Is there a way to type a search and the words come out as buttons? And you can use the buttons to make a new search, but type in a new addition.
I am always getting frustrated with the slowness of the renewal of the Google search.
Usually I need to write the whole sentence again to the search bar. And perhaps this happens a third or even a fourth time…
Aaaaaarrrrrgggghhh…
So, could there be buttons that would remember the words you have just used earlier?
Please provide a more detailed explanation of what you are trying to achieve,
what you have done so far, what works, what doesn’t work…
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if relevant, your data or lists,
screenshots of the Designer screen or app in action,
so we can see what you are trying to do…
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This can be done with a list of words stored in Tinydb under a single tag, and one of the Activity Starter samples in its help, for search engine invocation. (I haven’t looked at it lately, but it should still be there.)
You would also need to use a ListPicker or ListView to offer the list up for selection,
and pre-populate the List Picker two standard entries ( (Search Now) and (New Word) ) and the words in the stored list.
You would also need a ListView to accumulate the chosen search terms in their selection (or entry) order. (you could use a Label instead.)
As each word is selected or entered, add it to the end of the Label.
I think you would quickly run out of buttons - why not add each search word/term to a list and repeat the search by simply clicking it’s list entry? On exit of the App, you could save the List in TinyDb for re-use next time too.
All of these answers were a great read, so thank you for them.
I’m bubbling with ideas, but need time to use them then.
I’ll look at it later.
I’m heading to work quite soon.
And these look like new choices for my other app.
It’s got 9 buttons with links and the first 3 worked fine with the ActivityStarter and .VIEW.
Why wouldn’t it work with 4th and so on? Ä
Then I got to think about a list of links, but I don’t know if that would work…
The listpicker sounds like better choice.
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