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

First you should get the bottom line simply like this:

searchPlate = (View) findViewById(R.id.search_plate);

Then you should set background color to transparent like this:

searchPlate.setBackgroundColor(Color.TRANSPARENT);

This works perfectly for androidx.appcompat.widget.SearchView!