The Android app currently has 7 (!) different part or sub-apps:
- Search
- Assistant
- Small Web
- News (which just opens the News website, not the News app if it’s installed()
- Translate
- Universal Summarizer
- FastGPT
There is no consistent way of switching between the parts. Usually there’s a “burger” menu that opens “Control Center” with all sub-app entries, but in Translate and Summarizer it’s a “four squares” button which opens just the sub-app list, which in Translate lacks “News”.
The launcher app icon opens whatever part was last used (if the OS hasn’t closed the app since then). The widget opens Search, but without the burger menu, there’s only a “The Assistant” button (everywhere else it’s just “Assistant”). When going back to the home screen and tapping the Kagi icon, I’m back at this reduced version of Search with no way to switch to Translate, for example.
The launcher icon also has five shortcuts: “E-Mail Kagi CEO” (really?), “Assistant”, “Translate”, “Universal Summarizer”, and “Privacy Pass”.
This is rather inconsistent and a bit messy. The only way to predictably reach what I guess still is the main product, Search, is through the widget.
Wouldn’t it be better if the Kagi app installed separate icons (I think they’re often called “launcher activities”) that reliably and consistently open just one part of the app?
(While researching this I saw that apart from the Summarizer part of the Kagi app, there is also a separate "Kagi Summarize" app. It gets even more confusing…)
Ah, there's another box. This feature will make it easier to reach the part of the app one actually wants to use.
