Android Programming Tutorials

Searching For Food

android:title="Settings"

android:icon="@drawable/ic_menu_preferences"

/>

</menu>

You will need a suitable icon, such as ic_menu_search.png from the Android

SDK.

Then, add the corresponding segment to onOptionsItemSelected() in

LunchList to handle our new item:

@Override

public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {

if (item.getItemId()==R.id.add) {

startActivity(new Intent(LunchList.this, DetailForm.class));

return(true);

}

else if (item.getItemId()==R.id.prefs) {

startActivity(new Intent(this, EditPreferences.class));

return(true);

}

else if (item.getItemId()==R.id.search) {

onSearchRequested();

return(true);

}

return(super.onOptionsItemSelected(item));

}

This triggers onSearchRequested(), which tells Android that we would like to

conduct a search in this application.

Finally, in initList() in LunchList, we need to see if our activity was

launched via a search and, if so, use the search string entered by the user.

Here is a revised initList() implementation for LunchList that does just

that:

private void initList() {

if (model!=null) {

stopManagingCursor(model);

model.close();

}

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