android: get text of a search suggestion clicked item

Question

I am using the officical Android sample code SearchableDictionary, that gives us a search interface, where you can search for a word and while the user types, suggestions are displayed in a dropdown listview.

When a search suggestion is clicked, an Intent is sent to your searchable activity. The Action field of this Intent is described though your searchable XML like this:

<searchable 
...
    android:searchSuggestIntentAction = "android.intent.action.VIEW">

and then in the searchable activity:

Intent intent = getIntent();
if (Intent.ACTION_VIEW.equals(intent.getAction()) {
    //a suggestion was clicked... do something about it...
    Intent myIntent = new Intent(this, NewActivity.class);
    myIntent.setData(intent.getData());
    startActivity(myIntent);
    finish();
}

my problem is that my NEWACTIVITY requires an id to display the relevant data. this id i can get by getting the text of the item that was clicked (like we get by using getItemAtPosition(pos); ) [a string value]. How do i get it?

Answer 1

I think a security way to get the String query when the user click in a suggestion is by getting the QUERY from the intent android automatically pass when a search is made.

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
    // 1. Handle the intent on activity startup
    handleIntent(getIntent());
}

/**
* This method is necessary if you set android:launchMode="singleTop"
* in your activity Manifest. See the explanation below about singleTop.
* @param query : string the user searched for.
*/ 
@Override
protected void onNewIntent(Intent intent) {
    setIntent(intent);
    handleIntent(intent);
}

private void handleIntent(Intent intent) {

    // ------------------------------------------------------
    //                     ANSWER IS HERE
    // ------------------------------------------------------
    if (Intent.ACTION_SEARCH.equals(intent.getAction())) {

        // This will get the String from the clicked suggestion
        String query = intent.getStringExtra(SearchManager.QUERY);
        displaySearchResults(query);
    }
}

/**
* 1. Dismiss the KeyBoard and the SearchView (searchMenuItem.collapseActionView();)
* 2. Switch the container to another fragment;
* 3. Send the query to this new fragment;
*/
private void displaySearchResults(String query) {
    dismissKeyBoardAndSearchView();

    // Open SearchShowFragment and display the results
    SearchShowFragment searchShowFragment = new SearchShowFragment();
    Bundle bundle = new Bundle();
    bundle.putString(SearchShowFragment.QUERY, query);
    searchShowFragment.setArguments(bundle);
    switchToFragment(searchShowFragment);
}

It is recomended to set singleTop in your activity manifest. Because, if the user make several searches, one followed by the other, it will prevent the system to create the activity several times, one in the top of the other. Imagine the user make 10 searches and then he start to press the back button, it would go back through all the 10 disturbing steps to reach the start.

<activity android:name=".MainActivity"
        android:launchMode="singleTop">
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.SEARCH" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
        </intent-filter>
        <meta-data
            android:name="android.app.searchable"
            android:resource="@xml/searchable" />
    </activity>

OBSERVATIONS: I am using a single Activity (MainActivity) and two Fragments, the first fragment display all the items and the second fragment display the items by using the query search. The logic to handle the query, the intent, searchview and so on is all made in the MainActivity and the fragments only receives the query and perform the search.

HOW TO HANDLE THE INTENT WHEN THE USER TYPE IT

Note that this will take care only when the user clicks in a suggestions, this will not work when the user type a word and press enter.

For that, use the method below in your onCreateOptionsMenu().

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    // Inflates the options menu from XML
    MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
    inflater.inflate(R.menu.options_menu, menu);

    // Get the SearchView and set the searchable configuration
    final SearchManager searchManager = (SearchManager) getSystemService(Context.SEARCH_SERVICE);
    searchMenuItem = menu.findItem(R.id.menu_search);
    searchView = (SearchView) searchMenuItem.getActionView();
    // Assumes the current activity is the searchable activity
    searchView.setSearchableInfo(searchManager.getSearchableInfo(getComponentName()));
    searchView.setQueryRefinementEnabled(true);

    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
    //                             Typing a Query
    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
    searchView.setOnQueryTextListener(new SearchView.OnQueryTextListener() {
        @Override
        public boolean onQueryTextSubmit(String query) {

            // Save the query to display recent queries
            SearchRecentSuggestions suggestions = new SearchRecentSuggestions(MainActivity.this,
                    MySuggestionProvider.AUTHORITY, MySuggestionProvider.MODE);
            suggestions.saveRecentQuery(query, null);
            // To protect the user's privacy you should always provide a way to clear his search history.
            // Put in the menu a way that he can clear the history with the following line below.
            /*suggestions.clearHistory();*/

            // Display the results
            displaySearchResults(query);

            return true;
        }

        @Override
        public boolean onQueryTextChange(String newText) {
            return false;
        }
    });

    return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
}

Happy coding!

This is from the official google documentation: Creating a Search Interface

Answer 2

i did it.

Cursor cursor = managedQuery(intent.getData(), null, null, null, null);
cursor.moveToFirst();
String y = cursor.getString(1).trim();
final int x = Integer.valueOf(y) - 1;
myIntent.putExtra("id", y);