seems not possible anymore, but was quite handy for quickly filtering the installed apps IMHO.

[machiav3lli]

It'll cause some headache concerning UX, but I'll see when its time comes

[opusforlife2]

How do you mean? Users already expect a search button in the Installed tab to do offline searches only, and online ones for the Latest and Explore tabs.

[j-lakeman]

I mean only searching installed apps in the installed tab

[opusforlife2]

My question was for machiavelli.

[machiav3lli]

@opusforlife2 all types of search are offline (the data is read on sync and stored locally). What I meant was adding a search bar specifically for installed apps…

[j-lakeman]

Or maybe through “sort and filter” as it's rather filtering than searching 🤔

[opusforlife2]

My bad. I was indeed referring to the tab-specific search as opposed to a repo-wide search, instead of offline and online.

[GfEW]

tab-specific search as opposed to a repo-wide search, instead of offline and online.

Auto-adapting the filtering/sorting of search results in each tab appropriately would make a lot of sense:

1. Latest: search in the list of latest apps (pre-sorted by recency?)
2. Explore: search in the list of "explorable" apps (i. e. everything)
3. Installed: search in the list of installed apps
4. Downloads: search in the list of downloads.

(Since the "Installed" main tab is divided in two sub-tabs, there are four tab views.)

[machiav3lli]

I would disagree on many of the assumptions, although I understand where this come from. Working on 1.0.0 the wish came from the community to have this one search page, it also make/made sense as you'd expect from a search page for all apps available in a store and not only the limited number in one page (this is mostly clear when considering the ambiguity of 1 & 2).

On the way working on 1.0.0, there was all type of different implementations for search and the current seemed the one to be most accepted by the community involved. That said, I'll reconsider things and survey the community when working on future minor/major releases, but most possibly this won't be a part of a point release.

[opusforlife2]

Maybe the search UI could look completely different from the FAB shown on the Explore and Latest tabs? Like a search bar with the inlaid greyed out text "Search installed apps".

[machiav3lli]

Actually filtering would be the more precise verb, as such search bar is just filtering an already limited group. Otherwise, I actually thought of adding fast filters to the search page UI (chips representing e.g. "all", "installed" and "new").