This is an event that fires when the user presses the search button on Android.
document.addEventListener("searchbutton", yourCallbackFunction, false);
If you need to override the default search button behaviour on Android you can register an event listener for the ‘searchbutton’ event.
Typically, you will want to attach an event listener with document.addEventListener once you receive the PhoneGap ‘deviceready’ event.
document.addEventListener("searchbutton", onSearchKeyDown, false);
function onSearchKeyDown() {
// Handle the search button
}
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>PhoneGap Search Button Example</title>
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="phonegap.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
// Call onDeviceReady when PhoneGap is loaded.
//
// At this point, the document has loaded but phonegap.js has not.
// When PhoneGap is loaded and talking with the native device,
// it will call the event `deviceready`.
//
function onLoad() {
document.addEventListener("deviceready", onDeviceReady, false);
}
// PhoneGap is loaded and it is now safe to make calls PhoneGap methods
//
function onDeviceReady() {
// Register the event listener
document.addEventListener("searchbutton", onSearchKeyDown, false);
}
// Handle the search button
//
function onSearchKeyDown() {
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="onLoad()">
</body>
</html>