searchview

I am doing an application where for example when i click on the image(it is a searchView) the search pad opens ! and it looks like but here the default search icon (magnifier) gets displayed but this dissappears as soon as some text is entered but i dont want that magnifier to be displayed even the image is clicked for the first time and here i am not using any xml file my code is public class MainActivity extends Activity { @SuppressLint("NewApi") @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); RelativeLayout relative = new RelativeLayout

I have a search widget in my Action Bar like this: (1) How do I change the color of the text that says "iPhone"? (2) Also, if you notice the gray X -- the entire Search Widget is that color as well when it is in an icon position. I am on Holo.Theme.Light and utilizing my own mods to it. How do I change these two styles for the widget in my styles.xml file (assuming that is where you make the changes for a search widget)? You would have to set searchView.setBackgroundColor(Color.WHITE); SearchViews are not so customizable. Adidas I have been spending many time for this but finally: :-) 1) To

I'm trying to add a Search-ActionView to my application (as explained here http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/search/search-dialog.html#UsingSearchWidget ). Unfortunately I keep getting a NullPointerException and I'm having a hard time detecting what's actually going wrong. I created a searchable config and a searchable activity as shown on the android page. My menu .xml file looks like this: <menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" > ... <item android:id="@+id/menu_item_search" android:actionViewClass="android.widget.SearchView" android:icon="@drawable/icon

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

I have a working SearchView which expands in my OptionsMenu when the user taps on the search icon. However it only expands within the available space among the other OptionsMenu icons. On a wide screen this is fine, but with a narrow space there is only room to show 5-10 charaters in the search box. I want it to overlay the other icons such as it does for the Android Contacts app. Currently, I'm building with targetSdkVersion = 17. Hopefully I'm missing something simple :) (Note added later: the only solution I've found workable so far is to hide all the menu icons when I want to expand the