Search field scrolls with the list; magnifier on the alphabet; a chosen letter's group goes to the middle

Three more requests from the owner on 12 November 2026.

Search field
- The field scrolls away with the list and comes back at the list's top, so the list has
  the whole height once it is scrolled. The field is not turned into a list row. The list
  now starts at the top of the drawer instead of under the field and keeps the field's room
  as top padding (ActivityAllAppsContainerView.replaceAppsRVContainer and
  AdapterHolder.applyPadding); FlexeraDrawer.moveSearchFieldWithList shifts the field by as
  much as the list has scrolled, measured from the first row, and cuts it at the same line
  the rows are cut at, the lower edge of the status bar.
- With work tabs, a hidden or a floating search field, and during a search, nothing changes.

Alphabet
- A magnifier above the letters stands for the search field. Scrubbing to it jumps the list
  to its top; the bubble shows the magnifier. The stretch of edge kept for the strip grows
  by one place for it.
- The strip measures its room from where the list's rows start, not from the list's top.

Chosen letter
- A scrub brings the letter's group to the middle of the screen, where the thumb is,
  instead of to the top: the group's middle on the list's middle, a long group's header no
  higher than 22% of the height. At either end of the list the list stops at its end, so
  the first groups stay at the top and the last ones rest at the bottom.

Checked on the Android 17 emulator: scrolling by hand, scrubs to a middle letter, the last
letter and the magnifier, typing a search and leaving it, reopening after a scrub, the hold
and edge gestures, and a row's long-press menu.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.2 <noreply@anthropic.com>

src/com/android/launcher3/allapps/ActivityAllAppsContainerView.java

@@ -192,6 +192,8 @@ public class ActivityAllAppsContainerView<T extends Context & ActivityContext>
     protected View mSearchContainer;
     protected SearchUiManager mSearchUiManager;
     protected boolean mUsingTabs;
+    // Flexera Launcher: see replaceAppsRVContainer.
+    private boolean mFlexeraSearchFieldScrolls;
     protected RecyclerViewFastScroller mTouchHandler;
 
     /** {@code true} when rendered view is in search state instead of the scroll state. */
@@ -849,9 +851,28 @@ public class ActivityAllAppsContainerView<T extends Context & ActivityContext>
             layoutBelowSearchContainer(getSearchRecyclerView(), /* tabs= */ false);
         }
 
+        // Flexera Launcher: the search field scrolls away with the list. For that the list
+        // starts at the top of the drawer, not under the field, and keeps the field's room as
+        // top padding (AdapterHolder.applyPadding); FlexeraDrawer.moveSearchFieldWithList then
+        // moves the field as the list scrolls. Work tabs sit between the two and stay put, so
+        // with tabs the field stays where it is, as before.
+        mFlexeraSearchFieldScrolls =
+                !showTabs && !isAppDrawerSearchBarHidden() && !isSearchBarFloating();
+        if (mFlexeraSearchFieldScrolls
+                && rvContainer.getLayoutParams() instanceof RelativeLayout.LayoutParams lp) {
+            lp.removeRule(RelativeLayout.ALIGN_TOP);
+            lp.addRule(RelativeLayout.ALIGN_PARENT_TOP);
+            lp.topMargin = 0;
+        }
+
         updateSearchResultsVisibility();
     }
 
+    /** Flexera Launcher: true while the search field scrolls away with the list. */
+    public boolean flexeraSearchFieldScrolls() {
+        return mFlexeraSearchFieldScrolls;
+    }
+
     /**
      * Sets up header rows and hides the header shell when neither tabs nor visible row content
      * requires it, keeping adapter top padding consistent with that visibility.
@@ -917,6 +938,8 @@ public class ActivityAllAppsContainerView<T extends Context & ActivityContext>
     }
 
     protected void updateHeaderScroll(int scrolledOffset) {
+        // Flexera Launcher: the search field moves up with the list.
+        app.flexera.drawer.FlexeraDrawer.moveSearchFieldWithList(this);
         if (isAppDrawerSearchBarHidden() && !mUsingTabs)
             return;
         
@@ -1421,6 +1444,11 @@ public class ActivityAllAppsContainerView<T extends Context & ActivityContext>
             setPadding(grid.allAppsLeftRightMargin, topPadding, grid.allAppsLeftRightMargin, 0);
         }
         InsettableFrameLayout.dispatchInsets(this, insets);
+        // Flexera Launcher: the list's top padding follows the search field's place, which the
+        // line above may just have changed.
+        if (mFlexeraSearchFieldScrolls) {
+            mAH.get(AdapterHolder.MAIN).applyPadding();
+        }
     }
 
     /**
@@ -1905,7 +1933,17 @@ public class ActivityAllAppsContainerView<T extends Context & ActivityContext>
                 if (isSearchBarFloating()) {
                     bottomOffset += mSearchContainer.getHeight();
                 }
-                mRecyclerView.setPadding(mPadding.left, mPadding.top, mPadding.right,
+                int top = mPadding.top;
+                // Flexera Launcher: the room the search field takes at the top of the list, now
+                // that the list starts above the field (see replaceAppsRVContainer): the
+                // field's own distance from the top, and what used to be kept under its top edge.
+                if (mFlexeraSearchFieldScrolls && isMain()) {
+                    top += getResources().getDimensionPixelSize(R.dimen.all_apps_header_top_margin);
+                    if (mSearchContainer.getLayoutParams() instanceof MarginLayoutParams field) {
+                        top += field.topMargin;
+                    }
+                }
+                mRecyclerView.setPadding(mPadding.left, top, mPadding.right,
                         mPadding.bottom + bottomOffset);
             }
         }