How to remove white underline in a SearchView widget in Toolbar Android

Question

I am using Toolbar search widget in my project. Everything works fine but expect the thing which I am completely stuck up with removing the underline below search field in m

Answer 1

For AndroidX I used this based on other answers here,

mSearchView.findViewById(androidx.appcompat.R.id.search_plate)
        .setBackgroundColor(Color.TRANSPARENT);