I'm trying to change direction of SearchView in toolbar, and this is my try
layout.xml
android:layoutDirection="rtl"
menu.xml
<item android:id="#+id/action_search"
android:title="#string/search_hint"
android:icon="#mipmap/ic_search_icon"
app:showAsAction="ifRoom|collapseActionView"
app:actionViewClass="android.support.v7.widget.SearchView" />
Java code:
MenuItem searchItem = menu.findItem(R.id.action_search);
SearchView mSearchView = (SearchView) MenuItemCompat.getActionView(searchItem);
getSupportActionBar().setCustomView(MenuItemCompat.getActionView(searchItem));
mSearchView.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT);
mSearchView.setQueryHint(getString(R.string.search_hint));
mSearchView.setGravity(Gravity.RIGHT);
mSearchView.setTextDirection(View.TEXT_DIRECTION_RTL);
mSearchView.setTextAlignment(View.TEXT_ALIGNMENT_GRAVITY);
mSearchView.setLayoutDirection(View.LAYOUT_DIRECTION_RTL);
mSearchView.setLayoutParams(new ActionBar.LayoutParams(Gravity.RIGHT));
And this is the result, I success added the SearchView to toolbar and is RTL now. But the issue is position of "X" (closeButton) is wrong, the position must be at left.
add this for change x direction:
View xIcon = ((ViewGroup) mSearchView.getChildAt(0)).getChildAt(2);
xIcon.setLayoutDirection(View.LAYOUT_DIRECTION_RTL);
To Support Rtl in your App. you have to set android:supportsRtl="true" in your manifest.xml.
And Most Important point keep in Mind
Change all of your app's "Left/Right" layout properties to Start/End.
In you case you are setting.
mSearchView.setGravity(Gravity.RIGHT);
so change it to
mSearchView.setGravity(Gravity.END);
and also change here this
mSearchView.setLayoutParams(new ActionBar.LayoutParams(Gravity.RIGHT));
to
mSearchView.setLayoutParams(new ActionBar.LayoutParams(Gravity.END));
You can use this method to move closeButton to right in RTL locales:
private static void handleCloseButtonRtlIssue(SearchView searchView) {
((LinearLayout) ((LinearLayout) searchView.getChildAt(0)).getChildAt(2)).getChildAt(1).setLayoutDirection(View.LAYOUT_DIRECTION_LTR);
}
the problem is that when you change layoutDirection to rtl, toolbar itself will become rtl. but layoutDirection for other layouts inside toobar will not change. and editText with close button are in a nested layout.
so you have to find parent layout and change direction for that. if you see inside SearchView layout file. you'll find that exit button is inside a layout with search_plate id
so in onCreateOptionsMenu after setup SearchView do this
kotlin
mSearchView.findViewById<View>(R.id.search_plate)?.let {
it.layoutDirection = View.LAYOUT_DIRECTION_RTL
}
java
((View) mSearchView.findViewById(R.id.search_plate))
.setLayoutDirection(View.LAYOUT_DIRECTION_RTL)
Update
or you can use this kotlin extention for other rtl problem as well.
fun ViewGroup.rtl() {
val stack = Stack<View>()
stack.add(this)
while (stack.isNotEmpty()) {
stack.pop().apply {
layoutDirection = View.LAYOUT_DIRECTION_RTL
textDirection = View.TEXT_DIRECTION_RTL
(this as? ViewGroup)?.children?.forEach { stack.add(it) }
}
}
}
use it like this
view.rtl() //and view become rtl :)
Spent far too long on this problem now. Have solved most of it, but still struggling with the search hint icon. Having searched extensively this following bit of code does work in my fragment
#Override
public void onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu, MenuInflater inflater) {
SearchManager searchManager = (SearchManager) getActivity().getSystemService(Context.SEARCH_SERVICE);
mSearchView = (SearchView) menu.findItem(R.id.action_search).getActionView();
mSearchView.setSearchableInfo(searchManager.getSearchableInfo(getActivity().getComponentName()));
mSearchView.setIconifiedByDefault(true);
int id = mSearchView.getContext().getResources().getIdentifier("android:id/search_src_text", null, null);
mSearchViewTextView = (TextView) mSearchView.findViewById(id);
mSearchViewTextView.setTextColor(Color.WHITE);
mSearchViewTextView.setHintTextColor(Color.WHITE);
mSearchViewTextView.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.action_textfield_search_alpha);
mSearchViewSsb = new SpannableStringBuilder(" ");
mSearchViewSsb.append(getResources().getString(R.string.fragment_friend_add_search_hint));
Drawable searchHintIcon = ContextCompat.getDrawable(MyApplication.getContext(), R.drawable.action_search);
int textSize = (int) (mSearchViewTextView.getTextSize() * 1.25);
searchHintIcon.setBounds(0, 0, textSize, textSize);
mSearchViewSsb.setSpan(new ImageSpan(searchHintIcon), 1, 2, Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
mSearchViewTextView.setText(mSearchViewSsb);
int id1 = android.support.v7.appcompat.R.id.search_close_btn;
ImageView searchCloseIcon = (ImageView) mSearchView.findViewById(id1);
searchCloseIcon.setImageResource(R.drawable.action_close);
int id2 = android.support.v7.appcompat.R.id.search_button;
ImageView searchIcon = (ImageView) mSearchView.findViewById(id2);
searchIcon.setImageResource(R.drawable.action_search);
super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu, getActivity().getMenuInflater());
mSearchView.setOnSearchClickListener(...);
mSearchView.setOnQueryTextListener(...);
}
However, it only works once when I call it in onCreateOptionsMenu. I have tried to reuse it in setOnQueryTextListener, but no matter what I do the application then either crashes or just ignores the change.
Also, when it is set once the curious thing is that the first time you have to press the cancel button twice, the first time you press the cancel button the SearchView TextView has all of the enhancements but the SearchHint Icon goes back to its original form.
All I need is that SearchHint icon to be white.
My theme is set to Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar
If you just want to make the icon white you can add the following code to your menu file
<item
android:id="#+id/action_search"
android:icon="#drawable/abc_ic_search_api_mtrl_alpha"
android:title="#string/search"
app:actionViewClass="android.support.v7.widget.SearchView"
app:showAsAction="always|collapseActionView"/>
I'm using android.support.v7.widget.SearchView and i need to make this search icon GONE.
I have custom ActionBar layout with SearchView:
<android.support.v7.widget.SearchView
android:id="#+id/search"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:visibility="gone"/>
initialize SearchView :
searchView = (SearchView) findViewById(R.id.search);
AutoCompleteTextView searchText = (AutoCompleteTextView) searchView.findViewById(R.id.search_src_text);
searchText.setPadding(0, 0, 0, -padding);
searchText.setHintTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.light_gray));
View searchPlate = searchView.findViewById(R.id.search_plate);
searchPlate.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.searchview_textfield);
View close = searchPlate.findViewById(R.id.search_close_btn);
close.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.selectable_background_orange);
I was trying to customize searchIcon like this:
ImageView icon = (ImageView)searchView.findViewById(android.support.v7.appcompat.R.id.search_mag_icon);
trying to set everything from here Android SearchView Icon but it's not that ImageView.
Can anyone help me plz?
public static void setSearchViewEditTextHint(Context context, SearchView searchView, int stringId){
int searchMagIconId = context.getResources().getIdentifier("android:id/search_src_text", null, null);
TextView textView = (TextView) searchView.findViewById(searchMagIconId);
if (null != textView) {
textView.setHint(stringId);
}
}
Function call:
setSearchViewEditTextHint(this, searchView, R.string.emptyString);
Hey Sorry I'm a little late to the party. I am having to do a similar thing. I need to change the icon. It's a bit of a hack but I think its the best possible solution. Looking in the support library code AOSP uses "Search_mag_icon" as the icon you are looking for. In your code you can do something like:
int searchMagIcon = getResources().getIdentifier("search_mag_icon", "id", "android");
ImageView SearchHintIcon = (ImageView) searchView.findViewById(searchMagIcon);
and that will save that ImageView. Then you can simply change it or set it to null in your case.
Edit There is also a mSearch.getSearchView().setIconifiedByDefault() as well as a mSearch.getSearchView().setIconified() that you can use. I find that you MUST set the bydefault one to see results.
Hope that helps. :-)
I am attempting to change the color of the blinking cursor on the SearchView widget in ICS+. I have tried the following:
Adding <item name="android:textCursorDrawable">#null</item> to my
theme
Adding a style for AutoCompleteTextViews to my theme and setting the textCursorAttribute of that style to #null
Setting android:textCursorDrawable="#null" directly on the SearchView
I read the answer here (Custom cursor color in SearchView), but there is not a non-ABS style for searchAutoCompleteTextView, so could not try this. I also looked for a Java method to set the text cursor drawable, but could not find one - I am modifying other aspects of the SearchView in Java and would be able to do so with the cursor if there were a method available.
I have customized the SearchView pretty extensively, but this one last change is keeping it from looking right - the cursor is white on a white background, so it is not easily visible. Any other ideas of things I can try?
Based on the comments and answers above I made an example of how this could look using reflection. This solves the problem in my app. Hope it saves someone else some time.
#Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.entity_list_actions, menu);
final SearchView searchView = (SearchView) menu.findItem(R.id.search).getActionView();
final int textViewID = searchView.getContext().getResources().getIdentifier("android:id/search_src_text",null, null);
final AutoCompleteTextView searchTextView = (AutoCompleteTextView) searchView.findViewById(textViewID);
try {
Field mCursorDrawableRes = TextView.class.getDeclaredField("mCursorDrawableRes");
mCursorDrawableRes.setAccessible(true);
mCursorDrawableRes.set(searchTextView, 0); //This sets the cursor resource ID to 0 or #null which will make it visible on white background
} catch (Exception e) {}
return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
}
That 0 could be any other resource ID like R.drawable.my_cursor
<style name="CustomTheme" parent="android:Theme.Holo.Light">
...
<item name="android:autoCompleteTextViewStyle">#style/SearchViewStyle</item>
...
</style>
<style name="SearchViewStyle" parent="#android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.AutoCompleteTextView">
<item name="android:textCursorDrawable">#drawable/action_mode_close</item>
</style>
As per earlier comment:
If you dig into the Android source code, you'll find that mCursorDrawableRes only gets set once in the 3-param constructor. Unfortunately that means there is no easy way to change it at runtime. Looks like your options may be limited to using reflection, or moving your custom SearchView into the android.widget package in order to access the package protected member.
This changes the text color and works also on Android 8:
#Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main_menu_search, menu);
MenuItem searchItem = menu.findItem(R.id.action_search);
SearchView searchView = (SearchView) MenuItemCompat.getActionView(searchItem);
SearchView.SearchAutoComplete theTextArea = (SearchView.SearchAutoComplete) searchView
.findViewById(R.id.search_src_text);
theTextArea.setTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.yourColor));
...
I'm having a bit of trouble customizing the search icon in the SearchView. On my point of view, the icon can be changed in the Item attributes, right? Just check the code bellow..
Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
This is the menu I'm using, with my custom search icon icn_lupa. But when I run the app, I always get the default search icon...
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:id="#+id/menu_search"
android:title="#string/menu_search"
android:icon="#drawable/icn_lupa"
android:showAsAction="always"
android:actionViewClass="android.widget.SearchView" />
</menu>
I've found another way to change the search icon which goes in the same line as Diego Pino's answer but straight in onPrepareOptionsMenu.
In your menu.xml (same as before)
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:id="#+id/action_search"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_action_fav"
android:title="#string/action_websearch"
android:showAsAction="always|never"
android:actionViewClass="android.widget.SearchView" />
</menu>
In your activity:
#Override
public boolean onPrepareOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
MenuItem searchViewMenuItem = menu.findItem(R.id.action_search);
mSearchView = (SearchView) searchViewMenuItem.getActionView();
int searchImgId = getResources().getIdentifier("android:id/search_button", null, null);
ImageView v = (ImageView) mSearchView.findViewById(searchImgId);
v.setImageResource(R.drawable.your_new_icon);
mSearchView.setOnQueryTextListener(this);
return super.onPrepareOptionsMenu(menu);
}
I followed the example for changing the edittext in this example.
You should be able to do this for all icons/backgrounds in your SearchView, to find the right ID you can check here.
UPDATE November 2017:
Since this answer android has been updated with the possibility of changing the search icon through the XML.
If you target anything below android v21 you can use:
<android.support.v7.widget.SearchView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
app:searchIcon="#drawable/ic_search_white_24dp"
app:closeIcon="#drawable/ic_clear_white_24dp" />
Or v21 and later:
<SearchView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:searchIcon="#drawable/ic_search_white_24dp"
android:closeIcon="#drawable/ic_clear_white_24dp" />
And there are even more options:
closeIcon
commitIcon
goIcon
searchHintIcon
searchIcon
voiceIcon
Nice answer from #just_user
For my case, since I am using the appcompat v7 library for the SearchView + ActionBar, i modified his solution a bit to make it compatible to my project, it should work so as long as you did not modify anything when you added appcompat v7 as library
XML:
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:metrodeal="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto" >
<item
android:id="#+id/main_menu_action_search"
android:orderInCategory="100"
android:title="#string/search"
metrodeal:showAsAction="always"
metrodeal:actionViewClass="android.support.v7.widget.SearchView"
android:icon="#drawable/search_btn"/>
</menu>
Java code:
#Override
public void onPrepareOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
MenuItem searchViewMenuItem = menu.findItem(R.id.main_menu_action_search);
SearchView mSearchView = (SearchView) MenuItemCompat.getActionView(searchViewMenuItem);
int searchImgId = android.support.v7.appcompat.R.id.search_button; // I used the explicit layout ID of searchview's ImageView
ImageView v = (ImageView) mSearchView.findViewById(searchImgId);
v.setImageResource(R.drawable.search_btn);
super.onPrepareOptionsMenu(menu);
}
Excuse for the very big icon (I have not resized the icon just yet), but it should work as it is.
I was struggling with this too but then I accidentaly used 'collapseActionView' and that fixed it!
My menu.xml looks like this now:
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:id="#+id/menu_search"
android:title="#string/menu_search"
android:showAsAction="always|withText|collapseActionView"
android:actionViewClass="android.widget.SearchView"
android:icon="#android:drawable/ic_menu_search" />
</menu>
The downside of this is that on tablets the SearchView will appear on the left side of the ActionBar instead of where the searchicon is, but I don't mind that.
I defined a style to do it .
here is my xml:
<android.support.v7.widget.SearchView
android:id="#+id/sv_search"
android:icon="#android:drawable/ic_menu_search"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
**style="#style/CitySearchView"**
android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
and this is my style:
<style name="CitySearchView" parent="Base.Widget.AppCompat.SearchView">
<item name="searchIcon">#drawable/ic_more_search</item>
</style>
That it！
After finish that，just take a look at Base.Widget.AppCompat.SearchView.
<style name="Base.Widget.AppCompat.SearchView" parent="android:Widget">
<item name="layout">#layout/abc_search_view</item>
<item name="queryBackground">#drawable/abc_textfield_search_material</item>
<item name="submitBackground">#drawable/abc_textfield_search_material</item>
<item name="closeIcon">#drawable/abc_ic_clear_mtrl_alpha</item>
<item name="searchIcon">#drawable/abc_ic_search_api_mtrl_alpha</item>
<item name="goIcon">#drawable/abc_ic_go_search_api_mtrl_alpha</item>
<item name="voiceIcon">#drawable/abc_ic_voice_search_api_mtrl_alpha</item>
<item name="commitIcon">#drawable/abc_ic_commit_search_api_mtrl_alpha</item>
<item name="suggestionRowLayout">#layout/abc_search_dropdown_item_icons_2line</item>
</style>
every item can be override by define a new style .
Hope it helps!
There's a way to do this. The trick is to recover the ImageView using its identifier and setting a new image with setImageResource(). This solution is inspired on Changing the background drawable of the searchview widget.
private SearchView searchbox;
private void customizeSearchbox() {
setSearchHintIcon(R.drawable.new_search_icon);
}
private void setSearchHintIcon(int resourceId) {
ImageView searchHintIcon = (ImageView) findViewById(searchbox,
"android:id/search_mag_icon");
searchHintIcon.setImageResource(resourceId);
}
private View findViewById(View v, String id) {
return v.findViewById(v.getContext().getResources().
getIdentifier(id, null, null));
}
SearchView searchView = (SearchView) findViewById(R.id.address_search);
try {
Field searchField = SearchView.class
.getDeclaredField("mSearchButton");
searchField.setAccessible(true);
ImageView searchBtn = (ImageView) searchField.get(searchView);
searchBtn.setImageResource(R.drawable.search_glass);
} catch (NoSuchFieldException e) {
} catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
}
After some research I found the solution here. The trick is that the icon is not in an ImageView but in the Spannable object.
// Accessing the SearchAutoComplete
int queryTextViewId = getResources().getIdentifier("android:id/search_src_text", null, null);
View autoComplete = searchView.findViewById(queryTextViewId);
Class<?> clazz = Class.forName("android.widget.SearchView$SearchAutoComplete");
SpannableStringBuilder stopHint = new SpannableStringBuilder(" ");
stopHint.append(getString(R.string.your_new_text));
// Add the icon as an spannable
Drawable searchIcon = getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.ic_action_search);
Method textSizeMethod = clazz.getMethod("getTextSize");
Float rawTextSize = (Float)textSizeMethod.invoke(autoComplete);
int textSize = (int) (rawTextSize * 1.25);
searchIcon.setBounds(0, 0, textSize, textSize);
stopHint.setSpan(new ImageSpan(searchIcon), 1, 2, Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
// Set the new hint text
Method setHintMethod = clazz.getMethod("setHint", CharSequence.class);
setHintMethod.invoke(autoComplete, stopHint);
In menu xml:
<item
android:id="#+id/menu_filter"
android:actionLayout="#layout/menu_filter"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_menu_filter"
android:orderInCategory="10"
android:showAsAction="always"
android:title="#string/menu_filter"/>
and create the layout/menu_filter:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<SearchView
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:searchIcon="#drawable/ic_menu_filter"/>
then in activity's onCreateOptionsMenu or onPrepareOptionsMenu:
SearchView searchView = (SearchView) menu.findItem(R.id.menu_filter).getActionView();
searchView.setOnQueryTextListener(this);
It looks like the actionViewClass overides the icon and it doesn't look like you can change it from this class.
You got two solutions:
Live with it and I think it's the best option in terms of user experience and platform conformity.
Define your own actionViewClass
<SearchView
android:searchIcon="#drawable/ic_action_search"
..../>
use the searchIcon xml tag
This works with Material Design (MaterialComponents theme) and BottomAppBar.
If you are using androidx library, for example:
<item
android:id="#+id/sv"
android:title="#string/search"
app:actionViewClass="androidx.appcompat.widget.SearchView"
app:showAsAction="always" />
You can create a method and invoke it from wherever you want:
/**
* Set SearchView Icon
* #param i Drawable icon
*/
private void setSVIcon(int i) {
ImageView iv = searchView.findViewById(androidx.appcompat.R.id.search_button);
iv.setImageDrawable(ResourcesCompat.getDrawable(getResources(), i, null));
}
Usage example:
#Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
getMenuInflater().inflate(m, menu);
MenuItem mn = menu.findItem(R.id.sv);
if (mn != null) {
searchview = (SearchView) mn.getActionView();
setSVIcon(R.drawable.ic_sr);
}
}
Update hint of AutocompleteTextView for updating search icon in the expanded mode, copied from android source,
#Override
public boolean onPrepareOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
mSearchMenuItem = menu.findItem(R.id.action_search);
SearchView searchView = (SearchView) mSearchMenuItem.getActionView();
int searchImgId = getResources().getIdentifier("android:id/search_button", null, null);
ImageView v = (ImageView) searchView.findViewById(searchImgId);
v.setImageResource(R.drawable.search_or);
int searchTextViewId = searchView.getContext().getResources().getIdentifier("android:id/search_src_text", null, null);
AutoCompleteTextView searchTextView = (AutoCompleteTextView) searchView.findViewById(searchTextViewId);
searchTextView.setHintTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.hint_color_white));
searchTextView.setTextColor(getResources().getColor(android.R.color.white));
searchTextView.setTextSize(18.0f);
SpannableStringBuilder ssb = new SpannableStringBuilder(" "); // for the icon
ssb.append(hintText);
Drawable searchIcon = getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.search_or);
int textSize = (int) (searchTextView.getTextSize() * 1.25);
searchIcon.setBounds(0, 0, textSize, textSize);
ssb.setSpan(new ImageSpan(searchIcon), 1, 2, Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
searchTextView.setHint(ssb);
return super.onPrepareOptionsMenu(menu);
}
From API 21 you can change it in xml:
android:searchIcon="#drawable/loupe"
android:closeIcon="#drawable/x_white"
for api level < 21, i did this:
int searchImgId = getResources().getIdentifier("android:id/search_mag_icon", null, null);
ImageView ivIcon = (ImageView) searchView.findViewById(searchImgId);
if(ivIcon!=null)
ivIcon.setImageResource(R.drawable.ic_search);
from this
to this
There are three magnifying glass icons. two of them are shown when IconizedByDefault is true(one which is shown before pressing and one is shown in the "hint") and one is shown all the time when IconizedByDefault is false. all the fields are private so the way to get them is by their xml id. (most of the code is mentioned separately in other answers in this post already)
when IconizedByDefault is true change the icon in the hint (which is seen only after pressing the icon) by :
mSearchSrcTextView = (SearchAutoComplete)findViewById(R.id.search_src_text);
then do the same as in the android source code:
final int textSize = (int) (mSearchSrcTextView.getTextSize() * 1.25);
newSearchIconDrawable.setBounds(0, 0, textSize, textSize);
final SpannableStringBuilder ssb = new SpannableStringBuilder(" ");
ssb.setSpan(new ImageSpan(newSearchIconDrawable), 1, 2, Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
ssb.append(hintText);
mSearchHintIcon was replaced with newSearchIconDrawable which is your new search icon.
Then set the hint with
mSearchSrcTextView.setHint(ssb);
The other 2 icons are in an ImageView, which can be found by their Id.
for the icon when searchview is closed (when iconizedByDefault is true) do:
mSearchButton = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.search_button);
and for the one that always appears (if iconizedByDefault is false)
mCollapsedIcon = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.search_mag_icon);
Desperate solution using Kotlin
val s = (searchView.getAllChildren().firstOrNull() as? LinearLayout)?.getAllChildren()?.filter { it is AppCompatImageView }?.firstOrNull() as? AppCompatImageView
s?.setImageResource(R.drawable.search)
getAllChildren:
fun ViewGroup.getAllChildren() : ArrayList<View> {
val views = ArrayList<View>()
for (i in 0..(childCount-1)) {
views.add(getChildAt(i))
}
return views
}
Hope it helps someone.
My solution:
Use two menu xml files. In one of the xmls the menu item has an actionView and in the other one no. Initially inflate the collapsed menu and when the menu item is clicked, invalidate the menu and inflate the expanded menu xml and make sure you call setIconified(false);
#Override
public void onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu, MenuInflater inflater)
{
if(!mShowSearchView)
{
inflater.inflate(R.menu.menu_collapsed, menu);
}
else
{
inflater.inflate(R.menu.menu_expanded, menu);
MenuItem searchItem = menu.findItem(R.id.action_search);
SearchView searchView = (SearchView) MenuItemCompat.getActionView(searchItem);
searchView.setIconified(false);
searchView.setOnCloseListener(new OnCloseListener()
{
#Override
public boolean onClose()
{
mShowSearchView = false;
ActivityCompat.invalidateOptionsMenu(getActivity());
return false;
}
});
}
super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu, inflater);
}
#Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item)
{
if (item.getItemId() == R.id.action_filter)
{
menu.showMenu();
}
else if (item.getItemId() == R.id.action_search)
{
mShowSearchView = true;
ActivityCompat.invalidateOptionsMenu(getActivity());
}
return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}
Just name your icon the same name as the icon that is used by the search view. When it compiles it takes the resource in the project over the icon in the library.
I use the AppCompat library. Yes, specifying android:icon="#drawable/search_icon_png" doesnt work.
So i looked into the source code of #style/Theme.AppCompat and found the icon that android uses.
<item name="searchViewSearchIcon">#drawable/abc_ic_search</item>
So if you rename your search icon inside your drawables to abc_ic_search.png, this icon is rendered as its found in your app drawable first, rather than the appcompat drawable folder.
Works for me :)
Using this approach you can customize the close and clear icons for the search widget as well.