Mobile design/Wikipedia navigation/Search

This page captures the functional design of search on Wikipedia Mobile as it has been currently implemented and as we propose to implement it on both the mobile site and apps.

Components of search
The main components of search are:
 * type-ahead suggestions based on article titles
 * full-text search
 * "Did you mean" for possible misspellings

These components interact and are displayed in a certain way on the desktop site and that behavior is not completely suitable on the mobile site or apps. User interaction is significantly different on mobile devices and so a basic implementation in the Android app used the following conventions: