Soft keyboard shows a "Go" button instead of a "Search" button when entering some text in a SearchView widget

Question

I have followed this tutorial to configure a searchview widget in the action bar. Almost everything works fine, except for the fact that the soft keyboard doesn't show the right button. Instead of showing a "Search" button the keyboard shows a "Go" button and it also takes me to another activity, which I'm sure it can't be right.

Do you have any idea how to make the keyboard show a "search" button? also why do we have to put this code in the searchable activities:

 <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.SEARCH" />

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

That's pretty easy. However, I'm not really sure why it doesn't show the right button by default:

Anyway, here's what you need to do:

In your searchable configuration add this line :

android:imeOptions="actionSearch"

So that you have something similar to this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<searchable xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" 
    android:label="@string/search_label"
    android:hint="@string/search_hint"
    android:imeOptions="actionSearch"/>

I'm sure that should fix your problem, but as I mentioned I'm not sure why the "search" button isn't shown right from the start.