customization - Android - Prevent text truncation in SearchView suggestions?

Question

The suggestions that appear in the default ListView beneath my SearchView contain text that is truncated. I would like the text to be displayed in its entirety (on multiple lines if necessary).

I have come up with two possible ways to solve this but, with no examples to be found on the net, I was hoping someone on here may be able to help...

Approach #1 / Q1: How can I directly access and modify the appearance of the TextViews that hold the SUGGEST_COLUMN_TEXT_1 and SUGGEST_COLUMN_TEXT_1 text?

Approach #2 / Q2: Alternatively, SearchView has a setSuggestionsAdapter(CursorAdapter adapter) method which looks like it may be (more?) suitable than approach #1. Although I have read up on CursorAdapters and have one already implemented in my app, I'm not sure how I would configure one for the SearchView (esp. in terms of accessing the cursor), so could anyone help me out with some general guidance or a skeleton example?

Here is the existing code from my SearchViewFragment class:

public class SearchViewFragment extends Fragment {

public SearchViewFragment() {
}

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
}

@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
    Bundle savedInstanceState) {

    // Inflate the layout for this fragment
    View fragmentView =  inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_search_view, container, false);

    // Use the Search Manager to find the SearchableInfo related to this Activity
    SearchManager searchManager = (SearchManager)getActivity().getSystemService(Context.SEARCH_SERVICE);
    SearchableInfo searchableInfo = searchManager.getSearchableInfo(getActivity().getComponentName());

    // Bind the Activity's SearchableInfo to the Search View
    SearchView searchView = (SearchView)fragmentView.findViewById(R.id.searchView);
    searchView.setSearchableInfo(searchableInfo);
    searchView.setIconifiedByDefault(false);
    searchView.setSubmitButtonEnabled(true);
    //searchView.setQueryRefinementEnabled(true);

    return fragmentView;
}

}

Update: SOLVED!

Thanks to the accepted answer, I have created this code which is pretty clean and does the job well...

public class SearchViewFragment extends Fragment {

    private static final String LOG_TAG = SearchViewFragment.class.getSimpleName();

    public SearchViewFragment() {
    }

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        setRetainInstance(true); //todo - not working - Remember search term
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    }

    @Override
    public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
        Bundle savedInstanceState) {

        // Inflate the layout for this fragment
        View fragmentView =  inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_search_view, container, false);

        // Use the Search Manager to find the SearchableInfo related to this Activity
        SearchManager searchManager = (SearchManager)getActivity().getSystemService(Context.SEARCH_SERVICE);
        SearchableInfo searchableInfo = searchManager.getSearchableInfo(getActivity().getComponentName());

        // Bind the Activity's SearchableInfo to the Search View
        final SearchView searchView = (SearchView)fragmentView.findViewById(R.id.searchView);
        searchView.setSearchableInfo(searchableInfo);
        searchView.setIconifiedByDefault(false);
        searchView.setSubmitButtonEnabled(true);
        //searchView.setQueryRefinementEnabled(true);

        searchView.setOnQueryTextListener(new SearchView.OnQueryTextListener() {
            @Override
            public boolean onQueryTextSubmit(String s) {
               //DO whatever you want here on text submit in the search View
                Log.d(LOG_TAG, "onQueryTextSubmit(" + s + ")");

                return true;
            }
            @Override
            public boolean onQueryTextChange(String textChange) {

                Log.d(LOG_TAG, "onQueryTextChange(" + textChange + ")");

                ContentResolver cr = getActivity().getContentResolver();

                Uri uri = DbContentProvider.CONTENT_URI_REAL_PRODUCTS;
                String[] projection = DbContentProvider.getProjectionIn(DbContentProvider.REAL_PRODUCTS_SUGGEST);
                String selection = DbContentProvider.getSelection(false);
                String[] selectionArgs = {Utilities.formatQueryString(textChange)};
                String sortOrder = null;
                Cursor cursor = cr.query(uri, projection, selection, selectionArgs, sortOrder);
                Log.d(LOG_TAG, "Setting setSuggestionsAdapter. cursor: " + cursor);
                searchView.setSuggestionsAdapter(new SearchSuggestionsAdapter(getActivity(), cursor));

                return true;

            }
        });

        return fragmentView;
    }

    private static class SearchSuggestionsAdapter extends SimpleCursorAdapter {

        private static final String[] mVisible = {SearchManager.SUGGEST_COLUMN_TEXT_1, SearchManager.SUGGEST_COLUMN_TEXT_2};
        private static final int[] mViewIds = {R.id.product_name, R.id.product_shelf};

        public SearchSuggestionsAdapter(Context context, Cursor cursor) {

            super(context, R.layout.search_view_suggestions, cursor, mVisible, mViewIds, 0);

        }
        /*
        @Override
        public void bindView(View view, Context context, Cursor cursor) {

            Log.d(LOG_TAG, "bindView(" + view + ", " + context + ", " + cursor + ")");
            super.bindView(view, context, cursor);

        }

        @Override
        public View newView(Context context, Cursor cursor, ViewGroup parent) {

            Log.d(LOG_TAG, "newView(" + context + ", " + cursor + ", " + parent + ")");
            return super.newView(context, cursor, parent);

        }
        */

    }

}

And here is my search_view_suggestions.xml...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin" >

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/product_name"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Product Name placeholder"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/product_shelf"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Product Shelf placeholder" />

</LinearLayout>

...the result is no text truncation. :-)

Answer 1

It seems like you want a custom layout for your search view results. I will try to outline some clear steps below:

To make the search view to work we need to have a searchable.xml in the res/xml folder and a content provider at all times.

searchable.xml example:

<searchable xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:label="@string/app_name"
    android:searchSuggestAuthority="com.example.searchProvider" ></searchable>

The label and searchSuggestAuthority are required. The searchSuggestAuthority should point to the location of the content provider

Add the intent-filter meta-data to the activity in the manifest. Example:

  <meta-data android:name="android.app.searchable" android:resource="@xml/searchable"/>

In the activity/fragment, get your searchView object and pass it the custom adapter for displaying the custom layout.

searchView.setSearchableInfo(manager.getSearchableInfo(getActivity().getComponentName()));
        final SearchView.OnQueryTextListener queryTextListener = new SearchView.OnQueryTextListener() {
            @Override
            public boolean onQueryTextSubmit(String s) {
               //DO whatever you want here on text submit in the search View

                return true;
            }
 @Override
            public boolean onQueryTextChange(String textChange) {


                searchView.setSuggestionsAdapter(new ExampleAdapter(context,yourData));

            }
        };

Make sure the custom adapter extends the cursorAdapter.

public class ExampleAdapter extends CursorAdapter {

    private Cursor cursor;

    private TextView text;

    public ExampleAdapter(Context context, Cursor cursor) {

        super(context, cursor);

        this.cursor= cursor;

    }

    @Override
    public void bindView(View view, Context context, Cursor cursor) {

        text.setText((cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(YOUR_STRING_KEY));));

    }

    @Override
    public View newView(Context context, Cursor cursor, ViewGroup parent) {

        LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater) context.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);

        View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.item, parent, false);

        text = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.text);

        return view;

    }

}

In the above code R.layout.item refers to your custom xml file that you can use to inflate in the searchview results.

Make sure you are using a content provider though. The searchView doesn't work without one. It doesn't matter even if you are only caching the data on a temporary basis.

Hope this helps!