I\'m developing search widget interface based on official tutorial: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/search/search-dialog.html
Problem: My
Problem solved: the tutorial seems to missing one important part:
has to be added inside
tags in manifest to get the search widget working correctly.
EDIT- Also a hint to solving a problem when the actionbar search is not triggered on data posting (no error given whatsoever and documentations hasn't got a word about this limitation): in searchable.xml file android:hint and android:label attributes MUST be references to strings in strings.xml. Source