Android: Edittext acting as search engine

Question

Is there a way that my Edittext in my application act as a search engine like google or yahoo? Is there any tutorial that can help me?

Are you trying to do something similar to suggestions drop down in google? — Comet, Jul 10 '12 at 05:48
Not only the dropdown... but I want the actual search results from google, yahoo — rahul, Jul 10 '12 at 05:50

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 10 '12 at 06:01

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i think you can use SearchView, for your purpose

answered Jul 10 '12 at 06:01

sunil

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 10 '12 at 05:46

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What are you trying to achieve ?, but you can directly gettext from edittext and search that text using google api.

answered Jul 10 '12 at 05:46

Programmer

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 10 '12 at 05:46

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you can follow this tutorial Here if you search name automatically the matchings are highlight as like Google

answered Jul 10 '12 at 05:46

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