android.widget.SearchView cannot be cast to android.support.v7.widget.SearchView

Question

I\'m not unsure of why I\'m getting this error. Here\'s the menu in question:

Answer 1

According to the documentation, In the onCreateOptionsMenu use

MenuItem menuItem = menu.findItem(R.id.action_search);
        SearchView searchView = (SearchView) menuItem.getActionView();

ie:use the menu item directly to call getActionView() method

instead of

MenuItem menuItem = menu.findItem(R.id.action_search);
        SearchView searchView = MenuItemCompat.getActionView(menuItem);

or

searchView = (SearchView) menu.findItem(R.id.action_search);

becouse both are deprecated