SearchView's OnCloseListener doesn't work

Question

I\'m trying to add support for the SearchView in the Android 3.0+ ActionBar, but I can\'t get the OnCloseListener to work.

Here\'s my code:

Answer 1

There are two common patterns for SearchView.setOnCloseListener(). This is really true of all listeners, but I'm addressing your question specifically. The first way is to create a listener function and attach it to a member variable, and the second is to make the class implement the interface and have the handler be a member function.

Creating a listener object looks like this:

private SearchView mSearchView;
private final SearchView.OnCloseListener mOnCloseListener = 
    new SearchView.OnCloseListener() {
        public boolean onClose() {
            doStuff();
            return myBooleanResult;
        }
    };
mSearchView.setOnCloseListener(mOnCloseListener);

Implementing listener at class level looks like this:

public class MyClass implements OnCloseListener {
    private SearchView mSearchView;

    public MyClass(...) {
        mSearchView.setOnCloseListener(this);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onClose() {
        doStuff();
        return false;
    }
}

I have not seen any examples that create the OnCloseListener ad-hoc, as you did in your question.