3. Coding our Search

• @Override the onNewIntent(Intent intent) method.
  • This method handles Intents that do not require our activity to be restarted; instead this event fires when we go back to an Active Activity.
• Define a custom method to handle various Intents sent to our activity.
  • In lesson, I called mine handleIntent(Intent intent)
• In your onCreate and onNewIntent methods, call your custom method that handles intents (again, mine was called handleIntent()) and passes our getIntent() or Intent objects.

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    // prior code
    handleIntent(getIntent());
}

@Override
protected void onNewIntent(Intent intent) {
    handleIntent(intent);
}

private void handleIntent(Intent intent) {

}

• Finally, inside of handleIntent, check to see what type of Intent you have.
  • We can check for search by...
  • Intent.ACTION_SEARCH.equals(intent.getAction()))
• IF this is a Search action, we want to get our user's query
  • intent.getStringExtra(SearchManager.QUERY)
• We can then send this data off to a Cursor, to a Toast, to whatever... we just have to tie it all together