How do I open the SearchView programmatically?

Question

There is this widget for the ActionBar which called \'SearchView\'. When it\'s not in use, it looks like this:

Answer 1

Try to call expandActionView() on MenuItem, not onActionViewExpanded() on ActionView.

It works for me.

MenuItem searchMenuItem = menu.findItem(R.id.menu_search);
searchView = (SearchView) searchMenuItem.getActionView();
searchMenuItem.expandActionView();