Media searching on mobile devices

Mobile devices such as cellular phones are now capable of storing a significant amount of multimedia files and personal data. However these devices still use traditional directory browsing which offers little in terms of usability for searching and retrieving specific files. In this paper we design and implement a prototype media search engine for a mobile phone. We use modified versions of open source search and metadata extraction libraries along with scrollable instant search results and an auto-fill feature. The prototype has acceptable performance in terms of resource requirement and execution speed. Potential applications may include multimedia file searching in distributed mobile computing and peer-to-peer file sharing environments.