Custom search implementation with SearchView

Question

I want to implement search in my app, but I don\'t want to use a separate Activity to display my search results. Instead, I only want to use the suggestionslist that display

Answer 1

I have implemented search in my application by using an EditText which takes search string.
And below this EditText I have my ListView on which I want to perform search.

The list below the search EditText changes according to what search text is entered in the EditText.

etSearch = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.searchInput);
etSearch.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {
    @Override
    public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {
        searchList();
    }
    @Override
    public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count,
            int after) {
    }
    @Override
    public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
    }
});  

The function searchList() does the actual searching

  private void searchList() {
    String s = etSearch.getText().toString();
    int textlength = s.length();
    String sApp;
    ArrayList appsListSort = new ArrayList();
    int appSize = list.size();
    for (int i = 0; i < appSize; i++) {
        sApp = list.get(i);
        if (textlength <= sApp.length()) {
            if (s.equalsIgnoreCase((String) sApp.subSequence(0, textlength))) {
                appsListSort.add(list.get(i));
            }
        }
    }
    list.clear();
    for (int j = 0; j < appsListSort.size(); j++) {
        list.add(appsListSort.get(j));
    }
    adapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
}  

here list is the ArrayList which shows in the ListView and adapter is the ListView adapter.
I hope this helps you in some way.