How to pass text from Activity to Google Now search in Android

Question

I have an activity with EditText and Button. When user is pressing the button i need to launch Google Now Search from my Activity and pass a text from EditText to make Google Now search for this text. How can i do this?

Answer 1

Try this

String query = editText.getText().toString();
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_WEB_SEARCH);
intent.setClassName("com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox", "com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox.SearchActivity");
intent.putExtra("query", query);
startActivity(intent);

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