[Contact] Search form favorite tab should search in all contacts.

[Noneangel]

When I search contacts from favorites tab, it will only search in the favorites contacts. In my use case, the number of favorites is quite low (2 to be precise), so the search feature is useless. When I search from favorites, I expect to get results from all contacts.

My workflow:

1. I open the app on the favorite tab by default (contains my 6 family members).
2. If the contact I want is here → Done
3. If the contact is not on my favorite tab, I will need to search for it (I have more than 100 contacts, so scrolling is not an option). If I search from the favorite tab, it will only look on the favorites. So I need to switch to Contact tab, then do the search. Usually, I forgot about this, so I start searching from favorites → no result, then start over my search in the Contact tab.

I have some suggestion to improve this:

1. Favorites contacts could be pined to the top of the Contact tab, and the Favorite tab could be removed. In this case, Favorites should be duplicated (once at the top, once in the sorted order). With this option, I will always start a search from Contact tab, so my problem is solved.
2. Search from the Favorite tab could search on all the contacts. (If a user have a lot of favorites, IMHO, it should be on another group than favorite).
3. (exclusive with .1) When searching from a tab, the search query should be preserved if I change tab (to avoid re-typing the search).

Thank you for this app!

[naveensingh]

There's a request about making the search global: FossifyOrg/Phone#150

When searching from a tab, the search query should be preserved if I change tab (to avoid re-typing the search).

The search query is preserved in v1.5.0 and above.

[naveensingh]

My bad. I thought you were talking about the Phone app. Will make those changes in Contacts too.