ActionBar with Search Option and other options in Android.

First in your project “res” folder create a folder named “menu”. the create an xml inside this folder named “actions.xml”.
Now copy these to this xml.

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<?<span id="IL_AD4" class="IL_AD">xml version</span>="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">     <item android:id="@+id/action_search"           android:icon="@android:drawable/ic_menu_search"           android:title="Action Bar Search"           android:showAsAction="ifRoom"           android:actionViewClass="android.widget.SearchView" />     <item android:id="@+id/action_add"           android:icon="@android:drawable/ic_menu_add"           android:title="Action Bar Add" />     <item android:id="@+id/action_edit"           android:icon="@android:drawable/ic_menu_edit"           android:showAsAction="always"           android:title="Action Bar Edit" />     <item android:id="@+id/action_share"           android:icon="@android:drawable/ic_menu_share"           android:title="Action Bar Share"           android:showAsAction="ifRoom" /> </menu>

OK now we go to the java code. In your Activity file copy this code.

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<span id="IL_AD8" class="IL_AD">package</span> com.coderzheaven.actionbarsearch;   import android.app.Activity; import android.graphics.Color; import android.os.Bundle; import android.view.Menu; import android.view.MenuInflater; import android.view.MenuItem; import android.widget.SearchView; import android.widget.SearchView.OnQueryTextListener; import android.widget.TextView; import android.widget.Toast;   public class ActionBarWithSearch extends Activity  implements OnQueryTextListener {     TextView mSearchText;       @Override     protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {         super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);         mSearchText = new TextView(this);         mSearchText.setPadding(10, 10, 10, 10);         mSearchText.setText("Action Bar Usage example from CoderzHeaven");         setContentView(mSearchText);     }       @Override     public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {         MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();         inflater.inflate(R.menu.actions, menu);         SearchView searchView = (SearchView) menu.findItem(R.id.action_search).getActionView();         searchView.setOnQueryTextListener(this);         return true;     }       @Override     public boolean onPrepareOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {         return super.onPrepareOptionsMenu(menu);     }       @Override     public boolean    onOptionsItemSelected       (MenuItem item) {         Toast.makeText(this, "<span id="IL_AD3" class="IL_AD">Selected</span> Item: " + item.getTitle(), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();         return true;     }       // The following callbacks are called for the SearchView.OnQueryChangeListener     public boolean onQueryTextChange(String newText) {         newText = newText.isEmpty() ? "" : "Query so far: " + newText;         mSearchText.setText(newText);         mSearchText.setTextColor(Color.GREEN);         return true;     }       public boolean      onQueryTextSubmit      (String query) {         //Toast.makeText(this, "Searching for: " + query + "...", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();         mSearchText.setText("Searching for: " + query + "...");         mSearchText.setTextColor(Color.RED);         return true;     } }