I want to add a search bar functionality top at the action bar like in Play Store app.
EditText should be expanded on click of the search button
How can I achieve this ?
Sorry if my question doesn't show any research effort, however i googled it & didn't find any result.
Thanks in advance
Here what I found https://github.com/Quinny898/PersistentSearch. Voice recognition is also available.
This functionality is called Action View. It allows you to embed widgets into the action bar, and the widgets will substitute the action button when you click it.
Here is the Google's tutorial on how to embed SearchView into an action bar: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/search/search-dialog.html#UsingSearchWidget
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I've been looking around but I can't seem to find out how to implement an action bar that looks like the one in Google maps and Google now. Can anyone give me a link to a documentation/tutorial or at least the name of that type of action bar?
Edit:I've attached a picture of what i want the action bar to look like
Okay I've solved this myself. I hid the default actionbar and used XML to create the custom actionbar(using linearlayout, EditText and Buttons).
As per new material design update , the Google pay store app action search opens a search dialog thing once tab on search action button. This search interface is different than a default action view provided by android in action bar(which opens in action-bar only.)
So my question is how to implement a new search action dialog like google play store app. Is there any android official component or I have to create a custom dialog view for this? If the second one , then please show how to achieve this type of search view?
The following link might be helpful. It is a custom implementation of the search. Please have a look.
https://github.com/Quinny898/PersistentSearch
its android default searchview with android:iconifiedByDefault="true" settings. the initial response that is shown to you after you click is based on your search history, i am guessing it will be saved, and later as you start typing in the edit text do the api call.
I need to open android support library action bar overflow menu (the one shown with three vertical dots) programatically. I know its a silly requirement but one of my client is insisting that they want the menu option to be opened and visible when user tap on a button in an activity.
Any pointer on how to do this will be highly appreciated.
Try using openOptionsMenu in your Activity.
You can do something similar to this implementing your own custom ActionProvider Check this out, in the "Creating a custom action provider" section.
Hope it helps
i'm pretty confused on how to use action bar sherlock.. i've 'installed' it successfully in my apps (I can already see the bar at the top of my apps), but how do I 'configure' it? for example i use this
<item name="abDisplayOptions">useLogo|showHome|homeAsUp|showTitle</item>
so I can see the apps logo in the action bar, the 'back' button at the left side of the logo, but I don't know where should I put the code (and what code to write) to enable the 'back' buttons on action bar, clicking on logo will bring the user to the apps home, and other things such as put a search icon on the action bar and so on.. i tried looking at the actionbarsherlock google groups but I don't know what to search to help me...
Just check the samples here : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.actionbarsherlock.sample.demos
And the corresponding code here : https://github.com/JakeWharton/ActionBarSherlock
I am trying to find a way to impelement a share button into my app (same like the one in the standard ICS gallary app, see picture link).
http://betanews.com/2011/10/19/get-acquainted-with-the-newest-android-ice-cream-sandwich-slideshow/#11
Intent.ACTION_SEND only opens a dialoge to the select the sharing options.
Android Share Via Dialog
This works fine, but from design side, I find this drop down list to select a app much more convenient.
Yet I cant figure out how to?
Does anybody have a good Idea how this button could be coded?
That is implemented using a ListPopupWindow, which at the moment is only available on Android 4.0.
This is implemented using ShareActionProvider available in SDK14+.
ActionProvider class replaces an action item with a customized layout,
but it also takes control of all the item's behaviors. When you
declare an action provider for a menu item in the action bar, it not
only controls the appearance of the item in the action bar with a
custom layout, but also handles the default event for the menu item
when it appears in the overflow menu
Its quiet easy to implement, you can follow the official documentation here.