HB Blog 169: Search Feature In Android Using SearchView.

A widget that provides a user interface for the user to enter a search query and submit a request to a search provider. Shows a list of query suggestions or results, if available, and allows the user to pick a suggestion or result to launch into.

In this tutorial, we will see how to search a weekday from the list of 7 weekdays as list items. Here, we observer after putting character 't' in SearchView we get 'Tuesday' and 'Thursday' filtered out from the list as the end result.

Refer the below link for complete sample code:-

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Have a look on few code snippets,

//activity_main.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent"> <ListView android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" android:id="@+id/lv1" android:divider="#ad5" android:dividerHeight="2dp" android:layout_below="@+id/searchView"/> <SearchView android:id="@+id/searchView" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:queryHint="Search Here" android:iconifiedByDefault="false" android:layout_alignParentTop="true" /> </RelativeLayout>

//MainActivity.java

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package com.elitetechnologies.searchview; import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity; import android.os.Bundle; import android.widget.ArrayAdapter; import android.widget.Filter; import android.widget.ListView; import android.widget.SearchView; import android.widget.Toast; import java.util.ArrayList; public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity { SearchView searchView; ListView listView; ArrayList<String> list; ArrayAdapter<String > adapter; @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.activity_main); searchView = (SearchView) findViewById(R.id.searchView); listView = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.lv1); list = new ArrayList<>(); list.add("Sunday"); list.add("Monday"); list.add("Tuesday"); list.add("Wednesday"); list.add("Thursday"); list.add("Friday"); list.add("Saturday"); adapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1,list); listView.setAdapter(adapter); searchView.setOnQueryTextListener(new SearchView.OnQueryTextListener() { @Override public boolean onQueryTextSubmit(String query) { if(list.contains(query)){ adapter.getFilter().filter(query); }else{ Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, "No Exact Match found",Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show(); } return false; } @Override public boolean onQueryTextChange(String newText) { adapter.getFilter().filter(newText); return false; } }); } }