SearchViewĪdd the following searchable.xml file in folder “res/xml”. You can use this as a base template and add more customizations to the search view elements. Let us change the background color of the action bar. Styling Search View in Android Action Bar This is from appcompat-v7 support library. We have included an item with actionViewClass as SearchView. Put the following menu_main.xml in menu folder. intent-filter in SearchResultsActivity to identify this as searchable activity.meta-data on the MainActivity points to the Search results activity.It is important to get the AppCompat right. You have to notice the theme applied for the activity(s).ProguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'Ĭompile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: )Ĭompile ':appcompat-v7:21.0.3' Since with my personal experience for Android development, Android Studio is way better than Eclipse. For people using Eclipse+ADT, I recommend you to migrate to Android Studio as soon as possible.
To use the appcompat-v7 support library, we should add the library in Gradle dependency. I have got some fuming to do and let me reserve it for the conclusion. There are couple of configurations we need to get right or else we will be losing many hours on this. These two items gives a feeling that it is going to be simple and straight forward. First one is using AppCompat-v7 library for support and the second one is customizing the ActionBar is with a custom theme. We will focus on two main things in this tutorial. This example Android application accompanying this tutorial can be used as a base wireframe to get your searchview done. Incorporating a Search component in the Android action bar is a common use which we come quite often. There are two main things that I will handle in this tutorial. This Android tutorial is to learn about using a SearchView in action bar of an Android app. Last modified on March 26th, 2015 by Joe.
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