Hello Marty, Unfortunately, the search dialog was not designed to be extended in this way. This was not meant to "protect" it so much as a consequence of the data-driven design of the Search system.
If you can describe some of the changes you have in mind, perhaps we can assist with some good suggestions. *Please* don't try to hack into it via reflection. We cannot guarantee compatibility across multiple phone software versions. Andy Stadler (Google) On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Marty Wang <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Android folks, > > We currently want to customize the default Android search dialog UI to > have our own look&feel. After looking into Android source code, we > found out that two things of Android preventing us from doing it. > > 1. SearchManager declares an instance of SearchDialog as one of its > private fields > 2. SearchDialog is not compiled into the SDK. We are using 1.0R2. > > As for problem 1, we actually could work it around by reflection. The > following is our code snippet to expose the private search dialog > field of SearchManager > > SearchManager searchManager = > (SearchManager)getSystemService(Context.SEARCH_SERVICE); > > try > { > Class<?> searchManagerClass = > searchManager.getClass(); > Field searchDialogField = > searchManagerClass.getDeclaredField("mSearchDialog"); > searchDialogField.setAccessible > (true); > searchDialogField.set > (searchManager, new OurCustomSearchDialog(context)); > } catch (SecurityException e) > { > // TODO Auto-generated catch > block > e.printStackTrace(); > } catch (NoSuchFieldException e) > { > // TODO Auto-generated catch > block > e.printStackTrace(); > } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) > { > // TODO Auto-generated catch > block > e.printStackTrace(); > } catch (IllegalAccessException e) > { > // TODO Auto-generated catch > block > e.printStackTrace(); > } > However, when the code comes to the line > > searchDialogField.set(searchManager, new OurCustomSearchDialog > (context));, > > it brings up the second problem. Because SearchDialog is not in the > SDK, we have no way to create our custom search dialog by subclassing > it. Then the line is actually not possible. > > Since the approach above cannot achieve our goal, I wonder if any of > you guys happen to know how to customize the default Android search > dialog, or at least why Google takes measures like that to protect > SearchDialog from being customized. Thanks! > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
