Offer to lookup a barcode in Android Search suggestions

[herau]

Do you mean you can suggest barcodes from the list of barcodes that match the text entered by the user ?

[teolemon]

We could do that on barcodes, brands, categories, ingredients, any facet of a product. Not sure how it would impact performance. But it should would bring people back to the app.

[herau]

@teolemon seems great. however how you would display this kind of Search ?

• Only one input text in user can search with barcode / brands / categories ?
• Maybe a search input with a dropdown in which the user select the facet (barcodes, brands, categories)

related to #66 ?

[teolemon]

This seems like a complex issue I remember a search mechanism pre-app indexing: https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/search/adding-custom-suggestions.html

And now there's app indexing to bring people from Google Search results right into the app. https://developer.android.com/training/app-indexing/index.html https://developer.android.com/training/app-links/index.html

[herau]

i see, so link also with #148

another nice feature is the Google assistant, which really make sense i think https://developer.android.com/training/articles/assistant.html