[Feature request] Search on typing

[letientai299]

For now, the search action can only be trigger manually. I'd like trigger the search after some delay during typing. Unfortunately, with current implementation, I cannot call the listener from my subclass.

[nserguier]

Hi lentientai,

I wanted to achieve the same thing as you and I found a solution using a TextWatcher.
First, you create your TextWatcher that will execute your code to update the search when the text changes in the EditText:

TextWatcher searchWatcher = new TextWatcher() {

        @Override
        public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) {
        }

        @Override
        public void onTextChanged(final CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {
            updateSearch(s);
        }

        @Override
        public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
        }
    };

Then, you get the EditText component from the MaterialSearchBar and you attach your TextWatcher to it:

EditText searchEdit = (EditText) mSearchBar.findViewById(com.mancj.materialsearchbar.R.id.mt_editText);
searchEdit.addTextChangedListener(searchWatcher);

And that's all! I hope this will solve your problem and help other people achieve this.

[letientai299]

Thank @nserguier.

Actually that what I have done. But it requires knowledge about internal implementation of the library (in this case, the ID of EditText). While that solution works, I still think that it would be better if the library itself offer such feature.

[letientai299]

@mancj May I know the reason for closing this?

[mancj]

Thought@nserguier answered your question. This is not possible in the current release.