Nevermind, the different xml files are ok. My second xml file had a raw string in it which does not work (everything must use string references to strings.xml).
On Oct 29, 1:56 pm, Mark Wyszomierski <mar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am supporting search in my app, I'd like to display a unique hint in > the search box depending on what activity is being viewed. To that > end, I have a two different searchable.xml files in my xml folder: > > searchable.xml > searchable_activity_foo.xml > > When I reference searchable.xml, everything works as expected. The > second searchable xml file has the same contents as the first, but > this does not work: > > <activity android:name=".Foo" > > <intent-filter> > <action android:name="android.intent.action.SEARCH" /> > </intent-filter> > <meta-data android:name="android.app.searchable" > android:resource="@xml/searchable_activity_foo"/> > </activity> > > Pressing the search key does not display the search box. If I just > reference the first searchable instead, it works fine: > > <meta-data android:name="android.app.searchable" > android:resource="@xml/searchable"/> > > Again, both have the same content. It looks like there is a dependency > on the name "searchable.xml" within android? > > If we're not allowed to have searchables named anything but > searchable.xml, how do we specify different hint strings for different > activities? For example: > > ActivityFoo = "Search for apples!" > ActivityGrok = "Search for oranges!" > > Thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
