Search function in android?

Question

My array is like {"Samsung Tab","Samsung Note","Samsung Galaxy","Samsung Galaxy Pro","Nokia Lumia","Nokia 5130","Sony Xperia"} some thing like that.i have edit text type GALAXY and click the button i have GO i want to show only Samsung Galaxy , Samsung Galaxy Pro in next activity list view.any know please help me.

Answer 1

There are some ways to do it, Here is one way ,you can create a custom method something like below.

 public ArrayList<String> getSearchedItems(String searchString){
 ArrayList<String>  list = new ArrayList<String>();

 for(int i = 0; i<array.length ;i++) { // array is the String array or list which contains all the Phone model names you want to search in.
  if((array[i].toLowerCase()).contains(searchString.toLowerCase())) { // contains method will check if user enterred string is available in your Model names
    list.add(array[i]);
    }
 }
 return list; // list of strings/names containing search String.
}

Call this method in your go button press, or from next Activity. to get list of names.