17. The method of claim 1 , wherein displaying the first GUI comprises displaying a search box.
1. A method comprising: at a mobile computing device including a touchscreen display, a transceiver, a non-transitory memory, and one or more processors: displaying a first graphical user interface (GUI) via a first native application that is installed at the mobile computing device, wherein the first GUI is configured to accept search queries; receiving a search query via the first GUI, wherein the search query comprises one or more search terms; transmitting, via the transceiver, the search query to a search engine operated by a search engine operator; receiving, via the transceiver, search results in response to transmitting the search query, wherein at least one of the search results includes a post execution view of a second native application; and displaying the post execution view on the touchscreen display, wherein the post execution view comprises a second GUI that provides direct access to a function associated with the second native application; and at the search engine including a network interface device, a non-transitory memory and one or more processors: receiving the search query from the mobile computing device via the network interface device; identifying, based on the search terms of the search query, a set of third party applications, including the second native application, corresponding to the search query specified in an index that stores information related to the set of third party applications, each third party application of the set of third party applications comprising code that is executable at the mobile computing device; for each third party application of the set of third party applications, transmitting a query parameters to a server associated with the set of third party applications, for each third party application of the set of third party applications, receiving a response from the server associated with the set of third party application, executing the code associated with each third party application of the set of third party applications upon receiving the response from the server associated with the set of third party application; generating the post execution view of a particular state of each third party application upon executing the code; and transmitting the post execution view of the particular state of each third party application of the set of third party applications to the mobile computing device as a search result.