how to search text in webview

Question

I am working in android... I am a newbie in this field... I developed a webview...i need to search for a particular text inside the webview... I searched about some question

Answer 1

While this is an older question, based on AndroidEnthusiastic's version I managed to put together one that was actually working fairly decently. There is a minor error with the type of button on the Samsung Note I tested it on, but no matter how I was changing the IME types, it just got messed up. So I'm just hiding the soft-key keyboard. But the layout is better constructed.

public class SearchDemoActivity extends ActionBarActivity implements View.OnClickListener
{
WebView mWebView;
private RelativeLayout container;
private Button nextButton, closeButton;
private EditText findBox;

/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_search);
    getActionBar().setTitle(R.string.information_display);
    mWebView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webview);
    mWebView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient());
    mWebView.loadUrl("http://devemat-androidprogramming.blogspot.com/");

    nextButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.nextButton);
    closeButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.closeButton);
    findBox = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.findBox);
    findBox.setSingleLine(true);
    findBox.setOnKeyListener(new OnKeyListener()
    {
        public boolean onKey(View v, int keyCode, KeyEvent event)
        {
            if ((event.getAction() == KeyEvent.ACTION_DOWN) && ((keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_ENTER)))
            {
                mWebView.findAll(findBox.getText().toString());

                try
                {
                    // Can't use getMethod() as it's a private method
                    for (Method m : WebView.class.getDeclaredMethods())
                    {
                        if (m.getName().equals("setFindIsUp"))
                        {
                            m.setAccessible(true);
                            m.invoke(mWebView, true);
                            break;
                        }
                    }
                }
                catch (Exception ignored)
                {
                }
                finally
                {
                    InputMethodManager inputManager = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
                    // check if no view has focus:
                    View vv = getCurrentFocus();
                    if (vv != null)
                    {
                        inputManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(v.getWindowToken(),
                                InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS);
                    }
                }
            }
            return false;
        }
    });
    nextButton.setOnClickListener(this);
    closeButton.setOnClickListener(this);

}

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu)
{
    super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
    MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
    inflater.inflate(R.menu.searchview_in_menu, menu);
    return true;
}

public boolean onPrepareOptionsMenu(Menu menu)
{
    super.onPrepareOptionsMenu(menu);
    return true;
}

public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item)
{
    switch (item.getItemId())
    {
        case R.id.action_search:
            search();
            return true;
    }
    return true;
}

public void search()
{
    container = (RelativeLayout) findViewById(R.id.layoutId);
    if (container.getVisibility() == RelativeLayout.GONE)
    {
        container.setVisibility(RelativeLayout.VISIBLE);
    }
    else if (container.getVisibility() == RelativeLayout.VISIBLE)
    {
        container.setVisibility(RelativeLayout.GONE);
    }
}

@Override
public void onClick(View v)
{
    if (v == nextButton)
    {
        mWebView.findNext(true);
    }
    else if (v == closeButton)
    {
        container.setVisibility(RelativeLayout.GONE);
    }
}
}

The layout XML (activity_search.xml):

The menu: