How to Implement Search for a Registered User Functionality in Social Media Android App?

This is the Part 9 of "Build a Social Media App on Android Studio" tutorial, and we are going to cover the following functionalities in this article:

• We are going to Search For a user on the Users Page.
• If there are few people registered in our app then it is easy to search for a person.
• But what happens when we have 1000 users registered in our app then searching for a particular user became a very complicated and time taking task.
• That's why we are implementing this feature to search for a user using the name or email provided.

Step By Step Implementation

Step 1: Working with the main_menu.xml file

Add the Search icon in the main_menu.xml file.

Step 2: Working with the UsersFragment.java file

Add the searchusers() in this file.

Below is the updated code for the UsersFragment.java file.

Output:

Note: Please Add drawable items before running the Application

Below is the file structure after performing these operations: