I want to build an app that has sherlock action bar and a search view inside it. However, i want this searchview to have autocomplete feature like what autocompleteTextView has. Is there any straight forward implementation to do that using searchview alone? or should i use autocompleteTextView inside action bar to do this? I found several posts out there, but none of them are helping me. Those posts talk only about creating a autocompleteTextView , but i want search view to have this functionality. Any idea how can it be done?
For this I have Create one Layout with AutoCompleteTextView
and add it in ActionBar
its call Custom layout in ActionBar.
After that I have Create Adapter with android.R.layout.simple_dropdown_item_1line
. set it in AutoCompleteTextView
.
check Below Code:
package com.example.testapp;
import android.annotation.TargetApi;
import android.app.ActionBar;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Context;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;
import android.widget.AutoCompleteTextView;
@TargetApi(11)
public class MainActivity extends Activity {
private static final String[] COUNTRIES = new String[] { "Belgium",
"France", "France_", "Italy", "Germany", "Spain" };
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
ActionBar actionBar = getActionBar();
actionBar.setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
actionBar.setDisplayShowCustomEnabled(true);
// actionBar.setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);
// actionBar.setIcon(R.drawable.ic_action_search);
LayoutInflater inflator = (LayoutInflater) this
.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
View v = inflator.inflate(R.layout.actionbar, null);
actionBar.setCustomView(v);
ArrayAdapter<String> adapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this,
android.R.layout.simple_dropdown_item_1line, COUNTRIES);
AutoCompleteTextView textView = (AutoCompleteTextView) v
.findViewById(R.id.editText1);
textView.setAdapter(adapter);
}
}
Your Layout:
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:gravity="center" >
<TextView
android:id="@+id/textView1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Action Bar:"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium"
android:textColor="#FFFFFF" />
<AutoCompleteTextView
android:id="@+id/editText1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:ems="10"
android:imeOptions="actionSearch"
android:inputType="textAutoComplete|textAutoCorrect"
android:textColor="#FFFFFF" >
<requestFocus />
</AutoCompleteTextView>
</LinearLayout>
For More Details check this articals: one, two and three
Best Luck!