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How to disable all clickable items in AppBarLayout?

I'm trying to disable all clickable items in the app bar layout when the opaque background appears after clicking the floating action button. But I also need to make sure that all the floating action buttons are all still clickable. I'm thinking maybe I can disable all items in the app bar programmatically?
How to achieve this?
UPDATE
Code to set fab visibility and animation. When the Fabs displayed, the tabs and toolbar finally disabled and unclickable. But i want to make my Fabs still clickable. How can i do this? Please advice. Thank you!
public void fabVisibility(){
if (isOpen){
getWindow().clearFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_NOT_TOUCHABLE);
fabActivity.startAnimation(fabClose);
textViewActivities.startAnimation(fabClose);
fabPost.startAnimation(fabClose);
textViewPosts.startAnimation(fabClose);
fabMedia.startAnimation(fabClose);
textViewMedia.startAnimation(fabClose);
fabPlus.startAnimation(fabRotateAntiClockwise);
fabActivity.setClickable(false);
fabPost.setClickable(false);
fabMedia.setClickable(false);
shadowView.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
isOpen = false;
}else {
getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_NOT_TOUCHABLE, WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_NOT_TOUCHABLE);
fabActivity.startAnimation(fabOpen);
textViewActivities.startAnimation(fabOpen);
fabPost.startAnimation(fabOpen);
textViewPosts.startAnimation(fabOpen);
fabMedia.startAnimation(fabOpen);
textViewMedia.startAnimation(fabOpen);
fabPlus.startAnimation(fabRotateClockwise);
fabPlus.setEnabled(true);
fabActivity.setClickable(true);
fabActivity.setEnabled(true);
fabPost.setClickable(true);
fabPost.setEnabled(true);
fabMedia.setClickable(true);
fabMedia.setEnabled(true);
shadowView.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
isOpen = true;
}
}

To disable the user interaction you just need to add the following code
getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_NOT_TOUCHABLE,
WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_NOT_TOUCHABLE);
To get user interaction back you just need to add the following code
getWindow().clearFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_NOT_TOUCHABLE);

To disable action bar (app bar) buttons on clicking FAB icon, you could set a flag, let's say DisableAppBarButton.
Now call invalidateOptionsMenu() which will trigger onCreateOptionsMenu and will regenerate your menu.
Modify your onCreateOptionsMenu to disable the buttons.
if (DisableAppBarButton) {
menu.someItem(R.id.yourItem).setEnabled(false);
} else {
menu.someItem(R.id.yourItem).setEnabled(true);
}

Two options:
1 - You can set a view group to be disabled by recursively setting all of its children disabled. Example:
public static setEnabled(View view, boolean enabled) {
view.setEnabled(enabled);
if (view instanceof ViewGroup) {
ViewGroup viewGroup = (ViewGroup) view;
for (int i = 0; i < viewGroup.getChildCount(); i++) {
setEnabled(viewGroup.getChild(i), enabled);
}
}
}
Then in your code in response to the FAB showing or hiding:
ViewUtil.setEnabled(mAppBarLayout, true /* or false */);
2 - You can make the opaque background focusable and clickable to intercept clicks while it's overlayed over the app bar, while the FAB buttons that float above that background would still receive clicks.
Hope that helps!

Change the actionbar homeAsUpIndicator Programmatically

I used the following hack to change the homeAsupIndicator programmatically.
int upId = Resources.getSystem().getIdentifier("up", "id", "android");
if (upId > 0) {
ImageView up = (ImageView) findViewById(upId);
up.setImageResource(R.drawable.ic_action_bar_menu);
up.setPadding(0, 0, 20, 0);
}
But this is not working on most new phones (HTC One, Galaxy S3, etc). Is there a way that can be changed uniformly across devices. I need it to be changed only on home screen. Other screens would have the default one. So cannot use the styles.xml

This is what i did to acheive the behavior. I inherited the base theme and created a new theme to use it as a theme for the specific activity.
<style name="CustomActivityTheme" parent="AppTheme">
<item name="android:homeAsUpIndicator">#drawable/custom_home_as_up_icon</item>
</style>
and in the android manifest i made the activity theme as the above.
<activity
android:name="com.example.CustomActivity"
android:theme="#style/CustomActivityTheme" >
</activity>
works great. Will update again when i check on all devices I have. Thanks #faylon for pointing in the right direction

The question was to change dynamically the Up Home Indicator, although this answer was accepting and it is about Themes and Styles. I found a way to do this programmatically, according to Adneal's answer which gives me the clue and specially the right way to do. I used the below snippet code and it works well on (tested) devices with APIs mentioned here.
For lower APIs, I use R.id.up which is not available on higher API. That's why, I retrieve this id by a little workaround which is getting the parent of home button (android.R.id.home) and its first child (android.R.id.up):
if(Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.ICE_CREAM_SANDWICH) {
// get the parent view of home (app icon) imageview
ViewGroup home = (ViewGroup) findViewById(android.R.id.home).getParent();
// get the first child (up imageview)
( (ImageView) home.getChildAt(0) )
// change the icon according to your needs
.setImageResource(R.drawable.custom_icon_up));
} else {
// get the up imageview directly with R.id.up
( (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.up) )
.setImageResource(R.drawable.custom_icon_up));
}
Note: If you don't use the SDK condition, you will get some NullPointerException.

API 18 has new methods ActionBar.setHomeAsUpIndicator() - unfortunately these aren't supported in the support library at this moment
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/ActionBar.html#setHomeAsUpIndicator(android.graphics.drawable.Drawable)
edit: these are now supported by the support library
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v7/app/ActionBar.html#setHomeAsUpIndicator(android.graphics.drawable.Drawable)

All you need to do is to use this line of code:
getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
This will change the icon with the up indicator. To disable it later, just call this function again and pass false as the param.

The solution by checking Resources.getSystem() doesn't work on all devices, A better solution to change the homeAsUpIndicator is to set it #null in style and change the logo resource programmatically.
Below is my code from style.xml
<style name="Theme.HomeScreen" parent="AppBaseTheme">
<item name="displayOptions">showHome|useLogo</item>
<item name="homeAsUpIndicator">#null</item>
<item name="android:homeAsUpIndicator">#null</item>
</style>
In code you can change the logo using setLogo() method.
getSupportActionBar().setLogo(R.drawable.abc_ic_ab_back_holo_light); //for ActionBarCompat
getActionBar().setLogo(R.drawable.abc_ic_ab_back_holo_light); //for default actionbar for post 3.0 devices
Also note that the Android API 18 has methods to edit the homeAsUpIndicator programatically, refer documentation.

You can achieve this in an easier way. Try to can change the homeAsUpIndicator attribute of actionBarStyle in your theme.xml and styles.xml.
If you want some padding, just add some white space in your image.

You can try this:
this.getSupportActionBar().setHomeAsUpIndicator( R.drawable.actionbar_indicator ); //for ActionBarCompat
this.getActionBar().setHomeAsUpIndicator( R.drawable.actionbar_indicator ); //for default actionbar for post 3.0 devices
If you need change the position of the icon, you must create a drawable file containing a "layer-list" like this:
actionbar_indicator.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<item
android:drawable="#drawable/indicator"
android:right="5dp"
android:left="10dp" />
</layer-list>

use getActionBar().setCustomView(int yourView); because ActionBar haven't method to change homeUp icon!

Adding to Fllo answer Change the actionbar homeAsUpIndicator Programamtically
I was able to use this hack on Android 4+ but could not understand why the up/home indicator was back to the default one when search widget was expanded. Looking at the view hierarchy, turns out that the up/home indicator + icon section of the action bar has 2 implementations and of course the first on is the one for when the search widget is not expanded. So here is the code I used to work around this and get the up/home indicator changed in both cases.
mSearchItem.setOnActionExpandListener(new MenuItem.OnActionExpandListener() {
#Override
public boolean onMenuItemActionExpand(MenuItem item) {
// https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17585892/change-the-actionbar-homeasupindicator-programamtically
int actionBarId = getResources().getIdentifier("android:id/action_bar", null, null);
View view = getActivity().getWindow().getDecorView().findViewById(actionBarId);
if (view == null
|| !(view instanceof ViewGroup)) {
return true;
}
final ViewGroup actionBarView = (ViewGroup)view;
// The second home view is only inflated after
// setOnActionExpandListener() is first called
actionBarView.post(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
//The 2 ActionBarView$HomeView views are always children of the same view group
//However, they are not always children of the ActionBarView itself
//(depends on OS version)
int upId = getResources().getIdentifier("android:id/up", null, null);
View upView = actionBarView.findViewById(upId);
ViewParent viewParent = upView.getParent();
if (viewParent == null) {
return;
}
viewParent = viewParent.getParent();
if (viewParent == null
|| !(viewParent instanceof ViewGroup)) {
return;
}
ViewGroup viewGroup = (ViewGroup) viewParent;
int childCount = viewGroup.getChildCount();
for (int i = 0; i < childCount; i++) {
View childView = viewGroup.getChildAt(i);
if (childView instanceof ViewGroup) {
ViewGroup homeView = (ViewGroup) childView;
upView = homeView.findViewById(upId);
if (upView != null
&& upView instanceof ImageView) {
Drawable upDrawable = getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.ic_ab_back_holo_dark_am);
upDrawable.setColorFilter(accentColorInt, PorterDuff.Mode.MULTIPLY);
((ImageView) upView).setImageDrawable(upDrawable);
}
}
}
}
});

If someone uses the library support-v7 appcompat, you can directly call this method:
getSupportActionBar().setHomeAsUpIndicator(int redId)
In other case you can use this solution:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/23522910/944630

If you are using DrawerLayout with ActionBarDrawerToggle, then check out this answer.

this.getSupportActionBar().setDisplayUseLogoEnabled(true);
this.getSupportActionBar().setLogo(R.drawable.about_selected);
Also you can define the logo in manifest in attribute android:logo of and tags and set in theme that you want to use logo instead of app icon in the action bar.

How to change home as up resource programmatically?

I know how to change the homeAsUpIndicator in the styles xml file. The question is how to change it programmatically.
The reason I want to do it because in some views I support side navigation (sliding menu) - pressing the up/back title button, shows the side menu.
In other views I support the natural up/back botton.
Thus I would like to different indicator icons to indicate the two different logics - side navigation vs. up/back.
Please, lets not argue on the motivation of doing this. That's the given state. Thanks.

int upId = Resources.getSystem().getIdentifier("up", "id", "android");
if (upId > 0) {
ImageView up = (ImageView) findViewById(upId);
up.setImageResource(R.drawable.ic_drawer_indicator);
}

The solution by #matthias doesn't work on all devices, A better solution to change the homeAsUpIndicator is to set it #null in style and change the logo resource programmatically.
Below is my code from style.xml
<style name="Theme.HomeScreen" parent="AppBaseTheme">
<item name="displayOptions">showHome|useLogo</item>
<item name="homeAsUpIndicator">#null</item>
<item name="android:homeAsUpIndicator">#null</item>
</style>
In code you can change the logo using setLogo() method.
getSupportActionBar().setLogo(R.drawable.abc_ic_ab_back_holo_light); //for ActionBarCompat
getActionBar().setLogo(R.drawable.abc_ic_ab_back_holo_light); //for default actionbar for post 3.0 devices
Also note that the Android API 18 has methods to edit the homeAsUpIndicator programatically, refer documentation.

This worked for me
getSupportActionBar().setHomeAsUpIndicator(R.drawable.my_home_as_up)

Although this answer might achieve the expected behaviour, as you can read in the comments below it: "This hack does not work on some devices". I found another way according to Adneal's answer which gives me the clue and specially the right way to do.
Lower API: use id R.id.up to retrieve the related ImageView.
API >= 14: get the relative Parent of Home ImageView (android.R.id.home) and retrieve the first child which is the UpIndicator (android.R.id.up).
Then, this snippet code changes dynamically the UpIndicator:
if(Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.ICE_CREAM_SANDWICH) {
// get the parent view of home (app icon) imageview
ViewGroup home = (ViewGroup) findViewById(android.R.id.home).getParent();
// get the first child (up imageview)
( (ImageView) home.getChildAt(0) )
// change the icon according to your needs
.setImageDrawable(getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.custom_icon_up));
} else {
// get the up imageview directly with R.id.up
( (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.up) )
.setImageDrawable(getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.custom_icon_up));
}
I have not tested on multiple devices (that's why I'm not sure this above code works for all devices), however this seems to work great in APIs mentioned in the update part here.
Note: If you don't make the difference between higher and lower APIs, you will get a NullPointerException because R.id.up is not available in higher API while android.R.id.up is not available in lower API.

I write solution for this. It's not beautiful but works:
public static ImageView getHomeAndUpIndicator(View decorView) {
ImageView res = null;
int upId = Resources.getSystem().getIdentifier("up", "id", "android");
if (upId > 0) {
res = (ImageView) decorView.findViewById(upId);
} else {
if (android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT <= 10) {
ViewGroup acbOverlay = (ViewGroup)((ViewGroup)decorView).getChildAt(0);
ViewGroup abcFrame = (ViewGroup)acbOverlay.getChildAt(0);
ViewGroup actionBar = (ViewGroup)abcFrame.getChildAt(0);
ViewGroup abLL = (ViewGroup)actionBar.getChildAt(0);
ViewGroup abLL2 = (ViewGroup)abLL.getChildAt(1);
res = (ImageView)abLL2.getChildAt(0);
} else if (android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT > 10 && android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < 16) {
ViewGroup acbOverlay = (ViewGroup)((ViewGroup)decorView).getChildAt(0);
ViewGroup abcFrame = (ViewGroup)acbOverlay.getChildAt(0);
ViewGroup actionBar = (ViewGroup)abcFrame.getChildAt(0);
ViewGroup abLL = (ViewGroup)actionBar.getChildAt(1);
res = (ImageView)abLL.getChildAt(0);
} else {
ViewGroup acbOverlay = (ViewGroup)((ViewGroup)decorView).getChildAt(0);
ViewGroup abcFrame = (ViewGroup)acbOverlay.getChildAt(1);
ViewGroup actionBar = (ViewGroup)abcFrame.getChildAt(0);
ViewGroup abLL = (ViewGroup)actionBar.getChildAt(0);
ViewGroup abF = (ViewGroup)abLL.getChildAt(0);
res = (ImageView)abF.getChildAt(0);
}
}
return res;
}
As a param put: getWindow().getDecorView()
Test on few devices (nexus 7 (4.4.2), samsung galaxy s+ (2.3.6), yaiu g3 (4.2.2)) and emulators with android 2.3.3 and 4.1.1

Here is working code
final Drawable upArrow = getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.ic_arrow_back_black_24dp);
upArrow.setColorFilter(Color.parseColor("#000000"), PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_ATOP);
getSupportActionBar().setHomeAsUpIndicator(upArrow);

How to remove icons from an ActionBarSherlock's overflow menu on Android 2.3?

I have an app with ActionBarSherlock using theme Theme.Sherlock.Light.DarkActionBar. Action bar is dark and my menu icons are light. When I run my app on small layouts, 2 or 3 menu items with icons are displayed in the overflow menu.
On Android 3+ the overflow menu items will not display their icons, but on Android 2.3 and earlier I see menu tiles with almost invisible icons, because the tile color is white and icons are close to be white.
As you can see, the light icons are invisible on a white background, but they must have light color to be visible on a dark action bar:
Can I remove icons when menu items are displayed in the overflow menu?

you could use configuration qualifiers.
e.g.
make a drawable folder
/res/drawable-v11/ put all the "light" icons in it.
and for the darker icons use the
/res/drawable/ folder.
be sure to use the same filenames in both folders.
I hope I have understood your problem and this might help you.
However, if you want to change the drawables JUST for the overflow menu, I don't think it's possible. Also because the menu icons are not intended to be used like that. ActionBarSherlock is probably also because of issues like this, not an official library.

I was also facing the same issue:
there are many ways you can achieve this rather than removing image:
1)you can use respective drawable folder to put light and dark image.
2)You can also change the background color by code of your menu by checking your device version.
If you device doen't support overflow menu, the, you can change the background color of your menu as well as you can also change menu text color.
I was also facing the same issue and resolved using following one:
static final Class<?>[] constructorSignature = new Class[] {Context.class, AttributeSet.class};
class MenuColorFix implements LayoutInflater.Factory {
public View onCreateView(String name, Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
if (name.equalsIgnoreCase("com.android.internal.view.menu.ListMenuItemView")) {
try {
Class<? extends ViewGroup> clazz = context.getClassLoader().loadClass(name).asSubclass(ViewGroup.class);
Constructor<? extends ViewGroup> constructor = clazz.getConstructor(constructorSignature);
final ViewGroup view = constructor.newInstance(new Object[]{context,attrs});
new Handler().post(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
try {
view.setBackgroundColor(Color.BLACK);
List<View> children = getAllChildren(view);
for(int i = 0; i< children.size(); i++) {
View child = children.get(i);
if ( child instanceof TextView ) {
((TextView)child).setTextColor(Color.WHITE);
}
}
}
catch (Exception e) {
Log.i(TAG, "Caught Exception!",e);
}
}
});
return view;
}
catch (Exception e) {
Log.i(TAG, "Caught Exception!",e);
}
}
return null;
}
}
public List<View> getAllChildren(ViewGroup vg) {
ArrayList<View> result = new ArrayList<View>();
for ( int i = 0; i < vg.getChildCount(); i++ ) {
View child = vg.getChildAt(i);
if ( child instanceof ViewGroup) {
result.addAll(getAllChildren((ViewGroup)child));
}
else {
result.add(child);
}
}
return result;
}
#Override
public void onCreateContextMenu(ContextMenu menu, View v, ContextMenuInfo menuInfo) {
LayoutInflater lInflater = getLayoutInflater();
if ( lInflater.getFactory() == null ) {
lInflater.setFactory(new MenuColorFix());
}
super.onCreateContextMenu(menu, v, menuInfo);
MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
inflater.inflate(R.menu.myMenu, menu);
}
3) change background color from styles.xml file
<style name="Theme.MyTheme" parent="Theme.Sherlock.ForceOverflow">
<item name="actionBarStyle">#style/Widget.MyTheme.ActionBar</item>
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">#style/Widget.MyTheme.ActionBar</item>
</style>
<style name="Widget.MyTheme.ActionBar" parent="Widget.Sherlock.ActionBar">
<item name="android:background">#ff000000</item>
<item name="background">#ff000000</item>
</style>
For me, all of the 3 worked fine
Hope, this will work for you as well

Another option is to remove the icons from the non-action items in onPrepareOptionsMenu.
The idea is to use actionbarsherlock's MenuItemImpl.isActionButton to figure out if each item is an action item, and if not to remove the icon. This is made a little bit tricky because onPrepareOptionsMenu is called (at least) twice by ABS - the first time when it is building the action bar, in which case MenuItemImpl.isActionButton has not yet been set and will always return false. If that's the case, you want to leave the icons alone. Once the action bar has been built the isActionButton method will return true for action bar items, false otherwise. So you want to remove the icons for the ones that return false. This is what I came up with:
#Override
public boolean onPrepareOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB) {
boolean buildingOptionsMenu = false;
for (int i=0; i<menu.size(); ++i) {
MenuItemImpl mi = (MenuItemImpl)menu.getItem(i);
if (mi.isActionButton()) {
buildingOptionsMenu = true;
break;
}
}
if (buildingOptionsMenu) {
for (int i=0; i<menu.size(); ++i) {
MenuItemImpl mi = (MenuItemImpl)menu.getItem(i);
if (!mi.isActionButton()) {
mi.setIcon(null);
mi.setIcon(0);
}
}
}
}
return super.onPrepareOptionsMenu(menu);
}
You'll need these two imports:
import com.actionbarsherlock.view.Menu;
import com.actionbarsherlock.internal.view.menu.MenuItemImpl;
This works in ABS 4.3.0, but since it uses internal library classes it might not work with other versions of the library.

OS 2.x was a mess since the options menu background could be black or white, depending on the device, with no way to know which for sure.
The easy fix was to use grey (#888888) icons for Android 2.x & under and put your modern (ICS/JB) icons in a v11 folder for modern devices:
drawable // old school icons
drawable-v11 // modern icons
Of course that means drawable-mdpi-v11, drawable-hdpi-v11, and so on.

A simple alternative to adding a whole set of duplicate dark icons for 2.x versions can be simply removing the icons from all the items that can go to the overflow menu. For example:
res/menu
<item
android:id="#+id/menu_send_email"
android:showAsAction="ifRoom"
android:title="#string/menu_send_email"/>
res/menu-v11 (or even res/menu-v9, because 2.3 usually has a dark menu)
<item
android:id="#+id/menu_send_email"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_action_send_email"
android:showAsAction="ifRoom"
android:title="#string/menu_send_email"/>
Of course, you need to make the titles short enough to fit into the ActionBar at least on some larger screens, or settle with the fact that they always go into the overflow.

Honeycomb - customize SearchView inside the action bar

I have a field where the user can type a search query in the action bar of the application. This is declared in the action bar using a menu inflate in the Activity:
<menu
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
>
<item
android:id="#+id/action_search"
android:showAsAction="ifRoom"
android:actionViewClass="android.widget.SearchView"
android:title="#string/search"
></item>
</menu>
I need to customize the appearance of the SearchView (for instance background and text color). So far I could not find a way to do it using XML (using styles or themes).
Is my only option to do it in the code when inflating the menu?
Edit #1: I have tried programmatically but I cannot get a simple way to set the text color. Plus when I do searchView.setBackgroundResource(...) The background is set on the global widget, (also when the SearchView is iconified).
Edit #2: Not much information on the Search Developer Reference either

Seibelj had an answer that is good if you want to change the icons. But you'll need to
do it for every API version. I was using ICS with ActionBarSherlock and it didn't do justice for me but it did push me in the correct direction.
Below I change the text color and hint color. I showed how you might go about changing the
icons too, though I have no interest in that for now (and you probably want to use the default icons anyways to be consistent)
#Override
public boolean onPrepareOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
// Set up the search menu
SearchView searchView = (SearchView)menu.findItem(R.id.action_search).getActionView();
traverseView(searchView, 0);
return true;
}
private void traverseView(View view, int index) {
if (view instanceof SearchView) {
SearchView v = (SearchView) view;
for(int i = 0; i < v.getChildCount(); i++) {
traverseView(v.getChildAt(i), i);
}
} else if (view instanceof LinearLayout) {
LinearLayout ll = (LinearLayout) view;
for(int i = 0; i < ll.getChildCount(); i++) {
traverseView(ll.getChildAt(i), i);
}
} else if (view instanceof EditText) {
((EditText) view).setTextColor(Color.WHITE);
((EditText) view).setHintTextColor(R.color.blue_trans);
} else if (view instanceof TextView) {
((TextView) view).setTextColor(Color.WHITE);
} else if (view instanceof ImageView) {
// TODO dissect images and replace with custom images
} else {
Log.v("View Scout", "Undefined view type here...");
}
}

adding my take on things which is probably a little more efficient and safe across different android versions.
you can actually get a numeric ID value from a string ID name. using android's hierarchyviewer tool, you can actually find the string IDs of the things you are interested in, and then just use findViewById(...) to look them up.
the code below sets the hint and text color for the edit field itself. you could apply the same pattern for other aspects that you wish to style.
private static synchronized int getSearchSrcTextId(View view) {
if (searchSrcTextId == -1) {
searchSrcTextId = getId(view, "android:id/search_src_text");
}
return searchSrcTextId;
}
private static int getId(View view, String name) {
return view.getContext().getResources().getIdentifier(name, null, null);
}
#TargetApi(11)
private void style(View view) {
ImageView iv;
AutoCompleteTextView actv = (AutoCompleteTextView) view.findViewById(getSearchSrcTextId(view));
if (actv != null) {
actv.setHint(getDecoratedHint(actv,
searchView.getContext().getResources().getString(R.string.titleApplicationSearchHint),
R.drawable.ic_ab_search));
actv.setTextColor(view.getContext().getResources().getColor(R.color.ab_text));
actv.setHintTextColor(view.getContext().getResources().getColor(R.color.hint_text));
}
}

You can use the attribute android:actionLayout instead which lets you specify a layout to be inflated. Just have a layout with your SearchView and you won't have to modify anything really.
As to changing text style on the SearchView that is probably not possible as the SearchView is a ViewGroup. You should probably try changing text color via themes instead.

In case anyone wants to modify the views directly, here is how you can change the colors/fonts/images and customize the search box to your pleasure. It is wrapped in a try/catch in case there are differences between versions or distributions, so it won't crash the app if this fails.
// SearchView structure as we currently understand it:
// 0 => linearlayout
// 0 => textview (not sure what this does)
// 1 => image view (the search icon before it's pressed)
// 2 => linearlayout
// 0 => linearlayout
// 0 => ImageView (Search icon on the left of the search box)
// 1 => SearchView$SearchAutoComplete (Object that controls the text, subclass of TextView)
// 2 => ImageView (Cancel icon to the right of the text entry)
// 1 => linearlayout
// 0 => ImageView ('Go' icon to the right of cancel)
// 1 => ImageView (not sure what this does)
try {
LinearLayout ll = (LinearLayout) searchView.getChildAt(0);
LinearLayout ll2 = (LinearLayout) ll.getChildAt(2);
LinearLayout ll3 = (LinearLayout) ll2.getChildAt(0);
LinearLayout ll4 = (LinearLayout) ll2.getChildAt(1);
TextView search_text = (TextView) ll3.getChildAt(1);
search_text.setTextColor(R.color.search_text);
ImageView cancel_icon = (ImageView)ll3.getChildAt(2);
ImageView accept_icon = (ImageView)ll4.getChildAt(0);
cancel_icon.setBackgroundDrawable(d);
accept_icon.setBackgroundDrawable(d);
} catch (Throwable e) {
Log.e("SearchBoxConstructor", "Unable to set the custom look of the search box");
}
This example shows changing the text color and the background colors of the cancel/accept images. searchView is a SearchView object already instantiated with it's background color:
Drawable d = getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.search_widget_background);
searchView.setBackgroundDrawable(d);
Here is the drawable code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:shape="rectangle" >
<solid android:color="#color/white" />
</shape>
Obviously, this is hacky, but it will work for now.

From ICS this is doable using themes and styles. I'm using ActionBarSherlock which makes it applicable also for HC and below.
Add a style to define "android:textColorHint":
<style name="Theme.MyHolo.widget" parent="#style/Theme.Holo">
<item name="android:textColorHint">#color/text_hint_corp_dark</item>
</style>
Apply this as "actionBarWidgetTheme" to your theme:
<style name="Theme.MyApp" parent="#style/Theme.Holo.Light.DarkActionBar">
...
<item name="android:actionBarWidgetTheme">#style/Theme.MyHolo.widget</item>
</style>
Presto! Make sure that you use getSupportActionBar().getThemedContext() (or getSupportActionBar() for ActionBarSherlock) if any widgets are initiated where you might have other themes in effect.

How do you inflate the menu xml in your Activity? if you inflate the menu by using getMenuInflator() in your Activity, then the menu and also the searchView get the themed context, that have attached to the activity.
#Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
getMenuInflater.inflate(R.menu.search_action_menu, menu);
}
if you check the source code of Activity.getMenuInflator() at API-15, you can see the themed context codes. Here it is.
*/
public MenuInflater getMenuInflater() {
// Make sure that action views can get an appropriate theme.
if (mMenuInflater == null) {
initActionBar();
if (mActionBar != null) {
mMenuInflater = new MenuInflater(mActionBar.getThemedContext());
} else {
mMenuInflater = new MenuInflater(this);
}
}
return mMenuInflater;
}