SearchView.OnCloseListener does not get invoked

Question

Im using an action bar and adding a searchView to it. I have implemented the searchView.onCLoseListener but this does not seem to be getting invoked. Any suggestions ?

Answer 1

Create the menu item with the app:showAsAction set to always.

When creating the SearchView in the onCreateOptionsMenu method do something like this

inflater.inflate(R.menu.menu_search, menu);
final MenuItem item = menu.findItem(R.id.action_search);
final SearchView search = (SearchView) item.getActionView();
search.setQueryHint(getString(R.string.search_brand_item));
search.setOnQueryTextListener(new SearchView.OnQueryTextListener() {
  @Override
  public boolean onQueryTextSubmit(String query) {
    // add your code
    return false;
  }

  @Override
  public boolean onQueryTextChange(String newText) {
    // add your code 
    return false;
  }
});
search.setOnCloseListener(new SearchView.OnCloseListener() {
  @Override
  public boolean onClose() {
    // add your code here
    return false;
  }
});
search.setIconifiedByDefault(true); // make sure to set this to true

The search.setIconifiedByDefault(true) needs to be set to true to call the onClose() method on the SearchView.OnCloseListener() created above.