Make Kagi Android app native like google app

Atahan

I love the Kagi app because now it takes me 5 seconds shorter to start a search (compared to terrible browser "app" thing). But it still takes a solid 1-2 seconds between click the icon, seeing the dog, and seeing the search bar. While google search is up instantly. I'm guessing google achieves this by making the app run in the background permanently, which is a bad thing, but I think there should be an option in the Kagi app setting to allow that. I use search so often that I'm happy to accept the battery/ram hit to get back that 1-2 seconds at the startup.

User sad at it takes longer to open kagi search compared to google search app on android.
User look at their settings, there is a big button that says "make Kagi open faster (but it will impact performance or whatever"
User clicks on it, it probably takes you to android settings to give access to kagi or whatever
Kagi now opens instantly every time

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Hey there Atahan,

It's not that the google app is running in the background forever, its just that the google app is a native experience whereas the Kagi app currently has to load a webview and such before showing you the search bar.

We do have plans to make our app native as well, just like the google app so you can instantly start searching without waiting.
I can't give a timeline on that currently but I just wanted to note that it is planned 🙂

Thibaultmol

This has improved now.
With the new update, the actual screen you type your search into is a native experience. once you press the enter button/submit, you go to the kagi.com search results webpage.

We recommend installing the widget on your homescreen to access this native experience even quicker

So it's not fully native yet, but getting there

aitorpazos

Having a button in the widget to ask the kagi assistant directly would be amazing.
It would also be great to be able to make it an Android system digital assistant.

Thibaultmol

@aitorpazos see: https://kagifeedback.org/d/5581-offer-kagi-on-android-as-a-digital-assistant-app

@Atahan snappyness of the app will once again improve a lot with the upcoming app update (in the coming days). Technically the results page is still a webview but It's gotten pretty good, let us know if you think it's good enough to close this or if you want this feedback to also include the results page to be native