Styling a SearchView in Android Action Bar

Question

I have a search widget in my Action Bar like this:

(1) How do I change

Answer 1

@Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {

        super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);

        // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);

        // Associate search configuration with the SearchView
        SearchManager searchManager =
               (SearchManager) getSystemService(Context.SEARCH_SERVICE);
        SearchView searchView =
                (SearchView) menu.findItem(R.id.search).getActionView();
        searchView.setQueryHint("Client/DOB/PPSN");
        searchView.setSearchableInfo(
                searchManager.getSearchableInfo(getComponentName()));

        // Setting the textview default behaviour properties
        int id = searchView.getContext().getResources().getIdentifier("android:id/search_src_text", null, null);
        TextView textView = (TextView) searchView.findViewById(id);
        textView.setTextColor(Color.WHITE);
        textView.setHintTextColor(Color.WHITE);

        // Set the search plate color to white
        int linlayId = getResources().getIdentifier("android:id/search_plate", null, null);
        View view = searchView.findViewById(linlayId);
        Drawable drawColor = getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.searchcolor);
        view.setBackground( drawColor );
        return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);

    }

Now this is the xml file searchcolor.xml for changing the plate color of search bar

and menu/menu.xml for creating the search in action bar