This project is deprecated

It's not been maintained for well over half a year and is formally discontinued. There are better alternatives now, such as SearchView and FloatingSearchView

Android Persistent Search Library

A library that implements the persistent search bar seen on apps such as Google Now, Google Maps and Google Play

Usage

Android Studio: Add the Sonatype repository if you have not already:

maven {
        url "https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots"
    }

Import it as a dependency:

compile 'com.quinny898.library.persistentsearch:library:1.1.0-SNAPSHOT'

Eclipse: Import it as a library project

In your layout:

<com.quinny898.library.persistentsearch.SearchBox
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
  android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:id="@+id/searchbox"
        />

Please include this after any elements you wish to be hidden by it in a releativelayout.

Absolute requirements in the activity code

In your onCreate/onCreateView (activity or fragment):

search.enableVoiceRecognition(this);

And in the same class:

@Override
  public void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
    if (isAdded() && requestCode == SearchBox.VOICE_RECOGNITION_CODE && resultCode == getActivity().RESULT_OK) {
      ArrayList<String> matches = data
          .getStringArrayListExtra(RecognizerIntent.EXTRA_RESULTS);
      search.populateEditText(matches);
    }
    super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);
}

More on implementation:

search = (SearchBox) findViewById(R.id.searchbox);
for(int x = 0; x < 10; x++){
 SearchResult option = new SearchResult("Result " + Integer.toString(x), getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.ic_history));
 search.addSearchable(option);
}  
search.setLogoText("My App");
search.setMenuListener(new MenuListener(){

  @Override
  public void onMenuClick() {
   //Hamburger has been clicked
   Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, "Menu click", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();    
  }
   
 });
search.setSearchListener(new SearchListener(){

 @Override
 public void onSearchOpened() {
  //Use this to tint the screen
 }

 @Override
 public void onSearchClosed() {
  //Use this to un-tint the screen
 }

 @Override
 public void onSearchTermChanged() {
  //React to the search term changing
  //Called after it has updated results
 }

 @Override
 public void onSearch(String searchTerm) {
  Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, searchTerm +" Searched", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
  
 }
 
 @Override
 public void onResultClick(SearchResult result){
  //React to a result being clicked
 }
 
 
 @Override
 public void onSearchCleared() {
    
 }
   
});

##Showing from a MenuItem

search.revealFromMenuItem(R.id.action_search, this);

Note that when a search occurs, the box closes. You should react to this in onSearch, maybe set your toolbar title?

Custom

Set the logo text color:

search.setLogoTextColor(Color.parse("#000000"));

SearchResult

This is a class that holds two parameters - Title and icon
The title is displayed as a suggested result and will be used for searching, the icon is displayed to the left of the title in the suggestions (eg. a history icon)
You can make a SearchResult as follows

new SearchResult("Title", getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.icon));

All usage methods

See here for the documentation: http://quinny898.co.uk/PersistentSearch/

Licence

Copyright 2015 Kieron Quinn

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.

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