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Added in API level 11

SearchView.OnSuggestionListener

Kotlin |Java

public static interface SearchView.OnSuggestionListener

android.widget.SearchView.OnSuggestionListener

Callback interface for selection events on suggestions. These callbacks are only relevant when a SearchableInfo has been specified by SearchView.setSearchableInfo(SearchableInfo).

Summary

Public methods
`abstract boolean`	`onSuggestionClick(int position)` Called when a suggestion was clicked.
`abstract boolean`	`onSuggestionSelect(int position)` Called when a suggestion was selected by navigating to it.

Public methods

onSuggestionClick

Added in API level 11

public abstract boolean onSuggestionClick (int position)

Called when a suggestion was clicked.

Parameters
`position`	`int`: the absolute position of the clicked item in the list of suggestions.

Returns
`boolean`	true if the listener handles the event and wants to override the default behavior of launching any intent or submitting a search query specified on that item. Return false otherwise.

onSuggestionSelect

Added in API level 11

public abstract boolean onSuggestionSelect (int position)

Called when a suggestion was selected by navigating to it.

Parameters
`position`	`int`: the absolute position in the list of suggestions.

Returns
`boolean`	true if the listener handles the event and wants to override the default behavior of possibly rewriting the query based on the selected item, false otherwise.

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Last updated 2026-08-03 UTC.

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