Android: how to declare an activity as main and searchable?

Question

I would like my main activity to be searchable also but when I change the manifest.xml to

 <intent-filter>
       <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
       <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
       <!-- declare the default searchable Activity for the whole app -->
       <action android:name="android.intent.action.SEARCH" />            
 </intent-filter>

it cant find the main activity and the application doesn't run. any idea? is it not best practice to use the same activity as searchable also? Thanks, Alisa

Answer 1

You need to add a new intent-filter with the action.SEARCH

<activity
    android:name=".activities.YourActivity">
    <intent-filter>
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
    </intent-filter>
     <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.SEARCH" />
    </intent-filter>
</activity>