Expand Search View to use entire Action Bar (hide other things)

Question

I have a SearchView inside my ActionBar, and I want to use the entire ActionBar when the search icon is pressed, but I can only use th

Answer 1

I tried this line of code to make the searchview expand the full width available. This works when there are other items shown in the actionbar either.

searchView.setMaxWidth(android.R.attr.width);