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Looking for ideas to implement SearchView in Android. I am using Single Activity Approach in my app. I was following this doc : https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/search/search-dialog

But this adds the overhead of adding new activity.

Currently in my app I have bunch of screens and only on one screen I need to show SearchView.

Recently, I have come across the documentation for search dialogue provided by the Android developer. In their documentation, they mentioned about a searchable.xml which is a configuration file for something that I don't get it. I know that you are supposed to reference this file in the manifest and that's about it.

Addtionally, this post practically a repost of this. But there wasn't any answer so I hope it can be answered here.

Questions

My question is, does this searchable.xml a configuration file for your searchView where you can implement this searchView anywhere in your activity layout ?

Is there any useful reference I can refer ? Most of the videos I came across such as Coding In Flow and Edmt Dev do not use this xml file at all

I have an activity with a floating action button that triggers a search dialog. When the search dialog pops up, I am hiding the floating action button by overriding onSearchRequested().

After adding Firebase In-App Messaging SDK to my build.gradle, I keep getting this error message after building my project Program type already present: com.google.common.annotations.Beta I have tried most the solutions proposed here and here but it didn't work for me.

Below are the dependency libraries I am using on the project

After I updated my Android Studio and gradle to the version 3.3.0 I can't compile my App. The views provided by the Kotlin Android Extensions doesn't work. I am having compilations errors with 'Unresolved reference: xxx' for my all views referenced.

On previously version from gradle and Android Studio my code works. I have tried to clean and rebuild my project, invalidate caches and restart the Android Studio and create a new project and copy and paste my code to it, but all this doesn't work.

My project .gradle contains:

My project was working. But when I tried to open the project, android studio gave error:

Could not find method compile() for arguments [com.google.gms:google-services:4.2.0] on object of type org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.dsl.dependencies.DefaultDependencyHandler.

Project gradle file are like below:

First, I will explain to you what I want to do. Then, I will show you what I've already done. Finally, I will ask for your help about what I will implement.

My aim is to have a Toolbar like the Playstore:

When you click on the burger menu, it displays the menu. When you click on the input, it displays changes the icon and it displays keyboard:

I followed the documentation (https://developer.android.com/training/appbar/ + https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/search/search-dialog + https://developer.android.com/training/search/setup). Thus, I have:

1. res/menu/action_bar_menu.xml containing my SearchView widget

I am trying to follow the search interface manual from android.com. I have few problems and I am not sure what I did wrong exactly.

If you want to look, here is the project as zip file.

1- The android:hint is not visible when I touch search icon. It comes empty. Why? If I set it programmatically it works eg. searchView.setQueryHint(getString(R.string.search_hint)); Why it doesn't work from XML?

2- Search field does not get focus and keyboard does not appear automatically when I touch search icon. I need to touch to the search textfield to get focus. I believe it should get focus automatically?

3- When I write something and touch the search icon on the keyboard. I do not see any log entries logged at logcat window. What is missing?

4- (SOLVED) I tried android:iconifiedByDefault="false" in XML and also searchView.setIconifiedByDefault(false); and it is always iconified when I start the application. Why is that happening?

• I found out that iI need to remove collapseActionView from app:showAsAction otherwise setIconifiedByDefault(false) does not work. Also if you remove collapseActionView and set setIconifiedByDefault(false) then it never collapses.

I am guessing I missed something somewhere but I am not sure exactly what...

So below are the steps I followed:

I started a new project with 'Basic Activity' in Android Studio 3. It has a ready toolbar and 'Hello World' in the middle.

Then to xml folder I added the searchable.xml file with contents:

Android general search functionality seems to have nice system support for showing search suggestions like recent query suggestions and custom suggestions, in addition to voice search.

This framework requires one to declare a search activity. That activity gets the query in an intent, and presents search results to a ListView.

I have two questions on this:

1- I want to do the search in the current activity (I have a searchview on appbar). So, will that activity be restarted? That would be weird. Should I send to an unvisible activity and get results back? Is that possible?

2- Can I use RecyclerView instead of ListView? I thought ListView is deprecated in favour of RecyclerView.