Get result from SearchManager activity to Main Activity in android

Use Case: Activity A is main activity. Whereas Activity B is SearcActivity (SearchManager). Activity B is ListActivity, so whatever result comes, result is displayed in the list. Once user clicks on the list, I want to get that list selected item to be returned to ActivityA.

What I did? I could call SearchActivity on button using "onSearchRequested()". In ActivityB, I am displaying searchresult via "setListAdapter(adapter)". Using "onListItemClick", I can get what option in list was selected by user.

Now I tried sending result back to ActivityA by following code

Intent intent = new Intent();
Bundle bundle = new Bundle();
bundle.putString("item", l.getItemAtPosition(position).toString());
intent.putExtras(bundle);
setResult(RESULT_OK, getIntent() );
finish();

And in ActivityA, I tried reading the result in "onActivityResult".

Bundle bundle = data.getExtras();
String strItem = bundle.getString("item");
AlertDialog alertDialog = new AlertDialog.Builder(this).create();
alertDialog.setTitle("Item Selected");
alertDialog.setMessage("Item = " + strItem);
alertDialog.setButton("OK", new DialogInterface.开发者_StackOverflow社区OnClickListener() {
 public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
  return;
 }
});
alertDialog.show();

Problem: I noticed that, once Activity A is resumed, "onActivityResult" is not called at all. Hence I am not seeing any dialog. Plus I can't verify whether SearchActivity actually sends anything to ActivityA.

So friends, how can I capture the data sent by ActivityB.

I think this is a duplicate to How to handle callback from Search Manager?.

Mario Lenci is right that your Activity B is not started with startActivityForResult when calling onSearchRequested().

See my answer to that question here. Essentially you can instead make Activity A your searchable activity to get the query and manually launch Activity B for a result.

Is it you probably wanted to write:

setResult(RESULT_OK, intent );

instead of

setResult(RESULT_OK, getIntent() );

see the function call?