#Material SearchBar Android Material Design Search Bar for Android

This beautiful and easy to use library will help to add Lollipop Material Design SearchView in your project.

#How to use

to include SearchBar to your project:

add this code to the the project level build.gradle file

allprojects {
	repositories {
		...
		maven { url "https://jitpack.io" }
	}
}

add the dependency to the the app level build.gradle file

dependencies {
	compile 'com.github.mancj:MaterialSearchBar:0.3.1'
}

then add SearchBar to your activity:

<com.mancj.materialsearchbar.MaterialSearchBar
    app:speechMode="true"
    app:hint="Custom hint"
    app:maxSuggestionsCount="10"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:id="@+id/searchBar" />

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MaterialSarchBar has the following xml attributes:

attribute	description
hint	Set custom prompt in the search box
speechMode	If set to true, microphone icon will display instead of the search icon.
maxSuggestionsCount	Specifies the maximum number of search queries stored until the activity is destroyed
searchIconDrawable	Set search icon drawable resource
navIconDrawable	Set navigation icon drawable resource
textColor	Change text color
hintColor	Change text hint color
navIconEnabled	Set navigation icon enabled

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public methods:

• disableSearch()
• enableSearch()
• isSearchEnabled()
• setText(String text)
• getText()
• setHint(CharSequence hint)
• setNavButtonEnabled(boolean navButtonEnabled)
• setSpeechMode(boolean speechMode)
• setOnSearchActionListener(OnSearchActionListener onSearchActionListener)
• setLastSuggestions(List<String> suggestions)
• getLastSuggestions()
• setMaxSuggestionCount(int maxQuery)
• setSearchIcon(int searchIconResId)
• setNavigationIcon(int navigationIconResId)
• setTextColor(int textColor)
• setTextHintColor(int hintColor)
• inflateMenu(int menuResource)
• getMenu()

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To save search queries when the activity is destroyed, use the method searchBar.getLastSuggestions() and then, to restore them use searchBar.setLastSuggestions(List<String>); as shown in the example below

#Example

Here is a simple example of using MaterialSearchBar

private List<String> lastSearches;
private MaterialSearchBar searchBar;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

    searchBar = (MaterialSearchBar) findViewById(R.id.searchBar);
    searchBar.setHint("Custom hint");
    searchBar.setSpeechMode(true);
    //enable searchbar callbacks
    searchBar.setOnSearchActionListener(this);
    //restore last queries from disk
    lastSearches = loadSearchSuggestionFromDisk();
    searchBar.setLastSuggestions(list);
    //Inflate menu and setup OnMenuItemClickListener
    searchBar.inflateMenu(R.menu.main);
    searchBar.getMenu().setOnMenuItemClickListener(this);
}

@Override
protected void onDestroy() {
    super.onDestroy();
    //save last queries to disk
    saveSearchSuggestionToDisk(searchBar.getLastSuggestions());
}

@Override
public void onSearchStateChanged(boolean enabled) {
    String s = enabled ? "enabled" : "disabled";
    Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, "Search " + s, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}

@Override
public void onSearchConfirmed(CharSequence text) {
    startSearch(text.toString(), true, null, true);
}

@Override
public void onButtonClicked(int buttonCode) {
    switch (buttonCode){
        case MaterialSearchBar.BUTTON_NAVIGATION:
            drawer.openDrawer(Gravity.LEFT);
            break;
        case MaterialSearchBar.BUTTON_SPEECH:
            openVoiceRecognizer();
    }
}