Made preferences searchable

[litetex]

What is it?

• Bugfix (user facing)
• Feature (user facing)
• Codebase improvement (dev facing)
• Meta improvement to the project (dev facing)

Description of the changes in your PR

This is one of the PR which will improve the search according to #3192 (comment).

• Adds a (fuzzy) search to the preferences (based on https://github.com/ByteHamster/SearchPreference but heavily modified)
• Minor code cleanups
• (minor change) moves the "Clear reCAPTCHA cookies" preference to the "history & cache"-area and disables it by default.
  Currently it's under the "Content"-area and removed by default. I did this so that it's possible to search this setting.

Demo:

NPDemoPrefSearch1.gif.mp4

APK testing

The APK can be found by going to the "Checks" tab below the title. On the left pane, click on "CI", scroll down to "artifacts" and click "app" to download the zip file which contains the debug APK of this PR.

Due diligence

• I read the contribution guidelines.

[opusforlife2]

Sweeeeeet.

[TacoTheDank]

Good work! 👍

[litetex]

Here a quick "How to" for testing the release version with Android Studio:

1. You need a JKS file with a signing key
   1. Menu bar>Build>Generate signed bundle or APK
   2. Choose APK
   3. Create new
   4. Fill the form out accordingly (Note: Certificate only needs one field filled in)
2. Create a new signing config
   1. Menu bar>File>Project Structure
   2. Modules>app>Signing configs
   3. Add a new one
   4. Fill in the data from the above created JKS file
3. Select the new signing config
   1. Menu bar>File>Project Structure
   2. Build Variants>app>Build Types>release
   3. Set Signing Config to above (created) one
4. Change the active build variant to release
   1. On the bottom left side open (the collapsed) "Build Variants" view
   2. Change "Active Build Variant" to release

Run the app on your device/emulator as ususal.

[litetex]

Note: Set the PR status to draft because when you e.g. rotate the screen the UI crashes due to Androids super cool activity lifecycle.

[Stypox]

I reviewed ~1/3 of the files, will continue later

[Stypox]

Great PR! The code you took, though not perfect, is easily readable and makes sense. I still haven't tested, will do later I tested, and it seems to work well :-D

[Stypox]

Thank you, code looks good :-)
I tested on API 19 emulated, API 31 emulated and API 29 device and everything worked as expected. The highlighting on API 19 correctly shows the play button next to the setting to highlight, debug & updates settings are correctly removed, every setting category shows up.

[litetex]

@Stypox
Oh no the commit that removes the commented out code removed your approval :(

[sonarqubecloud]

Kudos, SonarCloud Quality Gate passed!   

0 Bugs
0 Vulnerabilities
0 Security Hotspots
2 Code Smells

0.0% Coverage
0.2% Duplication

[opusforlife2]

Oh no the commit that removes the commented out code removed your approval :(

@litetex No worries. Here you go.

Stypox approved again.