Android - Make whole search bar clickable

Question

I am using a search-view element in my fragment to implement search feature.

Answer 1

Write the lines of code given below in your Java file:

SearchView searchView = (SearchView) findViewById(R.id.searchView);
searchView.setQueryHint("Enter your address");
searchView.setIconified(false);
searchView.clearFocus();

After that, don't forget to write android:focusable="true" in your XML file inside SearchView tag.

For example: