com.google.android.overlay.gmsconfig.searchlauncherqs Copy

A "GMS config" package in the same family as the other com.google.android.overlay.gmsconfig entries documented on this site. Its name follows Android's Runtime Resource Overlay (RRO) convention: an RRO changes the resource values of a target package at runtime without altering the target's code, which lets a build carry its configuration separately from the component being configured. In this site's sample it has no launcher entry in any observation, declares no permissions, and every copy is the same very small size (about 8.5 KB), which fits a configuration-only package. What the "searchlauncherqs" suffix refers to could not be sourced. It reads as though it relates to a search-enabled launcher, and "qs" may abbreviate Quickstep, the recents and gesture-navigation part of the AOSP launcher, but that is a guess from the spelling alone: Google does not publish what the GMS config overlays target or what values they set, and no primary source consulted names this one. The target and the contents of any given build's copy are therefore deliberately left as an open question here. Provenance is worth noting, because the name misleads. Despite the com.google.android prefix, where this site has signer data the package is almost always signed by the device maker (Fairphone, Motorola, Crosscall, OUKITEL, NUU, Newland and others) rather than by Google, with only two observations carrying a key this site classifies as Google's. The version is uniformly reported as 1.0, which looks like a build marker rather than a meaningful release number. Version note: it is observed from API 30 through API 36 in this sample, so it does not appear tied to one Android release; that is an observation about this database's devices rather than a published support range. For Android Enterprise, EMM and kiosk use it has no role in enrolment or policy and exposes nothing interactive. The launcher a managed device presents is controlled through EMM policy (kiosk or dedicated-device launcher settings and application policy), not by removing an overlay, so disabling this offers no benefit and could change behaviour in ways that are specific to the device and hard to predict. Treat it as caution and leave it in place.

• Change the value of an app's resources at runtime (RROs) - Android Open Source Project →
• Package provenance for com.google.android.overlay.gmsconfig.searchlauncherqs - Android System App Database →

• Re-signed by each device maker with its own platform key - 12 different certificates appear across 10 device makers in our sample. That is the signature of a stock AOSP/system package every OEM builds and signs itself, not a single maker's or a third party's preinstall.
• Never reported as user-facing, so it runs as a background or system component rather than an app the user opens.