CircleToSearch with multi search engine support for all android - AKS-Labs/CircleToSearch
Is anyone familiar with the specifics of how Circle to Search (linked) works? I was looking for a FOSS alternative to the google circle to search tool and came across it. It seems to describe its implementation in a clear way on the GitHub page, but I have not validated that it does actually operate using that architecture, or that it keeps to its promises about not caching info that is pulled from its third party OCR tools.
On android it asks for “advanced permissions” which I presume are needed to take screenshots and share these with the third party OCR service. Since I havent validated how it works though, I wanted to check if anyone else has before I provide it those permissions.
Might work with the floating button, but I won’t activate it to test.
The accessibility option it needs is unclear, it just sent me to the android accessibility setting tab with no idea what needs to be done there, if anything.
It didn’t replace my default assistant when I tried to change it.
Circletosearch says to double tap the status bar? Why? That doesn’t do anything?
I didn’t see anything sketchy about the app, but it doesn’t appear to be functional, so meh. Maybe try again after they’ve worked on it some more.
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App doesn’t appear to work at all.
Might work with the floating button, but I won’t activate it to test.
The accessibility option it needs is unclear, it just sent me to the android accessibility setting tab with no idea what needs to be done there, if anything.
It didn’t replace my default assistant when I tried to change it.
Circletosearch says to double tap the status bar? Why? That doesn’t do anything?
I didn’t see anything sketchy about the app, but it doesn’t appear to be functional, so meh. Maybe try again after they’ve worked on it some more.