SearchView taking all the space in the new ActionBarCompat

Question

I switched from ActionBarSherlock to ActionBarCompat (support library v7). After some adjustments, almost everything is working fine by now.

But I\'m in trouble with

Answer 1

This is definitely a bug about Android but a workaround can be including SearchView programmatically like this:

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    SearchView searchView = new SearchView(getSupportActionBar().getThemedContext());
    searchView.setIconifiedByDefault(false);
    getActionBar().setCustomView(searchView);
    getActionBar().setDisplayShowCustomEnabled(true);
}

You can also use a layout XML to define SearchView properties. However "iconifiedByDefault" in XML tends to be ineffective in my experience. (This may my bad though)

Thanks for creating an issue about this. Here's the URL to the related bug report: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=58251

Despite what is mentioned in the bug report, my experience was the same with both ActionBarSherlock and ActionBarCompat. So I expect that ActionBarSherlock users are also affected.