Question

I’m developing a custom contacts app. I read default Contacts app source from Github and I don’t fully understand.
1, As far as I know ContactsSearchActivity will be called if an intent has action equal

com.android.contacts.action.FILTER_CONTACTS (full manifest)

  <!-- The contacts search/filter UI -->
    <activity android:name="ContactsListActivity$ContactsSearchActivity"
        android:theme="@style/ContactsSearchTheme"
        android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysVisible|adjustPan"
    >
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="com.android.contacts.action.FILTER_CONTACTS" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
            <data android:mimeType="vnd.android.cursor.dir/contact" android:host="com.android.contacts" />
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>

But the ContactsSearchActivity has no code.

public class ContactsListActivity extends ListActivity implements View.OnCreateContextMenuListener,
        View.OnClickListener, View.OnKeyListener, TextWatcher, TextView.OnEditorActionListener,
        OnFocusChangeListener, OnTouchListener {

        public static class ContactsSearchActivity extends ContactsListActivity {

    }

So i don’t understand if ContactsSearchActivity is called.(Full source)

2, The second is about search interface. I know activity which has

<meta-data android:name="android.app.searchable"
                android:resource="@xml/searchable"

is the activity handle query and display result. And the one has android:name=”android.app.default_searchable” is enabled search + point to search handle activity.

<meta-data
            android:name="android.app.default_searchable"
            android:value=".ContactsListActivity" />

But again in Contacts’s manifest, SearchResultsActivity is empty class extended from ContactsListActivity.

<!-- The contacts search/filter UI -->
        <activity android:name="SearchResultsActivity"
            android:theme="@style/TallTitleBarTheme"
            android:label="@string/contactsList"
        >
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.SEARCH" />
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
            </intent-filter>

            <meta-data android:name="android.app.searchable"
                android:resource="@xml/searchable"
            />
        </activity>

and

<meta-data
                android:name="android.app.default_searchable"
                android:value=".ContactsListActivity" /> 

in application tag not activity tag (link).
I want to understand these because i don’t know how to display this instead of

Thanks in advance and sorry for long question.

Edit: It’s ok with part1. In part 2, I want to display a custom diaglog when press search button but now i can only archive result in second image.

Answer 1

I change my code and achieve my custom search dialog.