Android Search Dialog onSearchRequested()

[Jenifer Private]

Hi,

I'm trying to implement the search dialog and I am unable to display the search from an Activity.

I have my main activity defined in my manifest file, this activity shows the user a list of options they have to choose from. One of the options is a Search option.

    	<activity
            android:name=".MenuListActivity"
            android:label="@string/app_name">
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>

My Search activity is defined in my manifest file like so.

		<activity android:name=".SearchActivity"
				  android:launchMode="singleTop"
		          android:label="@string/app_name">
        		<intent-filter>
		            <action android:name="android.intent.action.SEARCH" />
		        </intent-filter>
		        <meta-data android:name="android.app.searchable"
		                   android:resource="@xml/searchable"/>
		</activity>

Now my problem is when I call the onSearchRequested() from my MenuListActivity nothing happens.

            public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View itemClicked, int position, long id) {
            	String strText = items[position];
            	
            	if (strText.equalsIgnoreCase(getResources().getString(R.string.menu_item_browse))) {
            		startActivity(new Intent(MenuListActivity.this, WSMobileActivity.class));
            	} else if (strText.equalsIgnoreCase(getResources().getString(R.string.menu_item_search))) {
                       
                        // If i call it like this it doesn't work, nothing happens
                  // Please help
            		onSearchRequested();

            	} else if (strText.equalsIgnoreCase(getResources().getString(R.string.menu_item_locator))) {
            		startActivity(new Intent(MenuListActivity.this, StoreLocatorActivity.class));
            	}
            }

Please help, how do I invoke the search request from my MenuActivity?

[Ulf Dittmer]

What value does the call return? You're not overriding the default implementation, are you?

[Jenifer Private]

Currently im not doing anything with the search query other than logging it. My hope was to see the search menu, type in a search value and have my SearchActivity receive the query request.

Here is my SearchActivity class

public class SearchActivity extends ListActivity {

	@Override
	protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub
		super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
		
	    Intent intent = getIntent();

	    if (Intent.ACTION_SEARCH.equals(intent.getAction())) {
	      String query = intent.getStringExtra(SearchManager.QUERY);
	      doMySearch(query);
	    }

	}

	private void doMySearch(String query) {
		Log.i("Search String {}" , query);
	}

}

[Ulf Dittmer]

OK. But what are the answers to my two questions? :-)

[Jenifer Private]

My call will return a list of product objects. No I am not overriding the default implementation.

[Ulf Dittmer]

No, I meant the call to onSearchRequested - does it return true or false?

[Jenifer Private]

It returns "true"

[Carlos Java Ranch]

I'm stuck like you were. Did you find what the problem was?
Thanks in advance...