Set SearchView clear button color

Question

I am creating a searchview in the toolbar using onCreateOptionsMenu, but can\'t get the clear X button to initially be white. It becomes white when

Answer 1

You can use your own custom icon in place of searchview default cancel icon.

I have used below code which works well, Hope that will work for you.

private void setCloseSearchIcon(SearchView searchView) {
        try {
            Field searchField = SearchView.class.getDeclaredField("mCloseButton");
            searchField.setAccessible(true);
            ImageView closeBtn = (ImageView) searchField.get(searchView);
            closeBtn.setImageResource(R.drawable.ic_close);

        } catch (NoSuchFieldException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

This will work above api level 14.

Kotlin

private fun configureCloseButton(searchView: SearchView) {
    val searchClose =  searchView.javaClass.getDeclaredField("mCloseButton")
    searchClose.isAccessible = true
    val closeImage = searchClose.get(searchView) as ImageView
    closeImage.setImageResource(R.drawable.arrow_back_gray) // your image here
}