Android: How to get search suggestions asynchronously from the web?

Question

I have created a searchable activity. Now, i want to add search suggestions that are taken from web service. I want to get those suggestions asynchronously. According to Adding Custom Suggestions I need to override the query method, do my suggestion search, build my own MatrixCursor and return it. but this is the problem, my request for getting the suggestion is an asynchronically one. so when result is back from net it out side of query method's scope.

Answer 1

Here is an example of SearchView with suggestions coming from a network service (I used Retrofit):

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu_search_activity, menu);

        final SearchView searchView = (SearchView) MenuItemCompat.getActionView(menu.findItem(R.id.search));

        final CursorAdapter suggestionAdapter = new SimpleCursorAdapter(this,
                android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1,
                null,
                new String[]{SearchManager.SUGGEST_COLUMN_TEXT_1},
                new int[]{android.R.id.text1},
                0);
        final List<String> suggestions = new ArrayList<>();

        searchView.setSuggestionsAdapter(suggestionAdapter);
        searchView.setOnSuggestionListener(new SearchView.OnSuggestionListener() {
            @Override
            public boolean onSuggestionSelect(int position) {
                return false;
            }

            @Override
            public boolean onSuggestionClick(int position) {
                searchView.setQuery(suggestions.get(position), false);
                searchView.clearFocus();
                doSearch(suggestions.get(position));
                return true;
            }
        });

        searchView.setOnQueryTextListener(new SearchView.OnQueryTextListener() {

            @Override
            public boolean onQueryTextSubmit(String query) {
                return false;
            }

            @Override
            public boolean onQueryTextChange(String newText) {

                MyApp.autocompleteService.search(newText, new Callback<Autocomplete>() {
                    @Override
                    public void success(Autocomplete autocomplete, Response response) {
                        suggestions.clear();
                        suggestions.addAll(autocomplete.suggestions);

                        String[] columns = {
                                BaseColumns._ID,
                                SearchManager.SUGGEST_COLUMN_TEXT_1,
                                SearchManager.SUGGEST_COLUMN_INTENT_DATA
                        };

                        MatrixCursor cursor = new MatrixCursor(columns);

                        for (int i = 0; i < autocomplete.suggestions.size(); i++) {
                            String[] tmp = {Integer.toString(i), autocomplete.suggestions.get(i), autocomplete.suggestions.get(i)};
                            cursor.addRow(tmp);
                        }
                        suggestionAdapter.swapCursor(cursor);
                    }

                    @Override
                    public void failure(RetrofitError error) {
                        Toast.makeText(SearchFoodActivity.this, error.getMessage(), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                        Log.w("autocompleteService", error.getMessage());
                    }
                });
                return false;
            }
        });

        return true;
}