Android appcompat toolbar stretches when searchview gets focus

Question

I\'m updating an app to use the new Toolbar instead of the regular ActionBar. In my app the user must be able to select a contact from their contac

Answer 1

The accepted answer works fine, however I needed an alternative that would allow to view the Toolbar under translucent status bar.

The problem is that Toolbar uses paddings to cover for system components. As a result, the paddingBottom of the Toolbar is being set to soft keyboard's height whenever the keyboard appears. Solution was to reset the padding before calling super.onMeasure in my custom Toolbar class:

public class MyToolbar extends Toolbar {

   (...)

   @Override
   protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec) {
       setPadding(getPaddingLeft(), getPaddingTop(), getPaddingRight(), 0);
       super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec);
    }
}