How to get the value of android activity?

How can I get the text entered into a search box in android?

• I am creating my first real android app. I have an action bar with a search widget in it, and I do not know how to get the entered search term and do something with it. I want to be able to get the search term then query it to an online api and return the results in a list view. Here is my code so far: My main activity looks like this: http://pastebin.com/Pi4zJpRT and I am getting this error: The method setOnQueryTextListener(SearchView.OnQueryTextListener) in the type SearchView is not applicable for the arguments (new OnQueryTextListener(){})

• Answer:

  To fix this error, try importing OnQueryTextListener class. Would recommend you to look into android sample application - SearchableDictionary that comes with the Android SDK samples and this tutorial - http://developer.android.com/training/search/index.html Though this tutorial shows you how to create a SQLite virtual table that is populated from "definitions.txt" file inside resources/raw folder, you can modify it to fetch data from an online database.