Should we just create our own search activity or is there one available in 1.5? As far as I know the global search feature is only 1.6+.
When creating our own activity, how would we capture the search key (hard) being pressed on a device? -Chris On Dec 7, 6:25 pm, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 1:20 PM, AJ <adam.j...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 1) drawable verses the new drawable-* ... if I don't have an icon in > > drawable.png will my application be icon-less in 1.5? Do I need to > > copy one of the new icons in there? If so, which one? > > If you want to run on pre-1.6 platforms, I would suggest putting your medium > density bitmaps in drawable/* instead of drawable-mdpi/*. 1.6 and later > will assume that these are medium density. > > > 2) search ... how does the "SEARCH" activity get raised for an > > application on SDK 1.5 devices (which don't appear to have a hardware > > search button.) Do I need to add a menu option and raise SEARCH as a > > sub-activity? [Note: I am 100% confused by search button on all > > android versions 'cos what I read says SDK 2.0 copes with virtual > > buttons, yet those devices (in emulator) seem to have hardware ones. > > What am I missing?] > > Whether or not there is a search button is really a device thing, and not a > platform version thing. For example, the G1 has a search key on its hard > keyboard, and you can assume there will be devices running 2.0 and later > that don't have a search key. If search is important for your app, you will > want to have another mechanism to get to it -- often a menu item. > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > hack...@android.com > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and > answer them. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
