1. Which platform are you looking at? Android, iOS, other? If you are on Android, you can directly use lucene to build an embedded solution for search. Depending upon your need, that can offer a small enough footprint. We've done some work around embedding lucene for a specific application on Android, happy to brainstorm offline.
Thanks, Sameer. -- http://measuredsearch.com On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Arcadius Ahouansou <arcad...@menelic.com>wrote: > Hello. > > We are planning to offer search as an embedded functionality into > mobile/low-power devices. > > The main requirement are: > > - ability to index and search documents available on the mobile device, > - no need of internet access, > - lightweight, low footprint and fast > > We are looking into various options. > > As I understand it, Solr would be way too heavy for mobile devices. > > Has anyone used Lucene/Solr for off-line search on mobile devices? > > Are there better alternatives for off-line full-text search? > > Many thanks. > > Arcadius. > -- Sameer Maggon Founder, Measured Search m: 310.344.7266 tw: @measuredsearch w: http://www.measuredsearch.com
