# MaterialSearchView Library

DevFeed: [MaterialSearchView Library](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/materialsearchview-library-22824.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<http://androidessence.com/materialsearchview-library/>)

Author: Adam McNeilly

Published: 2016-04-22T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Android Essence](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/android-essence.md>)

Topics: [Android](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/android.md>), [Library](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/library.md>), [Material Design](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/material-design.md>)

Tags: [android](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android.md>), [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>), [library](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/library.md>), [material-design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/material-design.md>), [voice](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/voice.md>)

## AI overview

This article introduces the MaterialSearchView Android library, which provides a Material Design search overlay with text and voice input, recent or suggested searches, filtered results, and open and close animations. It is supported from min SDK 14.

## Source excerpt

Android has a built in SearchView component but it doesn't feel much like Material Design. This has even been asked on StackOverflow because developers are having trouble recreating the same MaterialSearchView that appears in many of Google's applications. However, thanks to one of my good friends Maurício, you can now implement this great component in your own projects!