During my Google Summer of Code project I implemented message search for Dino, a XMPP client focusing on ease of use and security. Try it out My pull request has been merged and is included in the latest builds on OBS.

Jumping to results For each search hit in the results, three messages are (partially) displayed: The actual hit and the messages before and after that. The hit is clickable and clicking it will jump to the hit in the conversation history.

Prototype filters One of the cool features of modern search engines - both in web search and chat search - is the ability to further filter the results using special expressions.

Full text search As announced in my previous blog post, we’ll use SQLite’s Full-Text-Search (FTS) functionality for fast and powerful search functionality directly in the database. To make use of FTS, I had to extend the Dino’s qlite library, which provides a database abstraction for SQLite.

The first two weeks of GSoC are over now - time to share some insights on what I have been doing so far to provide a great search user experience in Dino by the end of the summer.

On May 14th the Google Summer of Code 2018 coding period will start and with it my project on Dino. I want to contribute making Dino a fresh and sufficiently full-featured XMPP client by implementing message search during the next months.