Titanium.UI.Android.SearchView

viewAndroidsince 3.0.2

A specialized text field for entering search text.

Android

SearchView provides a user interface to enter a search query and submit a request to a search provider.

Search views are most commonly used for filtering the rows in a TableView. Similar to SearchBar, you can add a search view to a table view by setting the table view's search property. A search view can be used without a TableView.

You can also use a SearchView object as the Titanium.UI.ListView.searchView property of a ListView object.

You can also add SearchView to an ActionBar as a view (see example below).

Use the Titanium.UI.Android.createSearchView method or <SearchView> Alloy element to create a search view. You must set the Alloy element's ns attribute to Ti.UI.Android:

<SearchView ns="Ti.UI.Android" platform="android"/>

Examples

Search View for Table in Action Bar

The following example creates a SearchView widget for a TableView and displays it as an Action Bar item if the Google API level is 11 or later. If not, it defaults to use the search bar.

var win = Ti.UI.createWindow({
    fullscreen: false
});

// Use action bar search view
var search = Ti.UI.Android.createSearchView({
    hintText: "Table Search"
});

win.activity.onCreateOptionsMenu = function(e) {
    var menu = e.menu;
    var menuItem = menu.add({
        title: 'Table Search',
        actionView : search,
        icon: (Ti.Android.R.drawable.ic_menu_search ? Ti.Android.R.drawable.ic_menu_search : "my_search.png"),
        showAsAction: Ti.Android.SHOW_AS_ACTION_IF_ROOM | Ti.Android.SHOW_AS_ACTION_COLLAPSE_ACTION_VIEW
    });
};

var data = [];
data.push(Ti.UI.createTableViewRow({title:'Apple'}));
data.push(Ti.UI.createTableViewRow({title:'Banana'}));
data.push(Ti.UI.createTableViewRow({title:'Orange'}));
data.push(Ti.UI.createTableViewRow({title:'Raspberry'}));

var tableview = Titanium.UI.createTableView({
    data: data,
    search: search,
    searchAsChild: false
});

win.add(tableview);
win.open();

Alloy XML Markup

Previous example as an Alloy project.

index.xml:

<Alloy>
    <Window id="win" backgroundColor="blue" fullscreen="false" layout="vertical">
        <TableView id="tableview" top="10" searchAsChild="false">
            <TableViewRow title="Apple" />
            <TableViewRow title="Banana" />
            <TableViewRow title="Orange" />
            <TableViewRow title="Raspberry" />
        </TableView>
    </Window>
</Alloy>

index.js:

// use action bar search view
var search = Alloy.createController("searchview").getView();
$.tableview.search = search;
$.win.addEventListener("open", function() {
    $.win.activity.onCreateOptionsMenu = function(e) {
        e.menu.add({
            title: "Table Search",
            icon: (Ti.Android.R.drawable.ic_menu_search ? Ti.Android.R.drawable.ic_menu_search : "my_search.png"),
            actionView: search,
            showAsAction : Ti.Android.SHOW_AS_ACTION_ALWAYS | Ti.Android.SHOW_AS_ACTION_COLLAPSE_ACTION_VIEW
        });
    }
    $.win.activity.invalidateOptionsMenu();
});

$.win.open();

searchview.xml:

<Alloy>
    <SearchView id="searchView" ns="Ti.UI.Android" platform="android" hintText="Table Search" />
</Alloy>

Properties 67

accessibilityDisableLongPress

Booleansince 12.4.0

Parameters	Type	Description
name	String	Name of the event.
callback	Callback<Titanium.Event>	Callback function to invoke when the event is fired. 4 fields bubbles Boolean True if the event will try to bubble up if possible. cancelBubble Boolean Set to true to stop the event from bubbling. source Object Source object that fired the event. type String Name of the event fired.

Parameters	Type	Description
animation	Titanium.UI.Animation \| Dictionary<Titanium.UI.Animation>	Either a dictionary of animation properties or an Animation object.
callback?	Callback<Object>	Function to be invoked upon completion of the animation.

Parameters	Type	Description
point	Point	A point in this view's coordinate system. If this argument is missing an `x` or `y` property, or the properties can not be converted into numbers, an exception will be raised.
destinationView	Titanium.UI.View	View that specifies the destination coordinate system to convert to. If this argument is not a view, an exception will be raised.

Parameters	Type	Description
callback?	Callback<Titanium.Blob>	Function to be invoked upon completion. If non-null, this method will be performed asynchronously. If null, it will be performed immediately.
honorScaleFactor?	Boolean	Determines whether the image is scaled based on scale factor of main screen. (iOS only) When set to true, image is scale factor is honored. When set to false, the image in the blob has the same dimensions for retina and non-retina devices.

Event properties	Type	Description
x	Number	X coordinate of the event from the `source` view's coordinate system.
y	Number	Y coordinate of the event from the `source` view's coordinate system.
obscured	Boolean	Returns `true` if the click passed through an overlapping window belonging to another app. This is a security feature to protect an app from "tapjacking", where a malicious app can use a system overlay to intercept touch events in your app or to trick the end-user to tap on UI in your app intended for the overlay.

Event properties	Type	Description
scale	Number	The scale factor relative to the points of the two touches in screen coordinates.
velocity	Number	The velocity of the pinch in scale factor per second.
time	Number	The event time of the current event being processed.
timeDelta	Number	The time difference in milliseconds between the previous accepted scaling event and the current scaling event.
currentSpan	Number	The average distance between each of the pointers forming the gesture in progress through the focal point.
currentSpanX	Number	The average X distance between each of the pointers forming the gesture in progress through the focal point.
currentSpanY	Number	The average Y distance between each of the pointers forming the gesture in progress through the focal point.
previousSpan	Number	The previous average distance between each of the pointers forming the gesture in progress through the focal point.
previousSpanX	Number	The previous average X distance between each of the pointers forming the gesture in progress through the focal point.
previousSpanY	Number	The previous average Y distance between each of the pointers forming the gesture in progress through the focal point.
focusX	Number	The X coordinate of the current gesture's focal point.
focusY	Number	The Y coordinate of the current gesture's focal point.
inProgress	Boolean	Returns `true` if a scale gesture is in progress, `false` otherwise.

Event properties	Type	Description
direction	String	Direction of the swipe--either 'left', 'right', 'up', or 'down'.
x	Number	X coordinate of the event's endpoint from the `source` view's coordinate system.
y	Number	Y coordinate of the event's endpoint from the `source` view's coordinate system.
obscured	Boolean	Returns `true` if the swipe passed through an overlapping window belonging to another app. This is a security feature to protect an app from "tapjacking", where a malicious app can use a system overlay to intercept touch events in your app or to trick the end-user to tap on UI in your app intended for the overlay.

Examples

Search View for Table in Action Bar

Alloy XML Markup

Properties 67

Linear and Radial Gradients

Methods 17

Events 20