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Creating a Search Interface in a Android with Kotlin

I am having a hard time figuring out the documentation on creating a search Interface.
My main activity contains the search widget on the app bar but when I perform a search query it does not launch the Searchable Activity; responsible for displaying the results.
Below is my manifest file for the SearchbaleActivity and MainActivity
<activity
android:name=".activities.SearchableActivity"
android:exported="false"
android:label="#string/title_activity_searchable"
android:theme="#style/Theme.MoveApplication.NoActionBar">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.SEARCH" />
</intent-filter>
<meta-data android:name="android.app.searchable"
android:resource="#xml/searchable"/>
</activity>
<activity
android:name=".activities.MainActivity"
android:exported="false" >
</activity>
Should my intent-filter and meta-data attributes be in my MainActivity or SearchableActivity?
And even so, my SearchableActivity should launch despite not handling the query, right?
My Android skills are not that great so i'll appreciate a vivid explanation with examples

Global search not working as expected in Android 4.4

I've got an application that has two search suggestion providers that both extend SearchRecentSuggestionsProvider, and I've set it up correctly in the manifest file with the following Intent filter and meta-data:
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.SEARCH" />
</intent-filter>
<meta-data
android:name="android.app.searchable"
android:resource="#xml/searchable_tv" />
The searcable resource includes android:includeInGlobalSearch="true", so that should be fine.
And I've obviously got a provider there as well:
<provider
android:name="com.miz.contentprovider.TvShowContentProvider"
android:authorities="com.miz.contentprovider.TvShowContentProvider"
android:exported="true" />
This all worked just fine in Android 4.3 using the Google search application, but I've just updated all my devices to Android 4.4 and I am no longer able to search content within my application. Same thing goes for other applications that worked before the OS update, i.e. Google Play Music.
I've found a thread on XDA developers that mentions this as well, if it helps: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=47472102
Does anyone have any idea what's happening or how it can be fixed?
Update: I can confirm that it only occurs on devices with Android 4.4. I've tested on an Android 4.3 device using the latest Google Search update, and it works as expected. Looks like it's a bug in Google's update.

I found this commit in AOSP, which might be related:
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/QuickSearchBox/+/ecf356c15143ab0583c64682de16d94a57f7dd1c
The commit message tells us that this feature was removed due to performance reasons (which might or might not be true, given that it references an internal ticket id and I didn't find a related issue about this on the official bugtracker).

I checked with contacts at Google, and App Indexing is replacing this. The documentation will be updated to show this as deprecated, and there is no way to get this feature to work on Kit Kat without system level permissions (as iDev showed above).

Google Chrome appears now as a searchable app since its last update (v31).
System Application:
Have try like this
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" package="com.android.globalsearch" android:sharedUserId="android.uid.shared">
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.GLOBAL_SEARCH" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.SET_PREFERRED_APPLICATIONS" />
<application android:label="#string/global_search" android:process="android.process.acore">
<activity android:name=".GlobalSearch" android:permission="android.permission.GLOBAL_SEARCH_CONTROL" android:stateNotNeeded="true" android:theme="#android:style/Theme.NoDisplay" android:excludeFromRecents="true">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.SEARCH" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
</intent-filter>
<!-- This must be higher than the default priority (0), which
is what GoogleSearch uses. -->
<intent-filter android:priority="500">
<action android:name="android.search.action.GLOBAL_SEARCH" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
</intent-filter>
<meta-data android:name="android.app.searchable" android:resource="#xml/searchable" />
</activity>
<activity android:name=".SearchSettings" android:label="#string/search_settings">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
</intent-filter>
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.search.action.SEARCH_SETTINGS" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
<provider android:name=".SuggestionProvider" android:authorities="com.android.globalsearch.SuggestionProvider" android:permission="android.permission.GLOBAL_SEARCH_CONTROL" />
<provider android:name=".StatsProvider" android:authorities="com.android.globalsearch.stats" android:permission="android.permission.GLOBAL_SEARCH_CONTROL" />
<meta-data android:name="android.app.default_searchable" android:value=".GlobalSearch" />
</application>
</manifest>

How can i Integrating the MiniMob Ads SDK in my android application?

i want to add the MiniMob Ads in my android application. I have read the full documentation from the http://www.minimob.com/integration-guide.html for minimob sdk, but i still dont get it.
Now i have two queries:
We have to give the app url either of the android market or some other when we create new app using the MiniMob sdk. So how can we give that url like 1st upload the app without that minimob integration and get the url of the app and then again upload with the minimob integration.
And the 2nd thing is we have to just give that app id, app key and package name in the manifest and add the jar file in lib. and rest some code which i shown below in that activity where we want to show these Ads. Am i wright ??
<!-- MiniMob Manifest declaration start -->
<activity android:exported="false"
android:name="com.minimob.android.OptinActivity"
android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden"
android:theme="\#android:style/Theme.Translucent" />
<activity
android:taskAffinity=""
android:name="com.minimob.android.PushAds"
android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden"
android:theme="\#android:style/Theme.Translucent.NoTitleBar"
android:screenOrientation="portrait"
android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
<receiver android:name="com.minimob.android.DeliveryReceiver"
android:exported="false"/>
<receiver android:name="com.minimob.android.MessageReceiver"
android:exported="false"/>
<receiver android:name="com.minimob.android.BootReceiver"
android:exported="false">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.BOOT_COMPLETED" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.HOME" />
</intent-filter>
</receiver>
<meta-data android:name="MINIMOB_APPID" android:value="id:$appid" />
<meta-data android:name="MINIMOB_APPKEY" android:value="key:$appkey" />
<meta-data android:name="MINIMOB_APPHOST"
android:value="http://mpm.minimob.com/mobile/serve.asp" />
<meta-data
android:name="MINIMOB_ACTION" android:value="com.minimob.android.PushService$appid" />
<service android:name="com.minimob.android.PushService" android:exported="false">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="com.minimob.android.PushService$appid" />
</intent-filter>
</service>
<!-- MiniMob Manifest declaration end -->

Regarding the app URL, it is there so we can have access to an app for a number of reasons (e.g. troubleshooting). If your app is not publicly available yet you can temporarily enter a random URL and update with the correct URL later when the app has been accepted in Google Play or another app store.
About your second query, please do the things below everytime you want to integrate the Minimob SDK in an app, as it is custom built for each app and instructions will slightly differ.
Go to the Applications page in Minimob and register your app
Click on the "Download SDK" button next to your app
Open the "Instructions.txt" file
The steps are pretty much the ones you have mentioned (copy the .jar file, copy-paste the permissions and declarations in the manifest, add call in your main activity that starts the Minimob SDK).

How to add my app into the google local search?

In the android we can see that there is a default "google search" on the launcher. And I found out that using setting, we can set the searchable items. For example amazon kindle, music, or browser.
The question is, how can I add my app into the searchable items in the google search? Are there any APIs I can use?

Exactly, the first thing you do is provide a searchable.xml resource to Android. How this is done is described here.
Next, you have to declare an Activity to be searchable in your Manifest, like so:
<activity android:name="...">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.SEARCH" />
</intent-filter>
<meta-data android:name="android.app.searchable" android:resource="#xml/searchable" />
</activity>

How do I open the Search interface?

I've been following the Searchable Dictionary example pretty carefully as I'm trying to implement the search functionality in my app. Right now I simply can't seem to get the Search interface to open when I press the search button. I've added the following into my manifest and searchable.xml resource into my res folder (which I pretty much copied from the example).
<activity android:name=".main.SearchActivity"
android:theme="#android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.SEARCH" />
</intent-filter>
<meta-data android:name="android.app.searchable"
android:resource="#xml/searchable" />
</activity>
<meta-data android:name="android.app.default_searchable"
android:value=".main.SearchActivity" />
What I'm not understanding is what else do I need to do to get this to work? Is there something I should have hard coded? Thanks a lot!

Nevermind, I realized that in the searchable.xml, you can't use static strings, they have to be from the strings.xml resource. I just had to create search_label and search_hint and refer to them in the searchable.xml file. Here's the original article on that.