SearchView imeOptions and onQueryTextSubmit support

Question

I\'m currently using ActionBarSherlock 4.2 and it\'s SearchView widget in my app.

I wanted to make it submit query even though it\'s empty. I tried to set imeOptions and

Answer 1

I had the same problem, the problem lies onSubmitQuery() in SearchView.java

private void onSubmitQuery() {
    CharSequence query = mQueryTextView.getText();
    if (query != null && TextUtils.getTrimmedLength(query) > 0) {

Empty query's are not supported so I had to download and use ActionBarSherlock and then modify this method.

This is how my onSubmitQuery() looks like now

private void onSubmitQuery() {
     CharSequence query = mQueryTextView.getText();
     if (query == null) {query = "";}
     if (mOnQueryChangeListener == null
             || !mOnQueryChangeListener.onQueryTextSubmit(query.toString())) {
         if (mSearchable != null) {
             launchQuerySearch(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_UNKNOWN, null, query.toString());
             setImeVisibility(false);
         }
         dismissSuggestions();
     }
 }

Hope this helps.