how to get the events of searchview in android

Question

I\'m using a search view in my application. Now i just want to get the text typed in the SearchView text box and display it on another textview. If i typed the text and clic

Answer 1

The right way to solve this is to use setOnQueryTextListener

This is a small exmple using Kotlin:

txtSearch = rootView.searchView 
txtSearch.setOnQueryTextListener(object : SearchView.OnQueryTextListener {

        override fun onQueryTextChange(newText: String): Boolean {
            return false
        }

        override fun onQueryTextSubmit(query: String): Boolean {
            return false
        }
 })