Implementing SearchView in Toolbar with Fragments

Question

CURRENT SCENARIO

My app home page consists of navigation drawer, therefore I am having views loaded as fragments. I also have search icon in toolbar. I implemented it in menu.xml. Next step I implemented SearchView for search icon by following answer on this question Implementing search in Toolbar.

This is working fine as search view shows and can also be dismissed.

PROBLEM

I can implement search query for the search view but I cannot understand how to proceed. Problem is that onCreateOptionsMenu is in Activity and all code for search view is in the Activity. What I don't understand is data that has to be searched is in Fragment that is loaded in Activity class. I will hit another webservice to get the search result but how would I inflate searched data in Fragment again. I can't understand how to proceed in this situation.

`My app home page consists of navigation drawer, therefore I am having views loaded as fragments.` no, `DrawerLayout` does not require `Fragment`s to be used — pskink, Jan 22 '16 at 09:51

Malek Hijazi · Accepted Answer · 2020-03-14T19:57:42.173

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Put this in your fragment

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); 
    setHasOptionsMenu(true);
}

And you can get the SearchView like follows

@Override
public void onPrepareOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    MenuItem mSearchMenuItem = menu.findItem(R.id.mi_search);
    SearchView searchView = (SearchView) mSearchMenuItem.getActionView();
}

edited Mar 14 '20 at 19:57

answered Jan 22 '16 at 09:09

Malek Hijazi

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Ho will I get text written in searchview?? Should I have to implement textChangeListener – Vivek Mishra Jan 22 '16 at 09:30
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Implement a query text listener on the searchview as follows: searchView.setOnQueryTextListener(new SearchView.OnQueryTextListener()) – Malek Hijazi Jan 22 '16 at 09:33
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I am getting superNotCalled error when navigate to the fragment – Vivek Mishra Jan 22 '16 at 09:36
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return super.onPrepareOptionsMenu(menu); at the end of the onPrepareOptionsMenu – Malek Hijazi Jan 22 '16 at 09:37
It's a void method how it can return? – Vivek Mishra Jan 22 '16 at 09:44
Now it says incompatible type on return statement. Required boolean found void – Vivek Mishra Jan 22 '16 at 09:48
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/101382/discussion-between-vivek-mishra-and-malek-hijazi). – Vivek Mishra Jan 22 '16 at 09:49
Hi Malek I cant access the searchitem click event in fragment please help me – SAndroidD Feb 14 '17 at 11:01
This work perfect on Navigation Drawer with Fragments. Thanks a lot!. – Dinith Rukshan Kumara May 17 '18 at 21:09

Implementing SearchView in Toolbar with Fragments

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