How to open the search by clicking a custom button in android? [closed]

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I want to open the search (Default Search), which stays on the desktop (the google search) by clicking a button.

Here is the Xml code:

 <ImageButton 
     android:id="@+id/btnSearch" 
     android:layout_width="wrap_content" 
     android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
     android:src="@drawable/ic_action_search" android:text="" 
 /> 

which I used to create the button. It's a very simple button. Now I used this onclicklistener to catch the click event of that button :

imgSearch.setOnClickListener(
    new View.OnClickListener() { 
        @Override public void onClick(View v) { 
            onSearchRequested(); 
        } 
    }
); 

But couldn't find out how to exactly make it work. Please Let me know what to do.

Answer 1

You can use the Intent class with web search action:

private void onSearchRequested() { 

    Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_WEB_SEARCH);
    intent.putExtra(SearchManager.QUERY, "your search query");
    startActivity(intent);

}