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Does Android come with a way to do Full Text Search?

I know is it not even possible to search contacts by the notes field, being Google the search company, but I would be disappointed if there is no API for that.

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The easiest way to provide Full Text Search is to use FTS3 in SQLite

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Lucene is another approach, faster than SQLite FTS

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SQLite Database With Android's Room Library

Android's Room library provides full-text search using SQLite.

See: Support full-text search

Firebase Firestore Database

Google's Firebase Firestore outlines a full-text search solution using a 3rd party service, Algolia. Other 3rd party services can be used like Elastic Search.

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