Hello, Surtax.
Maybe i'm late with the solution of this problem, nevertheless.
You've to include in searchable.xml an attribute:
android:searchMode="queryRewriteFromText", for more information about
searchModes look at 
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/SearchManager.html#SearchabilityMetadata

On 18 сен, 10:44, SurtaX <garylo....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi for those who are familiar with thesearchbar this would be aquickanswer 
> (hopefully). If you look @ the searchable dictionary
> example (http://developer.android.com/guide/samples/
> SearchableDictionary/index.html) it uses a content provider to
> populate suggestions. That works great however when I use the
> navigation keys to focus on certain suggestions this does not update
> my currentsearchstring. And also how is it possible that instead of
> launching thesearchstraight away, when a person clicks on a
> suggestion it only replaces the currentsearchquery. An example may
> help better understand the question.
>
> PressSearch
> Use keyboard to enter the letter 'a' in thesearchbox
> The suggestions "apple" "altogether" "apricot" are shown
>
> I use the down navigation key to get to" apricot", however the text in
> thesearchboxis still just "a", I want it to become "apricot"
>
> And also when I press apricot on the suggestion I dont want it to
> launch the intent but rather just replace the text insearchboxto
> the text selected, and only actually launch the intent when the user
> clicks thesearchbutton/enter key.
>
> I'm sure its just a value I need to set somewhere but I cant seem to
> find it in the documentation.
>
> Thanks,
> Gary

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