How do I get a Uri to an image in my Assets that will work for the SearchManager.SUGGEST_COLUMN_ICON_1 column?

Question

I have successfully integrated my app\'s country search into the global search facility and now I am trying to display each country\'s flag next to the search suggestions.

Answer 1

Just wanted to add to vidstige's answer: I wanted to serve files that I had downloaded to my temporary cache directory earlier, so I can serve external image thumbnails to the SearchView suggestions from URLs in my search ContentProvider. I used this function instead:

@Override
public AssetFileDescriptor openAssetFile(Uri uri, String mode) throws FileNotFoundException {
        String filename = uri.getLastPathSegment();

        try {
            File file = new File(getContext().getCacheDir(), filename);

            // image downloading has to be done in the search results provider, since it's not on the UI thread like this guy.
            //downloadAndSaveFile("http://urdomain/urfile.png", filename);

            AssetFileDescriptor afd = new AssetFileDescriptor(
                        ParcelFileDescriptor.open(file, ParcelFileDescriptor.MODE_READ_ONLY | ParcelFileDescriptor.MODE_WORLD_READABLE),
                    0, AssetFileDescriptor.UNKNOWN_LENGTH);

            return afd;
        } catch (IOException e) {
            throw new FileNotFoundException("No asset found: " + uri);
        }
    }