The suggestions that appear in the default ListView beneath my SearchView contain text that is truncated. I would like the text to be displayed in its entirety (on multiple lines if necessary).
I have come up with two possible ways to solve this but, with no examples to be found on the net, I was hoping someone on here may be able to help...
Approach #1 / Q1: How can I directly access and modify the appearance of the TextViews that hold the SUGGEST_COLUMN_TEXT_1 and SUGGEST_COLUMN_TEXT_1 text?
Approach #2 / Q2: Alternatively, SearchView has a setSuggestionsAdapter(CursorAdapter adapter) method which looks like it may be (more?) suitable than approach #1. Although I have read up on CursorAdapters and have one already implemented in my app, I'm not sure how I would configure one for the SearchView (esp. in terms of accessing the cursor), so could anyone help me out with some general guidance or a skeleton example?
Here is the existing code from my SearchViewFragment class:
public class SearchViewFragment extends Fragment {
public SearchViewFragment() {
}
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
}
@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
Bundle savedInstanceState) {
// Inflate the layout for this fragment
View fragmentView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_search_view, container, false);
// Use the Search Manager to find the SearchableInfo related to this Activity
SearchManager searchManager = (SearchManager)getActivity().getSystemService(Context.SEARCH_SERVICE);
SearchableInfo searchableInfo = searchManager.getSearchableInfo(getActivity().getComponentName());
// Bind the Activity's SearchableInfo to the Search View
SearchView searchView = (SearchView)fragmentView.findViewById(R.id.searchView);
searchView.setSearchableInfo(searchableInfo);
searchView.setIconifiedByDefault(false);
searchView.setSubmitButtonEnabled(true);
//searchView.setQueryRefinementEnabled(true);
return fragmentView;
}
}
Update: SOLVED!
Thanks to the accepted answer, I have created this code which is pretty clean and does the job well...
public class SearchViewFragment extends Fragment {
private static final String LOG_TAG = SearchViewFragment.class.getSimpleName();
public SearchViewFragment() {
}
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
setRetainInstance(true); //todo - not working - Remember search term
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
}
@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
Bundle savedInstanceState) {
// Inflate the layout for this fragment
View fragmentView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_search_view, container, false);
// Use the Search Manager to find the SearchableInfo related to this Activity
SearchManager searchManager = (SearchManager)getActivity().getSystemService(Context.SEARCH_SERVICE);
SearchableInfo searchableInfo = searchManager.getSearchableInfo(getActivity().getComponentName());
// Bind the Activity's SearchableInfo to the Search View
final SearchView searchView = (SearchView)fragmentView.findViewById(R.id.searchView);
searchView.setSearchableInfo(searchableInfo);
searchView.setIconifiedByDefault(false);
searchView.setSubmitButtonEnabled(true);
//searchView.setQueryRefinementEnabled(true);
searchView.setOnQueryTextListener(new SearchView.OnQueryTextListener() {
@Override
public boolean onQueryTextSubmit(String s) {
//DO whatever you want here on text submit in the search View
Log.d(LOG_TAG, "onQueryTextSubmit(" + s + ")");
return true;
}
@Override
public boolean onQueryTextChange(String textChange) {
Log.d(LOG_TAG, "onQueryTextChange(" + textChange + ")");
ContentResolver cr = getActivity().getContentResolver();
Uri uri = DbContentProvider.CONTENT_URI_REAL_PRODUCTS;
String[] projection = DbContentProvider.getProjectionIn(DbContentProvider.REAL_PRODUCTS_SUGGEST);
String selection = DbContentProvider.getSelection(false);
String[] selectionArgs = {Utilities.formatQueryString(textChange)};
String sortOrder = null;
Cursor cursor = cr.query(uri, projection, selection, selectionArgs, sortOrder);
Log.d(LOG_TAG, "Setting setSuggestionsAdapter. cursor: " + cursor);
searchView.setSuggestionsAdapter(new SearchSuggestionsAdapter(getActivity(), cursor));
return true;
}
});
return fragmentView;
}
private static class SearchSuggestionsAdapter extends SimpleCursorAdapter {
private static final String[] mVisible = {SearchManager.SUGGEST_COLUMN_TEXT_1, SearchManager.SUGGEST_COLUMN_TEXT_2};
private static final int[] mViewIds = {R.id.product_name, R.id.product_shelf};
public SearchSuggestionsAdapter(Context context, Cursor cursor) {
super(context, R.layout.search_view_suggestions, cursor, mVisible, mViewIds, 0);
}
/*
@Override
public void bindView(View view, Context context, Cursor cursor) {
Log.d(LOG_TAG, "bindView(" + view + ", " + context + ", " + cursor + ")");
super.bindView(view, context, cursor);
}
@Override
public View newView(Context context, Cursor cursor, ViewGroup parent) {
Log.d(LOG_TAG, "newView(" + context + ", " + cursor + ", " + parent + ")");
return super.newView(context, cursor, parent);
}
*/
}
}
And here is my search_view_suggestions.xml...
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin" >
<TextView
android:id="@+id/product_name"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Product Name placeholder"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />
<TextView
android:id="@+id/product_shelf"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Product Shelf placeholder" />
</LinearLayout>
...the result is no text truncation. :-)
It seems like you want a custom layout for your search view results. I will try to outline some clear steps below:
To make the search view to work we need to have a searchable.xml in the res/xml folder and a content provider at all times.
searchable.xml example:
<searchable xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:label="@string/app_name"
android:searchSuggestAuthority="com.example.searchProvider" ></searchable>
The label and searchSuggestAuthority are required. The searchSuggestAuthority should point to the location of the content provider
Add the intent-filter meta-data to the activity in the manifest. Example:
<meta-data android:name="android.app.searchable" android:resource="@xml/searchable"/>
In the activity/fragment, get your searchView object and pass it the custom adapter for displaying the custom layout.
searchView.setSearchableInfo(manager.getSearchableInfo(getActivity().getComponentName()));
final SearchView.OnQueryTextListener queryTextListener = new SearchView.OnQueryTextListener() {
@Override
public boolean onQueryTextSubmit(String s) {
//DO whatever you want here on text submit in the search View
return true;
}
@Override
public boolean onQueryTextChange(String textChange) {
searchView.setSuggestionsAdapter(new ExampleAdapter(context,yourData));
}
};
Make sure the custom adapter extends the cursorAdapter.
public class ExampleAdapter extends CursorAdapter {
private Cursor cursor;
private TextView text;
public ExampleAdapter(Context context, Cursor cursor) {
super(context, cursor);
this.cursor= cursor;
}
@Override
public void bindView(View view, Context context, Cursor cursor) {
text.setText((cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(YOUR_STRING_KEY));));
}
@Override
public View newView(Context context, Cursor cursor, ViewGroup parent) {
LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater) context.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.item, parent, false);
text = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.text);
return view;
}
}
In the above code R.layout.item refers to your custom xml file that you can use to inflate in the searchview results.
Make sure you are using a content provider though. The searchView doesn't work without one. It doesn't matter even if you are only caching the data on a temporary basis.
Hope this helps!