Searching for Meaning in Randomness

Given all that, search is now available – Android knows your application is searchable and what search domain to use when searching from the main activity, and the activity knows how to do the search.

The options menu for this application has both local and global search options. In the case of local search, we just call ; in the case of global search, we call with true in the last parameter, indicating the scope is global.

Typing in a letter or two then clicking Search, will bring up the search activity and the subset of words containing what you typed, with your search query in the activity title bar. You can get the same effect if you just start typing in the main activity, since it is set up for triggering a local search.

CHAPTER 37

Development Tools

The Android SDK is more than a library of Java classes and API calls. It also includes a number of tools to assist in application development.

Much of the focus has been on the Eclipse plug‑in, to integrate Android development with that IDE. Secondary emphasis has been placed on the plug‑in’s equivalents for use in other IDEs or without an IDE, such as adb for communicating with a running emulator.

This chapter will cover other tools beyond those two groups.