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Searchview with back button

I'm implementing searchview without Actionbar and toolbar. Everything is fixed, just back button remains. Below is my xml.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
<SearchView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:animateLayoutChanges="true"">
</SearchView>
</RelativeLayout>
I got something like this.
Below is the image what I need.
Any help would be great.

Use android.support.v7.widget.SearchView
Create a menu file like this in res/menu
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">
<item
android:id="#+id/menu_search_album"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_search"
android:title="#string/str_search_album"
app:actionViewClass="android.support.v7.widget.SearchView"
app:showAsAction="collapseActionView|always" />
</menu>
Create a searchable.xml file like this in res/xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<searchable xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:label="#string/app_name"
android:hint="#string/search" >
</searchable>
now in your activity you need to Override onCreateOptionsMenu() method
#Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.my_menu, menu);
MenuItem searchItem = menu.findItem(R.id.menu_search);
SearchView searchView = (SearchView) searchItem.getActionView();
searchView.setOnQueryTextListener(new SearchView.OnQueryTextListener() {
#Override
public boolean onQueryTextSubmit(String s) {
return false;
}
#Override
public boolean onQueryTextChange(String s) {
return false;
}
});
return true;
}
Now in your manifest file
<activity android:name=".MainActivity">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
<meta-data android:name="android.app.searchable"
android:resource="#xml/searchable"/>
</activity>
for more information android.support.v7.widget.SearchView
Also check How to create search interface

For API 21+ you can use android:searchIcon="[your drawable here]".

Intent is not triggered in android searchview

Here is my code for searchview in android.Search option is visible on the toolbar but when a text and entered and searched it does not trigger SearchActivity.
xml/searchable.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<searchable xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:label="#string/label"
android:hint="#string/search" >
</searchable>
menu/menu.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">
<item android:id="#+id/search"
android:title="#string/search_title"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_search"
app:showAsAction="collapseActionView|ifRoom"
app:actionViewClass="android.support.v7.widget.SearchView" />
</menu>
AndroidManifest.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
package="com.welcomecure.searchview">
<application
android:allowBackup="true"
android:icon="#mipmap/ic_launcher"
android:label="#string/app_name"
android:supportsRtl="true"
android:theme="#style/AppTheme">
<activity android:name=".MainActivity">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
<meta-data
android:name="android.app.default_searchable"
android:value=".SearchResultsActivity" />
</activity>
<activity
android:name=".SearchActivity"
android:label="#string/app_name">
<!-- to identify this activity as "searchable" -->
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.SEARCH" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
</intent-filter>
<meta-data
android:name="android.app.searchable"
android:resource="#xml/searchable" />
</activity>
</application>
</manifest>
MainActivity.java
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
}
#Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
// Inflate menu to add items to action bar if it is present.
inflater.inflate(R.menu.menu, menu);
// Associate searchable configuration with the SearchView
SearchManager searchManager =
(SearchManager) getSystemService(Context.SEARCH_SERVICE);
SearchView searchView =
(SearchView) menu.findItem(R.id.search).getActionView();
searchView.setSearchableInfo(
searchManager.getSearchableInfo(getComponentName()));
return true;
}
}
SearchActivity.java
public class SearchActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
#Override
protected void onCreate(#Nullable Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
handleIntent(getIntent());
}
#Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
inflater.inflate(R.menu.menu, menu);
SearchManager searchManager =
(SearchManager) getSystemService(Context.SEARCH_SERVICE);
SearchView searchView =
(SearchView) menu.findItem(R.id.search).getActionView();
searchView.setSearchableInfo(
searchManager.getSearchableInfo(getComponentName()));
return true;
}
#Override
protected void onNewIntent(Intent intent) {
handleIntent(intent);
}
private void handleIntent(Intent intent) {
if (Intent.ACTION_SEARCH.equals(intent.getAction())) {
String query = intent.getStringExtra(SearchManager.QUERY);
//use the query to search
}
}
}

Your Activity is named SearchActivity, but you declared SearchResultsActivity in manifest:
<meta-data
android:name="android.app.default_searchable"
android:value=".SearchResultsActivity" />
From the docs:
To declare the searchable activity for an activity's search dialog,
add a element inside the respective activity's
element. The element must include the android:value
attribute that specifies the searchable activity's class name and the
android:name attribute with a value of
"android.app.default_searchable".

try to use the same activity name from the calling activity, you used SearchActivity to show the search result, try to use the same activity name
<activity android:name=".MainActivity">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
<meta-data
android:name="android.app.default_searchable"
android:value=".SearchActivity" />
</activity>

You can also do this programmatically.
searchView.setOnQueryTextListener(new SearchView.OnQueryTextListener() {
#Override
public boolean onQueryTextSubmit(String query) { // this is triggered when you press the key search from keyboard.
return true;
}
#Override
public boolean onQueryTextChange(String newText) { // this is triggered when you change your search text.
return true;
}
});

Android Search Widget in Actionbar and second unnecessary search on top

I want to create a search for the user in the ActionBar. I use the SearchView Widget as an Action View. But when I include the
part in the manifest, it also pops up a second search on top. Both the view on top and the ActionBar Search work. When I remove the part from the manifest, the second Search doesn't pop up and only the one in the ActionBar does, but nothing happens when I hit the search button.
This is how it looks:
I only want the second view not the white search on top. Perhaps somebody easily sees whats wrong.
This is my AndroidManifest.xml
<application
android:allowBackup="true"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_launcher"
android:label="#string/app_name"
android:theme="#style/BlueTheme">
<activity
android:name=".MainActivity"
android:configChanges="orientation|screenSize"
android:label="#string/app_name"
android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
<meta-data android:name="android.app.default_searchable"
android:value=".helper.SearchResultsActivity" />
</activity>
<activity android:name=".helper.SearchResultsActivity">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.SEARCH" />
</intent-filter>
<meta-data android:name="android.app.searchable"
android:resource="#xml/searchable"/>
</activity>
</application>
The part of the Fragment(as part of MainActivity) which handles the search:
#Override
public void onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu, MenuInflater inflater) {
inflater.inflate(R.menu.persons, menu);
Log.d("ml Person", "creating Options Menu for Persons");
// Associate searchable configuration with the SearchView
SearchManager searchManager = (SearchManager) getActivity().getSystemService(Context.SEARCH_SERVICE);
SearchView searchView = (SearchView) menu.findItem(R.id.action_search).getActionView();
searchView.setSearchableInfo(searchManager.getSearchableInfo(getActivity().getComponentName()));
super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu, inflater);
}
#Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
int id = item.getItemId();
switch (id) {
case R.id.action_search:
getActivity().onSearchRequested();
return true;
}
return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}
widget in menu:
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">
<item
android:id="#+id/action_search"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_search_white_24dp"
android:orderInCategory="10"
android:title="#string/action_search"
app:showAsAction="ifRoom|collapseActionView"
app:actionViewClass="android.support.v7.widget.SearchView"/>
</menu>
searchable.xml
<searchable xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:label="#string/app_name"
android:hint="#string/search_hint_persons" />

How to open a new activity to show results from a SearchView?

I've been working in an application that uses a SearchView Widget as an ActionView in the ActionBar.
The problem occurs when I type a search and hit the search button, it opens the same activity, what I want to do is to open a new Activity and show the results on a ListView, how can this be fixed?
This is my AndroidManifest.xml file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
package="andres.hotelsoria" >
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />
<application
android:allowBackup="true"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_launcher_hotel"
android:label="#string/app_name"
android:theme="#style/AppTheme" >
<activity
android:name=".MainActivity"
android:label="#string/app_name" >
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<action android:name="android.intent.action.SEARCH" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
<meta-data
android:name="android.app.searchable"
android:resource="#xml/searchable" />
</activity>
<activity
android:name=".SearchableActivity"
android:label="#string/title_activity_searchable" >
</activity>
</application>

You can start a new activity by attaching a OnQueryTextListener to the SearchView.
final SearchView.OnQueryTextListener queryTextListener = new SearchView.OnQueryTextListener() {
#Override
public boolean onQueryTextSubmit(String query) {
Intent intent = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), SearchableActivity.Class);
startActivity(intent);
return true;
}
#Override
public boolean onQueryTextChange(String newText) {
return true;
}
};
searchView.setOnQueryTextListener(queryTextListener);

read this post
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/search/index.html
as mentioned in this document follow these steps
1)Create a folder in res->xml->searchable.xml paste content as mention in documentation
2)Go to AndroidManifest.xml and change Activity(where you want to deliver result for search) to this
<activity android:name=".SearchableActivity" >
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.SEARCH" />
</intent-filter>
<meta-data android:name="android.app.searchable"
android:resource="#xml/searchable"/>
</activity>
3)Declare the SearchView in menu.xml file as
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
tools:context="your activity context" >
<item
android:id="#+id/mi_search"
android:title="#string/search"
android:orderInCategory="2"
android:icon="#drawable/searchicon"
app:showAsAction="collapseActionView|ifRoom"
app:actionViewClass="android.support.v7.widget.SearchView" />
4)in onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) do this code
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
// Inflate the options menu from XML
MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
inflater.inflate(R.menu.options_menu, menu);
// Get the SearchView and set the searchable configuration
SearchManager searchManager = (SearchManager) getSystemService(Context.SEARCH_SERVICE);
SearchView searchView = (SearchView) menu.findItem(R.id.menu_search).getActionView();
// Assumes current activity is the searchable activity
searchView.setSearchableInfo(searchManager.getSearchableInfo(getComponentName()));
searchView.setIconifiedByDefault(false); // Do not iconify the widget;
5)in onOptionsItemSelected.
->fetch Id of search view
->simple paste onSearchRequested() inside block
public boolean onSearchRequested() {
return super.onSearchRequested();
}
6)register searchView with onQueryTextListener and do what you want to do
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/SearchView.OnQueryTextListener.html

//You hav to start the new activity like this
SearchView.OnQueryTextListener textListener = new SearchView.OnQueryTextListener() {
#Override
public boolean onQueryTextSubmit(String query) {
//use intent here to start new activity and pass "query" string.
return true;
}
#Override
public boolean onQueryTextChange(String newText) {
return true;
}
};
searchView.setOnQueryTextListener(textListener);

Search on action bar does not call search activity

I am trying to make a search bar and I followed the tutorial on http://developer.android.com/training/search/setup.html. It does not work and SearchResultsActivity does not get called, so I immediately found the following question:
Search widget on action bar doesn't trigger my search activity. However, the solutions listed there (more specifically, adding meta-data inside in AndroidManifest.xml and using references to strings in xml/searchable.xml) do not solve my problem. I also tried putting meta-data in <activity> in AndroidManifest.xml and numerous other solutions to no avail.
What am I doing wrong?
Here is my code:
main.xml:
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
tools:context="com.jsondataparser.app.MainActivity" >
<item android:id="#+id/action_settings"
android:title="#string/action_settings"
android:orderInCategory="100"
app:showAsAction="never" />
<item android:id="#+id/search_menu"
android:title="#string/app_name"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_launcher"
android:showAsAction="collapseActionView|ifRoom"
android:actionViewClass="android.widget.SearchView" />
</menu>
xml/searchable.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<searchable xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:label="#string/app_name"
android:hint="#string/app_name">
</searchable>
AndroidManifest.xml:
<application
android:allowBackup="true"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_launcher"
android:label="#string/app_name"
android:theme="#style/AppTheme" >
<meta-data android:name="android.app.default_searchable" android:value=".SearchResultsActivity" />
<activity
android:name="com.jsondataparser.app.MainActivity"
android:label="#string/app_name" >
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
<activity android:name="com.jsondataparser.app.SearchResultsActivity">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.SEARCH" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
</application>
MainActivity.java:
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
inflater.inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
// Associate searchable configuration with the SearchView
SearchManager searchManager = (SearchManager)getSystemService(Context.SEARCH_SERVICE);
SearchView searchView = (SearchView) menu.findItem(R.id.search_menu).getActionView();
searchView.setSearchableInfo(searchManager.getSearchableInfo(getComponentName()));
return true;
}
SearchResultsActivity.java:
public class SearchResultsActivity extends Activity {
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
Log.d("SearchResultsActivity", "onCreate called");
handleIntent(getIntent());
}
#Override
protected void onNewIntent(Intent intent) {
handleIntent(intent);
Log.d("SearchResultsActivity", "onNewIntent called");
}
private void handleIntent(Intent intent) {
if (Intent.ACTION_SEARCH.equals(intent.getAction())) {
String query = intent.getStringExtra(SearchManager.QUERY);
Log.d("SearchResultsActivity", query);
}
}
}

Put also
<meta-data android:name="android.app.default_searchable"
android:value=".SearchResultsActivity" />
inside <activity> in your AndroidManifest.