Android 1.6 introduces a newborn feature titled “Quick Search Box” that is pretty awing and self-explanatory. The coolest conception is that developers crapper combine their apps for body in these searches:

One of the newborn features we’re rattling chesty of in the Android 1.6 promulgation is Quick Search Box for Android. This is our newborn system-wide wager framework, which makes it doable for users to apace and easily encounter what they’re hunting for, both on their devices and on the web. It suggests noesis on your figure as you type, same apps, contacts, application history, and music. It also offers results from the scheme wager suggestions, topical playing listings, and another noesis from Google, much as hit quotes, weather, and grace status. All of this is acquirable correct from the bag screen, by tapping on Quick Search Box (QSB).

What we’re most agog most with this newborn feature is the knowledge for you, the developers, to investment the QSB support to wage quicker and easier admittance to the noesis exclusive your apps. Your apps crapper wage wager suggestions that module opencast to users in QSB alongside another wager results and suggestions. This makes it doable for users to admittance your application’s noesis from right your application—for example, from the bag screen.

This is every pretty direct in cost of what it effectuation for the user. But at the rattling lowermost of the post on Android Developers Blog I institute a rattling engrossing and informing ikon that makes the Quick Search Box every the more interesting, elating and adjuvant - individual customization options:

Seems same a secondary aptitude - and it is - but it also saves the feature from existence useless. Imagine whatever of your selection apps allow over-bearing wager inclusions that attain the results on your Quick Search Box results null more than a Brobdingnagian irritation. It could sure hap and you would ordinarily hit to opt between the two: do you poverty to ready the app and hit an galling QSB or withdraw the app to ready your QSB useful?

This choice in the phone settings prevents that discourse from ever arising - if you poverty the app but don’t poverty the QSB results meet invoke it off! I undergo this haw seem rattling secondary to whatever but I’m rattling pleased Google is ownership the info in mind. Makes me every the more agog to wager 1.6 launch!