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So I'm looking to use a search engine other than Google as the default engine in the QuickSearchBox app (i.e. the default app opened by the search button). It is highly frustrating, but perhaps not surprising, that Google has not made it a simple matter of changing a preference somewhere. Other search engines can be used just fine (although not added from within the app itself), but the default engine cannot be changed except by altering code.

I've looked around in the code [0] but being unfamiliar with Android's internals, I don't really understand everything that's going on.

I am aware that the OpenSearch [1] app could be assigned as the default action upon pressing the search button, but the app appears to be dead, and I would prefer a free software solution if at all possible. Also, the Android-native QuickSearchBox is well-integrated and has a far superior user experience as compared to OpenSearch. Ideally, the functionality and flexibility of OpenSearch would be combined with the design of QuickSearchBox; the ability to add any search engine via an OpenSearch XML description is quite a good feature. It would be even more awesome if the browser could detect an OpenSearch file as listed in the website's HTML and offer the user to install it as a search engine (I think WebOS does something like this). I'm getting a little off-track here though.

Thanks for any insight anyone can provide (I hope the solution will be something more simple than I'm expecting).

0. https://github.com/C...QuickSearchBox/
1. https://market.andro...chns.opensearch