Android SearchRecentSuggestions - suggestions do not get displayed when typing in SearchView

Question

I have a working search widget and want to add search history suggestions. I followed the Android tutorial (http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/search/adding-recent-query-

Answer 1

I think the problem was, that the declaration of the SearchHistoryProvider in the Manifest.xml was wrong.

android:name=".SearchHistoryProvider"

Writing .$NAME is a shorthand for $DEFAULTPACKAGE.$NAME, so if your $DEFAULTPACKAGE is 'com.myapp' und you write .SearchHistoryProvider as the android:name of your Provider, Android will simply not find it, as it is located in com.mypackage, as the first line of the following code indicates.

package com.mypackage;

import android.content.SearchRecentSuggestionsProvider;

public class SearchHistoryProvider extends SearchRecentSuggestionsProvider {
    public final static String AUTHORITY = SearchHistoryProvider.class.getName();
    public final static int MODE = DATABASE_MODE_QUERIES;

    public SearchHistoryProvider() {
        setupSuggestions(AUTHORITY, MODE);
    }
}