How to implement Voice search to SearchView

Question

I want to add voice search function to my application. I'm populating a SearchView in SherlockActivity. But I can't find a solution to add voice search function to SearchView object.

Can you please give an advice, what do I need to do?

Code below :

    public class MainActivity extends SherlockActivity {
        private SlidingMenu slidingMenu;
        private SlidingMenu slidingMenuRight;
        private String mFilterArrays[];
        public long lastScrollTime=0; /** En son kaydırma ne zaman yapıldı*/
        @Override
        protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
            super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
            setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
    }   

        public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {

                    //Create the search view
                    SearchView searchView = new SearchView(getSupportActionBar().getThemedContext());
                    searchView.setQueryHint("Search...");


                    menu.add("Search")
                        .setIcon(R.drawable.ic_search_inverse)
                        .setActionView(searchView)
                        .setShowAsAction(MenuItem.SHOW_AS_ACTION_IF_ROOM | MenuItem.SHOW_AS_ACTION_COLLAPSE_ACTION_VIEW);
                        return true;
    }
}

Mainfest

<activity
    android:name="com.paea.bcp.MainActivity"
    android:label="@string/app_name" >
    <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="com.paea.bcp.MainActivity" />
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.SEARCH" />                
    </intent-filter>
</activity>

Answer 1

In your res/xml folder, you should have a searchable file (usually called searchable.xml).

Within the <searchable /> element in that file, you should add this attribute:

android:voiceSearchMode="showVoiceSearchButton|launchRecognizer"

There are other voice-related attributes (currently voicePromptText, voiceLanguageModel and voiceLanguage) which are all described here.