Android Development with Kotlin

Character search

Another behavior we need to implement is character search. Here is the use case definition: after starting the application, the user can search for a character by their name.

To add it, we are going to add EditText to the activity_main layout:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> 
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" 
   xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto" 
   xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools" 
   android:id="@+id/charactersView" 
   android:layout_width="match_parent" 
   android:layout_height="match_parent" 
   android:background="@android:color/white" 
   android:fitsSystemWindows="true"> 
 
<!-- Dummy item to prevent EditText from receiving  focus on initial load --> <LinearLayout ...