[MonoTouch] In-app search

[Miguel de Icaza]

Did you consider using to Lucene.Net?  there is a port that works with mono

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On Mar 23, 2012, at 4:08 PM, "jhandel at gmail.com" <jhandel at gmail.com> wrote:

> This was my final answer.. I did a custom build of Sqlite3 with FTS4 enabled.. Its not as good as running a mini Lucene but it only took 4 hours to get all the moving parts working in the right direction instead of the who knows how long to get LuceneKit running in an iPhone and then wrapped.
> 
> Josh
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> From: Göran Halvarsson [goranhalvarsson at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 12:59 PM
> To: Josh Handel
> Cc: monotouch at lists.ximian.com
> Subject: Re: [MonoTouch] In-app search
> 
> Hi
> 
> Why not use SQL Lite?
> Store content in DB...
> 
> /Göran
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> 
> On 22 March 2012 15:50, Josh Handel <jhandel at ourtreehouse.org> wrote:
>> Howdy all,
>> Before I go reinvent the wheel I figured I would ask.. We have an app that will host several hundred pages of content (local).. And our client would like to make the content searchable.. What kind of in-app search strategies have you guys tried to employ in the passed?
>> 
>> I'm debating wrapping a C version of Lucene for MonoTouch but that seems like ALOT of work.. anyone have any toolkits or tricks they have used in the passed?  I was also thinking about perhaps integrating with Spotlight but I don't know how that would work from inside the app.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Josh
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