owncloud / owncloud/ios-app

CoreSpotlight file search implementation

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feature: file searching p4-low
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Swift
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Description

As an user I want to search a document via iOS global search field Spotlight.
If the user enter a search string which is equal to a file in ownCloud app, the file will presented in the search result. This deep links directly to the file in the ownCloud App.

This can be done with CoreSpotlight:
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/corespotlight

The user needs an option to enable, disable file indexing for every Bookmarkwhich was added in ownCloud App for privacy reasons.

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Research direction

Start with Apple's CoreSpotlight documentation and inspect the app's existing bookmark and deep-link flows. The work is done when files can be indexed for Spotlight, matching results open the file in ownCloud, and each bookmark has a privacy option to enable or disable indexing.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
ios, swift
Domain
mobile-dev, search
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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