Android - Actionbar Sherlock - Search Filter

I am trying to implement Action Bar using ActionBar Sherlock. I have three Action Button one of which is a Search Button. On Clicking of the Search Button the Search input field s

Solution 1:

first make a editTextLayout

layout_search.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><EditTextxmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"android:layout_width="match_parent"android:layout_height="match_parent"android:background="@drawable/search_edit_text"android:cursorVisible="true"android:hint="@string/search_friend_hint"android:imeOptions="actionDone"android:inputType="text"android:textColor="@android:color/black"android:textCursorDrawable="@android:color/black" />

In you menu xml add android:actionLayout and android:showAsAction="always|collapseActionView" for Search option. For other option make android:showAsAction="ifRoom"

menu.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><menuxmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" ><itemandroid:icon="@drawable/ic_action_sort"android:orderInCategory="1"android:showAsAction="ifRoom"android:title="@string/menu_sort"/><itemandroid:id="@+id/menu_search"android:actionLayout="@layout/layout_search"android:icon="@drawable/search"android:orderInCategory="0"android:showAsAction="always|collapseActionView"android:title="@string/search"/></menu>

in your activity or fragment override onCreateOptionsMenu like this fragment.java

@OverridepublicvoidonCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu, MenuInflater inflater) {
        super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu, inflater);
        inflater.inflate(R.menu.menu, menu);

        finalEditTexteditText= (EditText) menu.findItem(
                R.id.menu_search).getActionView();
        editText.addTextChangedListener(textWatcher);

        MenuItemmenuItem= menu.findItem(R.id.menu_search);
        menuItem.setOnActionExpandListener(newOnActionExpandListener() {
            @OverridepublicbooleanonMenuItemActionCollapse(MenuItem item) {
                // Do something when collapsedreturntrue; // Return true to collapse action view
            }

            @OverridepublicbooleanonMenuItemActionExpand(MenuItem item) {
                editText.clearFocus();
                returntrue; // Return true to expand action view
            }
        });
    }

and add textWatcherListener

privateTextWatchertextWatcher=newTextWatcher() {

        @OverridepublicvoidonTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before,
                int count) {

            if (null != mAdapter) {
                mAdapter.getFilter().filter(s);
            }
        }

        @OverridepublicvoidbeforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count,
                int after) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub

        }

        @OverridepublicvoidafterTextChanged(Editable s) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub

        }
    };