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I am trying to implement the SearchView ActionBar item as android developers says but I am having some trouble. ( http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/actionbar.html ). There are two mistakes that although I have looked for a lot, I have not been able to find the solution. 1) I have a problem with the class MenuItemCompat. It says: The method getActionView(MenuItem) is undefined for the type MenuItemCompat I can only use for this class the following methods: setShowAsAction(item, actionEnum) setActionView(item, view) Here it is the code @Override public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu

I'm trying to style the SearchView widget using the new AppCompat v21, but I'm facing some problems. No matter what layout I set on "suggestionRowLayout" attribute, it does nothing at all. The suggestion dropdown list of the SearchView remains the same way. Other problem that I'm having is when the "accent color" is the same color as the "primary color", in the searchview is impossible to distinguish where is the caret. Do you know how can I change the accent color in the SearchView to only be applied there? I've found that Play Music has the same problem. I'm following the guide from Android

When using the action bar search interface, the widget expands to occupy the full width of the screen in portrait mode, but stops short in landscape mode. Is there a way to set the expansion layout params on the SearchView to fully fill the action bar when the user is typing a search? See image: Note: I'm not currently using ActionBar Sherlock Edit: Here's what I did to get it to extend the full width. searchView.setOnSearchClickListener(new OnClickListener() { private boolean extended = false; @Override public void onClick(View v) { if (!extended) { extended = true; LayoutParams lp = v

I'm trying to add a SearchView in my toolbar, I've added the icon, but when I press it, it's not expanding. Here's the code: main_menu.xml <menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto" xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools" tools:context="com.app.try.MainActivity"> <item android:id="@+id/search" android:title="@string/search" android:icon="@drawable/abc_ic_search_api_mtrl_alpha" app:showAsAction="always" android:actionViewClass="android.support.v7.widget.SearchView"/> </menu> MainActivity.java @Override public

Background My app has the ability to search for items (which are other apps) using the SearchView on the ActionBar. The app uses the support library of Google, and it works well on all versions of Android from API 9 . The problem On Lollipop, when I click the search action item in order to start searching, I notice that the up/back button on the top-left corner gets to be white, which is bad for this case since the actionbar background is also quite white: Weird thing is that it doesn't always occur, and I don't think it occurs on Android versions that aren't Lollipop (tested on multiple