Android Programming Tutorials

Searching For Food

That file, in turn, references a pair of String resources, so we need to add

them to LunchList/res/values/strings.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<resources>

<string name="app_name">LunchList</string>

<string name="searchLabel">Restaurants</string>

<string name="searchHint">lorem</string>

</resources>

At this point, you can recompile and reinstall your application. Choosing

the option menu will display our new search item:

Figure 51. The new option menu

Choosing the search brings up the search field:

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