How to delete or change the searchview icon inside the SearchView actionBar?

Question

How to remove or change the search view icon inside the edittext? I am using the Appcompat libra

Answer 1

I used the menu item with the property app:actionViewClass="android.support.v7.widget.SearchView"

On the activity I set:

searchView = (SearchView) searchMenuItem.getActionView();
searchView.setIconifiedByDefault(false);

To remove the icon I did:

ImageView searchIcon = (ImageView)searchView.findViewById(android.support.v7.appcompat.R.id.search_mag_icon);
searchIcon.setImageDrawable(null);