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Integrating Google search to an Android EditText

Even a Snippet of an android code to Integrate Google Search into an Edit text will be really useful, according to my requirement i don't want the google search data or whatever but only the dropdown so that it will b easier for people to type and don't have to waste time :)

You can see about the componenent is AutoCompleteTextView
An editable text view that shows completion suggestions automatically while the user is typing. The list of suggestions is displayed in a drop down menu from which the user can choose an item to replace the content of the edit box with.

Advice needed with items in a customised list view

I was working on an android project, the project includes an activity which has a edit text field, the edit text field when filled by the user should be entered in the customised list view along with the date the entry was made,
I can't decide as how should I create a new object for each edit text field and how should I display the date for each edit field?,could somebody please help me with this, I'd really appreciate the effort.Thanks

Try to use a ListActivity. You would be able to display only the text previously entered, with or without the date :)
You can have more information in the documentation : ListActivity
And in the ressources tutorial : Hello ListView
Do not hesitate to post a bit of code : it would be easier to help :)

How can implement search bar in android?

I am working in android. i am trying to display name of university using listView.
my list view is looking like this.
Now i want to add a search bar on the top of this list view. if i press A in search bar then this list view should display all the name of university start with A, if i press some other character then according university name must be displayed.
Please tell me how can implement this. Is any way to make search bar in android. I have seen in iPhone, it works very efficiently in iPhone. Please help me how can make this search bar ?
Thank you in advance...

This may be the long way. but this is just an idea..
I think you have to create a layout xml file with one EditText and ListView. Inside activity you have to listen for textChange in EditText and then probably you have to filter your ListAdapterbased on the text entered by the user and bind it with ListView.
See the complete example here : http://www.androidpeople.com/android-listview-searchbox-sort-items

You can use setTextFilterEnabled(true) on your list view.

I think this may help you to get an idea. http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/views/hello-autocomplete.html

What is the difference between text field types

I am new to android. I was stuck on a problem but I finally solved it.
I was using a TextField instead of CompleteTextViewField so whats the difference between these two and when should I use each one of them?
Thanks

Neither of those classes you mention (TextField, CompleteTextViewField) exist. Do you mean EditText and AutoCompleteTextView? I think the documentation explains it pretty well:
[AutoCompleteTextView is] An editable text view that shows completion suggestions automatically while the user is typing. The list of suggestions is displayed in a drop down menu from which the user can choose an item to replace the content of the edit box with.
That is, use it rather than a normal EditText if you have a set of common autocompletions for what gets entered in the box. The docs also link to a full sample that shows how to populate that list of suggestions with an Adapter.

Android:Quick Search Box - Adding Custom Suggestions

I am a newbie to android and trying to implement Quick Search Dialog for my application.
Actually, in my application I have an activity
1. where I have a Edit text and Search Button next to it
2. Add Button and a Employee Table below it.
Whenever the user enters the search string in the EditText and clicks the Search button , I am calling the Quick Search Box and luckily it opens with the Search and here the user can see the given search query.
Till this, every thing works perfectly as I want.
But what I want is:
On-Clicking the Search button,the search query is displayed in the QSB and what I want is to display custom suggestions based on the search query and selecting the valid data , it should be saved in the Employee table.
Now I want Custom Suggestions to be displayed in a list view based on the search query.
How do I proceed to achieve this.
Please provide links for Quick search Box custom suggestions also.
Thanks and Regards,
Fazal Ahamed B

This is described here: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/search/adding-custom-suggestions.html