Android 9 Development Cookbook - Third Edition

How it works...

Since the New Project Wizard uses the AppCompat library, our example uses the support library API. Using the support library provides the greatest device compatibility as it allows the use of modern features (such as the Action Bar) on older versions of the Android OS. This can sometimes provide an extra challenge as often the official documentation focuses on the framework API. Although usually the support library closely follows the framework API, they are not always interchangeable. The Search UI pattern is one of those situations, so it's worth paying extra attention to the steps outlined previously.

We start by creating string resources for the Search View (which is declared later in step 6.)

In step 3, we create the ...