Search Bar Widget Not Starting Searchable Activity

I'm trying to implement a search on my android application using a search bar widget in the action bar. I am following http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/search/search-dial

Solution 1:

The tutorials seems to missing one important part. You have to add <meta-data android:name="android.app.default_searchable" android:value=".MySearchActivityName" /> inside <application> tags.

Solution 2:

I had a similar problem. I was following grokking's tutorial and the activity never opened. I tried the Indrek's solutions I that works for me.

You should be sure that you have the right meta-data under the right parent. The meta-data

<meta-data
     android:name="android.app.default_searchable"
     android:value=".NameSearchActivity" />

should be under application. The follow meta-data

<meta-data
     android:name="android.app.searchable"
     android:resource="@xml/searchable" />

should be under the search activity parameter inside AndroidManifest.xml.

In the search Activity I did what it say in the tutorial linked before for managing the activity stack. I hope that this solution works for everyone with the same problem.

Solution 3:

Pau Arlandis Martinez, thank you. Your solution works fine and tutorial with activity stack is helpful. I put into <application> section this meta-data:

<meta-data
 android:name="android.app.default_searchable"
 android:value=".NameSearchActivity" />

And I noticed that @Override onQueryTextSubmit method should return false to start searchable activity. Otherwise searchButton on virtual keyboard doesn't work.

Solution 4:

I was having trouble with the SearchView not launching the SearchActivity, it turned out to be a package/directory issue.

If the SearchableActivity is not located in the same directory as the Activity hosting your SearchView, you need to change:

searchView.setSearchableInfo(searchManager.getSearchableInfo(getComponentName()));

to

searchView.setSearchableInfo(searchManager.getSearchableInfo(newComponentName(this, SearchableActivity.class)));

Solution 5:

For anyone else who still has this issue, I also came across this issue, if the Searchable Activity extends AppCompatActivity the activity wont start, I changed it to extend Activity instead and it worked.