Android how to focus ActionBar searchView

Question

Hello i need to put some text inside the searchView and focus/expand the searchView widget.

this is what i tried but it doesn\'t work

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Answer 1

For me the following works:

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    ...
    MenuItem miSearch = menu.findItem(R.id.menu_search);
    SearchView mSearchView = (SearchView) miSearch.getActionView();

    mSearchView.setOnSearchClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            mSearchView.setFocusable(true);
            mSearchView.requestFocusFromTouch();
        }
    });

I use android.support.v7.widget.SearchView. When tried to set mSearchView.setIconified(false); it entered into an infinite loop.