In my Android app I enable my specific app-search to be triggered via the search key in a number of my activities using this mechanism from the manifest
<meta-data
android:name="android.app.default_searchable"
android:value=".Search.SearchActivity" />
with the appropriate search activity. This all worked fine until recently.
With the Jelly Bean update the Search Key now always starts Google NOW search functionality.
On this site: http://www.android.com/about/jelly-bean/ I found in the "Google Search" section this statement:
"For devices with a hardware search key, you can tap it to launch Google Search."
Has Google taken over all use of this key completely, or is there a way to recover it?
If I can't recover it, then it's UI design changes in almost all activities to add a Search menu option or action button....