EasyLauncher

Inspiration

Not having to waste time remembering the name of the application I want to use.

What it does

Traditionally application launchers have allowed users to search for the names of the apps and start them quickly. But what if you don't remember the name of the app. With the number of apps coming every day it is getting increasingly difficult to efficiently find apps that you need. What if you could search what you need the app for and get results for apps having those features. This is exactly what Easy Launcher does.

How I built it

I built a NodeJS server which scrapes the Google Play Store for the app description and extracts the keywords from it. The Android app then gets the keywords for the apps that are installed on the phone, enabling search with those keywords to get a list of apps.

Challenges I ran into

Finding the keywords from the app description

What's next for EasyLauncher

The app needs some optimization which wasn't easy to do in this limited amount of time. Hopefully I'll be able to do that after the Hackathon and launch it on the Play Store

Built With

• android
• node.js