Android: finish activity when perform a search on SearchView

Question

I have a simple searchview to perfom search functions and but I want when someone search something to finish the current activity where the searchview is placed and add and a Transition effect and then open the activity with the results. But I can't find a way to do it. Thank you :)

Answer 1

There's a pretty good starting guide here: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/search/search-dialog.html . This one here is a bit more advanced: Implementing SearchView in action bar .

Answer 2

you can override the startActivty(Intent intent) method in your activity which has searchview.

@Override
public void startActivity(Intent intent) {
    finish();
    super.startActivity(intent);
    overridePendingTransition(R.anim.abc_slide_in_bottom, R.anim.abc_slide_out_top);
}

It worked for me. :)