SearchView edittext is always null

Question

I always get that textView is null when doing this:

public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {

        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);

          


        

Answer 1

I'm using action bar of appcompat v7 and my solusion is:

TextView searchText = (TextView) searchView.findViewById(android.support.v7.appcompat.R.id.search_src_text);

Hope this help.