Implementing SearchView as per the material design guidelines

Question

I have been looking for ways to implement a searchview in the activity toolbar (actionbar) as per the material design guidelines.

On clicking on the search icon, the

Answer 1

Taking a hint from @Zielony's answer I did the following:

1) Instead if using an ActionBar or ToolBar I built my own layout (basically a RelativeLayout with burger menu, search and other menu buttons and a EditText for search)

2) Used a theme without an ActionBar, placed my custom layout at the top of the activity so that it appeared like an ActionBar.

3) In the search button's OnClickListener I do 2 things:

• Hide the menu buttons and show the 'search' EditText.
• Add a fragment to display search suggestions and search
• Show the soft keyboard input

3) Added OnClickListeners for the other menu buttons.

4) Added a TextWatcher on the 'search' EditText to display search hints and results from the server.

This is how it appears now: