getActionView() of my MenuItem return null

Question

I just would like to tweak the View of an ActionBar MenuItem by code.

Unfortunately, it seems that getActionView always return null!

My code:

Answer 1

If your debug build is working without any issues and issue is only with release build then this may be because of proguard configuration. If you have enabled proguard in your application then add below line to proguard-rules.pro

-keep class android.support.v7.widget.SearchView { *; }