Auto Collapse ActionBar SearchView on Soft Keyboard close

Question

I am currently using an ActionBar menu item to display a SearchView in the action bar. When the search menu item is expanded the soft keyboard is displayed which is what I

Answer 1

Just Override onBackPressed like this:

@Override
    public void onBackPressed() {
        if (searchView.isShown()){
            searchView.onActionViewCollapsed();  //collapse your ActionView
            searchView.setQuery("",false);       //clears your query without submit
            isClosed = true;                     //needed to handle closed by back
        } else{
            super.onBackPressed();
        }
    }

and your onCreateOptionsMenu would inflate the mSearchView like this:

@Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu_search, menu);
        mSearchView = (SearchView) menu.findItem(R.id.menu_action_search).getActionView();
        mSearchView.setOnQueryTextListener(this);
        mSearchView.setOnSearchClickListener(this);
        mSearchView.setOnCloseListener(this);
        isClosed = true;
        return true;
    }

have you class implement the following like this:

public class myActivity extends FragmentActivity implements
    SearchView.OnQueryTextListener, View.OnClickListener, SearchView.OnCloseListener {

which you will also need:

@Override
public void onClick(View view) {
    isClosed = false;
}

@Override
public boolean onClose() {
    isClosed = true;
    return false;
}

You will need to make "mSearchView" and "isClosed" both global variables to the activity.