live searching on the actionbar's searchView

Question

i was wondering onto how we can implement/ create a list View below the search view widget on the action bar. And finally filter the list when a string is entered just like the one on the Google play store.

Answer 1

SearchManager searchManager = (SearchManager) getSystemService(Context.SEARCH_SERVICE);
    SearchView searchView = (SearchView) menu.findItem(R.id.action_search).getActionView();
    searchView.setSearchableInfo(searchManager.getSearchableInfo(getComponentName()));
    searchView.setIconifiedByDefault(true);   

    SearchView.OnQueryTextListener textChangeListener = new SearchView.OnQueryTextListener() 
    {
        @Override
        public boolean onQueryTextChange(String cs) 
        {
            YourActivity.this.adapter.getFilter().filter(cs);
            YourActivity.this.adapter.setTextToFilter(cs);
            return false;
        }

        @Override
        public boolean onQueryTextSubmit(String query) 
        {
            YourActivity.this.adapter.getFilter().filter(query);
            YourActivity.this.adapter.setTextToFilter(query);
            return false;
        }
    };
    searchView.setOnQueryTextListener(textChangeListener);

place this code in oncreateOptionMenu in your activity

it works only using arrayadapter