[android-developers] SearchView as part of the AlertDialog

Hi All,

I am trying to place the search widget [SearchView basically] in the
title part of an AlertDialog. Is that allowed i.e will it work? The
idea is to have the user enter a search word and when he/she presses
the "Enter" key on the keyboard, to use the search word entered to
search through an array of strings and display the result as a
listView in the same AlertDialog's body portion. The following is the
piece of relevant code.

AlertDialog.Builder dialogBuilder = new
AlertDialog.Builder(MainActivity.this);

RelativeLayout titleLayout = new RelativeLayout(this);
SearchView sv = new SearchView(this);
titleLayout.addView(sv);

dialogBuilder.setCustomTitle(titleLayout);

When i run this code, i see the search widget in the title alright.
The Virtual/Soft keyboard pops up when i click inside the search box -
but i am unable to type in it because the AlertDialog disappears as
soon as i click anywhere outside of it (as it should). I am wondering
if the keyboard is associated with the activity that is launching the
alertdialog instead of being in the context of the AlertDialog itself.

Any ideas?

TIA.

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