Hi,
could you help me to understand search?
Consider this simplified example: Let's say I have a contacts app with two
activities: ShowContactActivity and ShowContactsListActivity.
I think that both activities should be search enabled when the user types,
but other than that ShowContactsListActivity doesn't play a role anymore in
the remaining post. I can set this up in the respective onCreate() method
(setDefaultKeyMode ( DEFAULT KEYS
SEARCH LOCAL )).
I want ShowContactActivity to be the target of a search, so that it displays
a single selected search result. I don't want to deal with the search
results presentation (for a list of hits) myself. The floating search window
is sufficient for that.
So in the application tag I add this:
<meta-data
android:name="android.app.default_searchable"
android:value=".ShowContactActivity" />
Which I think would enable all my activities for search and directs the
results from Global Search to ShowContactActivity, right?
As part of the declaration of ShowContactActivity I add:
<intent-filter>
<action
android:name="com.mysample.VIEW" />
<category
android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
</intent-filter>
<intent-filter>
<action
android:name="android.intent.action.SEARCH" />
<category
android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
</intent-filter>
As well as the reference to the metadata:
<meta-data
android:name="android.app.searchable"
android:resource="@xml/searchable" />
In the searchable I got this:
<searchable
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android";
android:label="search label, never seen used?!l"
android:hint="search hint, never seen used?!"
android:searchSuggestAuthority="contacts"
android:searchSuggestIntentAction="com.mysample.VIEW"
android:includeInGlobalSearch="true"
android:searchSettingsDescription="The subtitle of the search provider
in the global settings">
</searchable>
And also in the manifest I add this:
<provider
android:name=".SearchProvider"
android:authorities="contacts"
android:syncable="false" />
The search provider returns a cursor with this columns: _id,
suggest_column_text_1, suggest_column_text_2, suggest_column_intent_data.
So far this works wonderful for the local search.
Now on to my questions.
I am wondering why my ShowContactActivity is sometimes called with the
SEARCH action when invoked from global search. I think I am supposed to deal
with the query, but I really don't want to. I am happy with the floating
search hits box.
What happens is that I click on more results in the floating search box,
then my activity is called with SEARCH (and doesn't deal with it) and when I
hit BACK I get to the list of hits that I wanted to see in the first place.
Why is the name of my search provider in the settings is the label of my
ShowContactActivity?
Cheers,
Mariano
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