How to completely collapse a SearchView after an item selected?

Question

I've been struggling with this for weeks.. I have a global search that offers up a custom listview with suggestions as a user types. When a user selects an option, I want the searchview to return to its completely collapsed state.

Instead, it shrinks down but stays in a slightly expanded view.

I've thrown EVERYTHING I can find at this thing to close it, but cannot for the life of me get the right method. Here's the function:

    final SearchView.OnCloseListener closeListener = new SearchView.OnCloseListener() {

        @Override
        public boolean onClose() {
            return closeSearch();
        }
    };

    protected boolean closeSearch() {
    _searchView.clearFocus();
    _searchView.setQuery("", false);
    _searchView.setFocusable(false);
    _searchMenuItem.collapseActionView();
    isSearchFragmentVisible(false);
    return false;
}

Close search is then manually called when an item is selected from the custom "suggestion" listview.

Answer 1

Instead of calling _searchView.onActionViewCollapsed() call menuItem.collapseActionView() where _searchView = menuItem.getActionView().

Answer 2

Found it. The call should be _searchView.onActionViewCollapsed(). Why on earth you call a "listener" style method (ie, one that begins with 'on') is beyond me.

Answer 3

@sebastian that's not actually right.

I've been stucked at this issue for a while, but finally I've managed to handle it in the right way. You're suppose to call menuSearch.collapseActionView(); instead. This method will call onActionViewCollapsed, which you could override. So you don't call a listener ;)

MenuItem menuSearch = menu.findItem(R.id.itemSearch);
SearchView searchView = (SearchView) menuSearch.getActionView();
//Don't use next line
//searchView.onActionViewCollapsed();
menuSearch.collapseActionView();

Answer 4

If you're using Toolbar (android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar) and the corresponding SearchView (android.support.v7.widget.SearchView) with it, this works:

    searchView.setQuery("", false);
    searchView.clearFocus();
    searchView.setIconified(true);

Answer 5

You should clear the search, remove the focus and then call:

searchView.setIconified(true);

Answer 6

This worked for me and it also closed the keyboard by Default

MenuItemCompat.collapseActionView(menuItem);

Answer 7

Returning false should have been sufficient based on the latest documentation and the source code iff iconifiedByDefault == true.

Did you by any chance define iconifiedByDefault="false" or called setIconifiedByDefault(false)?

Answer 8

searchView.setIconified(true); // Call this twice
searchView.setIconified(true);

It works for me.

Answer 9

I've changed the 'Go' button to 'Next', so the only method that worked for me (on API 19) is typing closeBtn.performClick(); closeBtn.performClick(); (Clicking 'close' button twice) in the OnEditorActionListener of the AutoCompleteTextView. You can get the AutoCompleteTextView like this:

LinearLayout linearLayout1 = (LinearLayout) searchView.getChildAt(0);
LinearLayout linearLayout2 = (LinearLayout) linearLayout1.getChildAt(2);
LinearLayout linearLayout3 = (LinearLayout) linearLayout2.getChildAt(1);
AutoCompleteTextView autoComplete = (AutoCompleteTextView) linearLayout3.getChildAt(0);

Answer 10

This worked for me searchMenuItem.collapseActionView();