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

I would like to share my experience but before that I want to dropped this comment. So far, I really find this CoordinatorLayout shenanigans buggy and not worthy of being dropped in the SDK. Its just buggy. When it behaves like this erratically, the architecture on the xml layout is not much of a help to figure out whats going on. I followed the examples religiously and none of them worked.

Having said that, I am using the build tools version v24.0.2 (The latest as of this writing) and my situation may be of different than the rest. So I am putting this answer along with other answers here.

In my case, I am using this library for NavigationDrawer

As some answers here pointed out, its the navigation drawer. I tried not using that library and still having the problem. I have CoordinatorLayout as the parent layout of my two activities and programatically inserts the NavigationDrawer as instructed by the library author. The expanding Toolbar the size of the screen when focusing on an EditText is still there. Therefore, in my case, the problem is not coming from there.

Here's what I did in my case:

I removedfitsSystemWindows from the CoordinatorLayout layout of the activity. Contrary to what other people suggested here.

I am pasting my entire activity layout here:

I did this on another activity and it works as expected. I don't have the expanding Toolbar anymore. But this problem occurred. I am about to pull my hair out. The status bar became white. Phoenix Wang solution on that post fix it for me and I quote his answer:

I found the answer in this link:Status Bar Color not changing with Relative Layout as root element

So it turns out we need remove the

  @android:color/transparent in

styles.xml(v21). And it works just fine for me.

My only concern is how will this solution holds in the upcoming updates. CoordinatorLayout should not be behaving like that.