BUG: Android Library Search Results

Today in this thread I asked why my library search results were inconsistent across the desktop, web, iOS and Android apps.

I am filing a bug report now because the Android results are way off.

Examples:

Search term "Justification" (without quotes):

Desktop app: 167 resources
Web app: 166 resources
IOS app: 167 resources
Android app: 28 resources

Search term "Redemption" (without quotes):

Desktop app: 178 resources
Web app: 171 resources
IOS app: 178 resources
Android app: 19 resources

The search which started this: "Biblical Theology" (without quotes):

Desktop app: 883 resources
Web app: 448 resources
iOS app: 881 resources
Android app: 70

My concern is with the Android app specifically. It seems the other apps are in the ballpark of search results returned (although I don't understand why the web app had over 400 fewer results than the desktop app in the last search).

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Comments

Ali Pope

Hi Bill, thank you for the detailed description. We are investigating this issue. I will reach back out when I have an update. Thank you!

Bill Anderson

Hi Bill, thank you for the detailed description. We are investigating this issue. I will reach back out when I have an update. Thank you!

I'm bumping this because I just reran the searches of the terms on Android with no improvement in results.

Lew Worthington

I have had a long (very long, in fact) critique about the way the Android app is so far off in returning library results. I can not only confirm equally weird results (for example, redemption gives me 9 in Android and 102 on the desktop when I exclude personal books), but I have just learned not to trust any of the library's results. After years of grappling with this, it would be great to see it fixed.

Ali Pope

After the team looked more into this issue, we've realized that this fix will involve a lot more investigation and time. We have a case open to improve this experience.