Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

Using SearchView on Post-Android 3.0

Now you have a search interface that works everywhere. However, it does not work in a Honeycomb-approved fashion.

Honeycomb added a new class called SearchView. SearchView is an action view – a view that may be included within the action bar. SearchView allows your entire search interface to take place within your activity’s action bar, instead of inside a dialog superimposed on your activity. That means that it has the same styling and theming as your application, which is a good and fine thing.

Using an action view is as simple as adding an android:actionViewClass attribute to your menu item tag, like so:

Listing 28.14  Add an action view to your menu (res/menu/fragment_photo_gallery.xml)

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