Search suggestions from network resource into Quick Search box

Question

I\'m building the search in an application and need to have a way of putting the suggestions which I get from my server as a JSON-array into the list of suggestions which is

Answer 1

Found the solution on developer.android.com:

If you have suggestions that you get from a network location, you can build a cursor on the fly when you get the results from your server.

This goes inside your ContentProvider's query() method:

String[] columns = {
   BaseColumns._ID, 
   SearchManager.SUGGEST_COLUMN_TEXT_1, 
   SearchManager.SUGGEST_COLUMN_INTENT_DATA
};

MatrixCursor cursor = new MatrixCursor(columns);

for (int i = 0; i < arr.length(); i++)
{
  String[] tmp = {Integer.toString(i), arr.getString(i), arr.getString(i)};
  cursor.addRow(tmp);
}
return cursor;

The cursor is the used in the quick-search box to fill a list of suggestions.