You can of course use you own image for the button or use a simple text Button. The image is placed into the res/drawable folders for the app. See the tutorial Free Android Icons Using and Paint.NET on how to convert a vector image to the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) formats required for Android apps. The ImageButton has a magnifying glass icon from a vector image from (a good source of free vector images).
If functionality is required to search for items within your app (such as the database) see the Android Developers Search Overview page.įor this simple Internet search button tutorial the user interface (UI) is an EditText (for the search term) and an ImageButton (to start the search). This tutorial covers adding a simple Internet search. This allows an Activity to have a web search button, in this case with the usual magnifying glass icon. In this Android web search example an ACTION_WEB_SEARCH Intent is started from a button. When entering code in Studio add import statements when prompted by pressing Alt-Enter.) Putting a Web Search Button in Your App The example code can be changed to meet your own requirements.
(This Android web search tutorial assumes that Android Studio is installed, a basic App can be created and run, and the code in this article can be correctly copied into Android Studio. Using an Android ACTION_WEB_SEARCH Intent a web search can be started from inside an app. The Android Operating System has web search built into it. Being able to search the whole world for information is one reason why we use the Internet.
0 kommentar(er)
