Set search hint dynamically

Question

Does anybody knows how to set android search dialog hint dynamically? T have try to do something like:

Answer 1

It looks like you're almost there.

The SearchDialog source does this to get the auto complete editable.

mSearchAutoComplete = (SearchAutoComplete) findViewById(com.android.internal.R.id.search_src_text);

(note that the SearchAutoComplete class is a subclass of AutoCompleteTextView)