Making Application Content Searchable

If your application is content rich, either with content created by users or with content provided by you, the developer, then integrating with the search capabilities of Android can provide many benefits and add value to the user. The application data becomes part of the overall device experience, is more accessible, and your application can be presented to the user in more cases than just when they launch it.

Developers can implement powerful search features in their applications using the Android framework. There are two ways that search capabilities are generally added to Android applications:

• Applications implement a search framework that enables their activities to react to the user pressing the Search button, requesting a search, and performing searches on data within that application.