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Android - force searchview to open programmatically

In my application am using the library for the autoComplete searchview
Here is what the library am using
compile 'com.miguelcatalan:materialsearchview:1.4.0'
Here is my xml
<FrameLayout
android:id="#+id/toolbar_container"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id="#+id/toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:background="#color/theme_primary" />
<com.miguelcatalan.materialsearchview.MaterialSearchView
android:id="#+id/search_view"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
</FrameLayout>
What I want is I want to open the searchView programmatically to open searchbar without using pressing the search icon in actionbar.
How can i achieve this.any help.

you can use inbuilt functionality of autocompletetextview which this library must be extending
search_view.setFocusedByDefault(true);

I observed the library and MaterialSearchView class i see there one method it is showSearch(). may be it is for show SearchView.
method is in MaterialSearchView.class
public void showSearch(boolean animate) {
if (isSearchOpen()) {
return;
}
So you can call this method like this :
materialSearchView.showSearch(true/false);
May be work for your requirement. Hope this help you.

How to add an element between two elements android

I am trying to add an editText in between two already existing editTexts programmatically on the click of a button in android. I am just wondering if this is possible, as i have been unable to find any related questions?

What do you want to acomplish with runtime element adding? Whats the purpose? Maybe isn't enough to show/hide the element on specific actions?
I mean you can make it gone (it will be invisible but also won't use space on the layout) in xml:
android:visibility="gone"
or in java code in the onCreate() method:
specificElement.setVisibility(View.GONE)
Then when you normally would add the element you rather just set the visibility to visible:
specificElement.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE)
What about that?

you can add 3rd EditText on 2nd position.
For that first you should have reference of the parent layout nad then do like this.
if you have done :
parent.addView(editText1);
parent.addView(editText2);
So now your parent have two child views.
now to add 3rd EditText i.e. editText3 then do this like:
parent.addView(editText3, 1);// addView(<childview>, <index>);
Like this your 3rd EditText will be in 2nd position.

RelativeLayout.LayoutParams params = (RelativeLayout.LayoutParams)yourEditBox.getLayoutParams();
params.addRule(RelativeLayout.LEFT_OF, R.id.id_to_be_left_of);
params.addRule(RelativeLayout.RIGHT_OF, R.id.id_to_be_right_of);
yourEditBox.setLayoutParams(params);
Use above code to add and align you're editbox between another two editboxes.

Inside Activity class
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
#Override
protected void onCreate(#Nullable Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
LinearLayout linearLayout = (LinearLayout) getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.activity_main, null);
setContentView(linearLayout);
EditText editText = new EditText(getBaseContext());
editText.setHint("Programmatically Added EditText");
linearLayout.addView(editText, 1);
}}
Layout file structure
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:padding="10dp">
<EditText
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:hint="EditText 1" />
<EditText
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:hint="EditText 2" />
</LinearLayout>
Hope this helps. Cheers!

You can just add this editText between the two in your xml file and controle visibility on your xml and the moment you click on your button.
In xml file :Set visibility to gone or invisible depending on what you actually want :
android:visibility="invisible" it won't be visible but it's going to take place in your view
android:visibility="gone" it won't be visible and it's not taking place in your view
In your code :
yourButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
yourButton.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
});

I want my Android Fragment to cover the MainActivity screen (I don't want to see any MainActivity text, buttons, etc.)

This seems to be such a fundamental question that I'm embarrassed to ask it, but I'm so frustrated by my Fragment learning curve that I'll expose my ignorance.
An example in a textbook that cuts a lot of corners that make expanding them difficult, if they even work, had no button to click; MainActivity simply loaded FragmentA. OK, keep it basic. I get that.
So I added a button to MainActivity to click to load FragmentA, but the button shows on the FragmentA screen, sort of like this (not an actual screen shot, but close):
How do I prevent that? Should I use a second Activity instead of a Fragment? Since this endeavor is to be utilized in a much larger project, I don't want to do anything considered not best practice. I realize that the main use of Fragment is to enable side-by-side "screens" on devices that are large enough. That's not what I want to do, but it IS possible to accomplish what I want with a Fragment, isn't it?
MainActivity.java
public class MainActivity extends Activity {
#Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
super.onCreate( savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
}
public void btnLoadFragmentAByClick(View view)
{
FragmentA fragmentA;
fragmentA = new FragmentA();
FragmentTransaction ft ;
ft = getFragmentManager().beginTransaction();
ft.replace(R.id.layout_container, fragmentA);
ft.addToBackStack("example");
ft.commit();
}
}
FragmentA.java
public class FragmentA extends Fragment
{
#Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater _inflater,
ViewGroup _container,
Bundle _savedInstanceState)
{
return _inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_a,
_container,
false);
}
}
activity_main.xml
<RelativeLayout
xmlns:android ="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools ="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width ="match_parent"
android:layout_height ="match_parent"
tools:context =".MainActivity" >
<LinearLayout
android:id ="#+id/layout_container"
android:orientation ="vertical"
android:layout_width ="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
>
</LinearLayout>
<Button
android:id ="#+id/btnLoadFragmentA"
android:text ="Load Fragment A"
android:onClick="btnLoadFragmentAByClick"
android:layout_width ="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
/>
</RelativeLayout>
fragment_a.xml
<RelativeLayout
xmlns:android ="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width ="match_parent"
android:layout_height ="match_parent" >
<TextView
android:layout_width ="wrap_content"
android:layout_height ="wrap_content"
android:text ="Layout for fragment A"
android:textAppearance ="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"
>
</TextView>
</RelativeLayout>
EDIT
I realize that I could hide the MainActiviy button (and any other objects) before loading FragmentA and show them after returning, but I was hoping for a one-or-two-line "fix".

How do I prevent that?
Well, to some extent, you don't, insofar as this has nothing to do with fragments.
Your activity_main.xml has the Button floating over top of the LinearLayout (???) that you are using for your fragment container. If you do not want the Button floating over top of the fragment container, then fix the layout file to not have the Button floating over top of the fragment container.
I realize that I could hide the MainActiviy button (and any other objects) before loading FragmentA and show them after returning, but I was hoping for a one-or-two-line "fix".
The typical solution for full-UI replacement using fragments is to have everything in fragments. Your replace() would replace your original fragment with a replacement. So, in this case, your Button would be managed by one fragment, and clicking the Button would replace() that fragment with another fragment. Given that your FragmentTransaction has addToBackStack(), pressing BACK would get rid of the replacement fragment and return you to your Button fragment.

Android, ActionBar hiding other widgets

Disclaimer: It's build with CLI only tools, so certainly some "auto-generated lines" are missing
It's a small application with a MainActivity with a EditText and a Button
It works fine, but if I extends now from ActionBarActivity now my EditText and Button are hidden behind the Action Bar
https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/actionbar.html The android documentation does not state about changes needing to be made in the layout.xml nor does the Training guide from which my application is based on
My MainActivity.java
public class MainActivity extends ActionBarActivity
{
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
// adding these lines show that the widget are correctly added
//ActionBar actionBar = getSupportActionBar();
//actionBar.hide();
}
}
My main layout
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
>
<EditText
android:id="#+id/enter_verb"
android:hint="#string/enter_verb"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
/>
<Button
android:text="#string/button_conjugate"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
/>
</LinearLayout>
My guess would be that I need to add something in my layout to make it aware there's a Action Bar, but I can't find anywhere what it should be.

Very strange, I've added the line coming from this link
https://developer.android.com/training/basics/actionbar/overlaying.html
Which is:
android:paddingTop="?attr/actionBarSize"
in my LinearLayout tag, and then recompiled, after that the widget were shown but with a padding of the size of the actionBar in addition to the actionBar itself.
I then removed the line, recompiled and it now works as expected
A bug because of temporary files?

Styling tabs in android like the google open source contacts

I'm having troubles trying to style my tabs in android.
I want to make them look exactly the same as whats in the open source android contacts list (see https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Contacts
).
Problem is that when they display on the screen it looks a bit different to the contacts app.
When it should look like this:
Notice how the background colors are a little bit different and the text colors are different.
Not sure why this is the case as its basically the same code and icons.
My tab layout code is the following:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<TabHost xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#android:id/tabhost"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<LinearLayout
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:padding="0dp">
<TabWidget
android:id="#android:id/tabs"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
<FrameLayout
android:id="#android:id/tabcontent"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:padding="0dp" />
</LinearLayout>
</TabHost>
Which doesn't contain anything special there.. and the TabActivity is as follows:
public class TabbedActivity extends TabActivity implements
TabHost.OnTabChangeListener {
private TabHost tabHost;
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
final Intent intent = getIntent();
requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
setContentView(R.layout.tab);
tabHost = getTabHost();
tabHost.setOnTabChangedListener(this);
setupLatestTab();
setupSavedTab();
tabHost.setCurrentTab(0);
}
private void setupLatestTab() {
Intent intent = new Intent().setClass(this, ResultsActivity.class);
tabHost.addTab(tabHost
.newTabSpec("latest")
.setIndicator("Latest",
getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.ic_tab_recent))
.setContent(intent));
}
private void setupSavedTab() {
Intent intent = new Intent().setClass(this, ResultsActivity.class);
tabHost.addTab(tabHost
.newTabSpec("saved")
.setIndicator("Saved",
getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.ic_tab_starred))
.setContent(intent));
}
#Override
public void onTabChanged(String tabId) {
// Because we're using Activities as our tab children, we trigger
// onWindowFocusChanged() to let them know when they're active. This may
// seem to duplicate the purpose of onResume(), but it's needed because
// onResume() can't reliably check if a keyguard is active.
Activity activity = getLocalActivityManager().getActivity(tabId);
if (activity != null) {
activity.onWindowFocusChanged(true);
}
}
}
I am using the same images from the drawable folders too.
I know i can set the background of tabs manually by doing something like this in the tabactivity
tabHost.getTabWidget().getChildAt(index).setBackgroundColor(Color.parseColor("#ff202020"));
But the contacts app isn't doing this sort of thing anywhere (most of the top tab code is in DialtactsActivity), so just want to do what the open source app is doing when displaying tabs - i'm not sure how and why the contacts application tabs look much better when im basically using the same code and resources.
I guess im just missing something trivial??

This turned out to be a problem with my minimum android version not being specified ..
Added:
<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="8" />
to the androidmanifest and it worked fine. I guess it was reverting to the old tabs look and feel in earlier versions of android.