SearchManager

Intent extra data key: Use this key with Intent.ACTION_SEARCH and content.Intent.getIntExtra() to obtain the keycode that the user used to trigger this query. It will be zero if the user simply pressed the "GO" button on the search UI. This is primarily used in conjunction with the keycode attribute in the actionkey element of your searchable.xml configuration file.

Intent extra data key: Use this key with Intent.ACTION_SEARCH and content.Intent.getStringExtra() to obtain the action message that was defined for a particular search action key and/or suggestion. It will be null if the search was launched by typing "enter", touched the the "GO" button, or other means not involving any action key.

Intent extra data key: Use this key with Intent.ACTION_SEARCH and content.Intent.getBundleExtra() to obtain any additional app-specific data that was inserted by the activity that launched the search.

Boolean extra data key for a suggestion provider to return in getExtras() to indicate that the search is not complete yet. This can be used by the search UI to indicate that a search is in progress. The suggestion provider can return partial results this way and send a change notification on the cursor when more results are available.

Intent extra data key: This key will be used for the extra populated by the SUGGEST_COLUMN_INTENT_EXTRA_DATA column.

Boolean extra data key for ACTION_WEB_SEARCH intents. If true, this search should open a new browser window, rather than using an existing one.

Boolean extra data key for INTENT_ACTION_GLOBAL_SEARCH intents. If true, the initial query should be selected when the global search activity is started, so that the user can easily replace it with another query.

Extra data key for ACTION_WEB_SEARCH. If set, the value must be a PendingIntent. The search activity handling the ACTION_WEB_SEARCH intent will fill in and launch the pending intent. The data URI will be filled in with an http or https URI, and EXTRA_HEADERS may be filled in.

Flag to specify that the entry can be used for query refinement, i.e., the query text in the search field can be replaced with the text in this entry, when a query refinement icon is clicked. The suggestion list should show such a clickable icon beside the entry.

Use this flag as a bit-field for SUGGEST_COLUMN_FLAGS.

Intent action for starting the global search activity. The global search provider should handle this intent. Supported extra data keys: QUERY, EXTRA_SELECT_QUERY, APP_DATA.

Intent action broadcasted to inform that the searchables list or default have changed. Components should handle this intent if they cache any searchable data and wish to stay up to date on changes.

Intent action for starting the global search settings activity. The global search provider should handle this intent.

Intent action broadcasted to inform that the search settings have changed in some way. Either searchables have been enabled or disabled, or a different web search provider has been chosen.

Intent action for starting a web search provider's settings activity. Web search providers should handle this intent if they have provider-specific settings to implement.

Intent action to be broadcast to inform that the global search provider has changed.

This is a shortcut definition for the default menu key to use for invoking search. See Menu.Item.setAlphabeticShortcut() for more information.

This is a shortcut definition for the default menu key to use for invoking search. See Menu.Item.setAlphabeticShortcut() for more information.

Intent extra data key: Use this key with content.Intent.getStringExtra() to obtain the query string from Intent.ACTION_SEARCH.

MIME type for shortcut validation. You'll use this in your suggestions content provider in the getType() function.

Column name for suggestions cursor. Optional. This column is used to specify additional flags per item. Multiple flags can be specified.

Must be one of FLAG_QUERY_REFINEMENT or 0 to indicate no flags.

Column name for suggestions cursor. Unused - can be null or column can be omitted.

Column name for suggestions cursor. Optional. If your cursor includes this column, then all suggestions will be provided in a format that includes space for two small icons, one at the left and one at the right of each suggestion. The data in the column must be a resource ID of a drawable, or a URI in one of the following formats:

• content (SCHEME_CONTENT)
• android.resource (SCHEME_ANDROID_RESOURCE)
• file (SCHEME_FILE)

Column name for suggestions cursor. Optional. If your cursor includes this column, then all suggestions will be provided in a format that includes space for two small icons, one at the left and one at the right of each suggestion. The data in the column must be a resource ID of a drawable, or a URI in one of the following formats:

• content (SCHEME_CONTENT)
• android.resource (SCHEME_ANDROID_RESOURCE)
• file (SCHEME_FILE)

Column name for suggestions cursor. Optional. If this column exists and this element exists at the given row, this is the action that will be used when forming the suggestion's intent. If the element is not provided, the action will be taken from the android:searchSuggestIntentAction field in your XML metadata. At least one of these must be present for the suggestion to generate an intent. Note: If your action is the same for all suggestions, it is more efficient to specify it using XML metadata and omit it from the cursor.

Column name for suggestions cursor. Optional. If this column exists and this element exists at the given row, this is the data that will be used when forming the suggestion's intent. If the element is not provided, the data will be taken from the android:searchSuggestIntentData field in your XML metadata. If neither source is provided, the Intent's data field will be null. Note: If your data is the same for all suggestions, or can be described using a constant part and a specific ID, it is more efficient to specify it using XML metadata and omit it from the cursor.

Column name for suggestions cursor. Optional. If this column exists and this element exists at the given row, then "/" and this value will be appended to the data field in the Intent. This should only be used if the data field has already been set to an appropriate base string.

Column name for suggestions cursor. Optional. If this column exists and this element exists at the given row, this is the data that will be used when forming the suggestion's intent. If not provided, the Intent's extra data field will be null. This column allows suggestions to provide additional arbitrary data which will be included as an extra under the key EXTRA_DATA_KEY.

Column name for suggestions cursor. Optional. This column may be used to specify the time in System.currentTImeMillis() (wall time in UTC) when an item was last accessed within the results-providing application. If set, this may be used to show more-recently-used items first.

Column name for suggestions cursor. Required if action is ACTION_SEARCH, optional otherwise. If this column exists and this element exists at the given row, this is the data that will be used when forming the suggestion's query.

Column name for suggestions cursor. Optional. This column is used to indicate whether a search suggestion should be stored as a shortcut, and whether it should be refreshed. If missing, the result will be stored as a shortcut and never validated. If set to SUGGEST_NEVER_MAKE_SHORTCUT, the result will not be stored as a shortcut. Otherwise, the shortcut id will be used to check back for an up to date suggestion using SUGGEST_URI_PATH_SHORTCUT.

Column name for suggestions cursor. Optional. This column is used to specify that a spinner should be shown in lieu of an icon2 while the shortcut of this suggestion is being refreshed.

Column name for suggestions cursor. Required. This is the primary line of text that will be presented to the user as the suggestion.

Column name for suggestions cursor. Optional. If your cursor includes this column, then all suggestions will be provided in a two-line format. The second line of text is in a much smaller appearance.

Column name for suggestions cursor. Optional. This is a URL that will be shown as the second line of text instead of SUGGEST_COLUMN_TEXT_2. This is a separate column so that the search UI knows to display the text as a URL, e.g. by using a different color. If this column is absent, or has the value null, SUGGEST_COLUMN_TEXT_2 will be used instead.

MIME type for suggestions data. You'll use this in your suggestions content provider in the getType() function.

Column value for suggestion column SUGGEST_COLUMN_SHORTCUT_ID when a suggestion should not be stored as a shortcut in global search.

Query parameter added to suggestion queries to limit the number of suggestions returned. This limit is only advisory and suggestion providers may chose to ignore it.

Uri path for queried suggestions data. This is the path that the search manager will use when querying your content provider for suggestions data based on user input (e.g. looking for partial matches). Typically you'll use this with a URI matcher.

Uri path for shortcut validation. This is the path that the search manager will use when querying your content provider to refresh a shortcutted suggestion result and to check if it is still valid. When asked, a source may return an up to date result, or no result. No result indicates the shortcut refers to a no longer valid sugggestion.

Intent extra data key: Use this key with content.Intent.getStringExtra() to obtain the query string typed in by the user. This may be different from the value of QUERY if the intent is the result of selecting a suggestion. In that case, QUERY will contain the value of SUGGEST_COLUMN_QUERY for the suggestion, and USER_QUERY will contain the string typed by the user.

Gets the name of the global search activity.

Gets information about a searchable activity.

Returns a list of the searchable activities that can be included in global search.

This method will be invoked when the dialog is canceled.

This method will be invoked when the dialog is dismissed.

Set or clear the callback that will be invoked whenever the search UI is canceled.

Set or clear the callback that will be invoked whenever the search UI is dismissed.

Launch search UI.

The search manager will open a search widget in an overlapping window, and the underlying activity may be obscured. The search entry state will remain in effect until one of the following events:

• The user completes the search. In most cases this will launch a search intent.
• The user uses the back, home, or other keys to exit the search.
• The application calls the stopSearch() method, which will hide the search window and return focus to the activity from which it was launched.

Most applications will not use this interface to invoke search. The primary method for invoking search is to call Activity.onSearchRequested() or Activity.startSearch().

Terminate search UI.

Typically the user will terminate the search UI by launching a search or by canceling. This function allows the underlying application or activity to cancel the search prematurely (for any reason).

This function can be safely called at any time (even if no search is active.)

Similar to startSearch(String, boolean, ComponentName, Bundle, boolean) but actually fires off the search query after invoking the search dialog. Made available for testing purposes.