Is it possible to search within Fragments?

Question

I have an Android application that we are porting over to Honeycomb/Android 3.0 and we are using Fragments in our new interface.

I have search working via the widget as shown here.

The problem is, the widget doesn't pop up any more when using Fragments. So the question is how do I get search to be used with Fragments?

Or how can I replace this line to be used with Fragments?

getActivity().onSearchRequested();

this could be the answer of your question: [see the third answer][1] [1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7230893/android-search-with-fragments — MLoydd, May 07 '12 at 13:27
@Kid24 check my answer below http://stackoverflow.com/a/24940111/1276636 — Sufian, Jul 24 '14 at 17:25

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 24 '14 at 17:20

I solved this problem using interface/callbacks.

In my MainActivity, I write a callback interface:

private SearchRequestedCallback mSearchRequestedCallback;
public void setSearchRequestedCallback(SearchRequestedCallback callback) {
    mSearchRequestedCallback = callback;
}
public interface SearchRequestedCallback {
    void onSearchRequested();
}

In my Fragment, I set the callback in the onStart() and unset it in the onStop():

@Override
public void onStart() {
    super.onStart();
    getActivity().setTitle(getResources().getString(R.string.app_name));
    ((MainActivity)getActivity()).setSearchRequestedCallback(new SearchRequestedCallback() {
        @Override
        public void onSearchRequested() {
            addFilter();
        }
    });
}
@Override
public void onStop() {
    ((MainActivity)getActivity()).setSearchRequestedCallback(null);
    super.onStop();
}

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:21

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You can't. The SearchManager is implemented to work with Activitys, not Fragments. See this post for more information.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:21

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answered Jul 02 '12 at 20:38

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Is it possible to search within Fragments?

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