Search/Find within iOS app?

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Search/Find within iOS app?

Postby j42k » 31 May 2016 00:53

Is it possible to search through a list of files within the VLC iOS app? I cannot find any method to do it.

Two examples:
1. Media Library / All Files -- I have several downloaded files, which are listed alphabetically. However, I would like to search the file for part of a file name.
2. Network / Local Network -- I connect to my Universal UPnP server, navigate to a folder and see my 200 movies in alphabetical order. However, I must scroll through the list to find the content I would like to see. I would prefer to have a "find" or "search" button to quickly search through the names listed.

Please let me know if there is search capability and I am missing it. If there is no capability, it would be great to have it added. Thanks!

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Re: Search/Find within iOS app?

Postby fkuehne » 31 May 2016 12:47

Search is available only for local contents stored on iPhone and iPod touch at this point. It will come to network device listings on any device very soon :)
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Re: Search/Find within iOS app?

Postby j42k » 31 May 2016 14:49

Thanks!
How do you currently search local content? If I use the iOS app and go to the Media Library / All Files, I can see the movies that I have downloaded but no way to search them.

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Re: Search/Find within iOS app?

Postby fkuehne » 31 May 2016 15:01

Double-tap on the title bar to reveal a search field. Note that this won't work on iPad.
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Re: Search/Find within iOS app?

Postby j42k » 31 May 2016 15:15

Perfect response! It is not intuitive to have to double click to find it; however, once I found this trick, worked well. I'm looking forward to see this implemented on the Network / Local Network area.


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