SearchView.OnCloseListener does not get invoked

Question

Im using an action bar and adding a searchView to it. I have implemented the searchView.onCLoseListener but this does not seem to be getting invoked. Any suggestions ?

Answer 1

If you have set the

searchView.setIconifiedByDefault(false)

then, your searchView never closes as it is always in expanded mode. This is the reason why your onClose() is not being invoked.

Answer 2

I'm also find this problem. the solution is very simple! Just store your SearchView view in private var. Then use

• isShown method to check if view was expanded,
• searchview.addOnLayoutChange to determine searchview start using isShown after if block do your actions,
• override onBackPressed with if block(searchView !=null && searchView.isShown() then do your actions when user click back button,
• and override home(back) button listener in onOptionsItemSelected with isShown block. Note: in menu item xml file remove app:showAsAction collapseActionView flag.

Answer 3

Ok. i got the mistake. We cant add a searchCommand and do

setShowAsAction(MenuItem.SHOW_AS_ACTION_COLLAPSE_ACTION_VIEW)

Doing this would remove the searchText if any and hence we cant do a onClose().

Answer 4

What I did to sort out a similar problem is I created a new class that extended SearchView:

public class EnglishVerbSearchView extends SearchView {

OnSearchViewCollapsedEventListener mSearchViewCollapsedEventListener;

public EnglishVerbSearchView(Context context) {
    super(context);
}

@Override
public void onActionViewCollapsed() {
    if (mSearchViewCollapsedEventListener != null)
        mSearchViewCollapsedEventListener.onSearchViewCollapsed();
    super.onActionViewCollapsed();
}

public interface OnSearchViewCollapsedEventListener{
    public void onSearchViewCollapsed();
}

public void setOnSearchViewCollapsedEventListener(OnSearchViewCollapsedEventListener eventListener) {
    mSearchViewCollapsedEventListener = eventListener;
}

}

You can then use this class instead of SearchView in your menu xml file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
      xmlns:yourapp="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto" >
    <item android:id="@+id/action_search"
      android:title="@string/action_search"
      android:icon="@drawable/action_search"
      yourapp:showAsAction="ifRoom|collapseActionView"
      yourapp:actionViewClass="com.szymontrapp.englishverbs.EnglishVerbSearchView" />
</menu>

And then you can add a listener in your activity:

    getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.dictionary, menu);
    MenuItem searchItem = menu.findItem(R.id.action_search);
    EnglishVerbSearchView searchView = (EnglishVerbSearchView)      MenuItemCompat.getActionView(searchItem);       

    // Get the SearchView and set the searchable configuration
    SearchManager searchManager = (SearchManager) getSystemService(Context.SEARCH_SERVICE);
    // Assumes current activity is the searchable activity
    searchView.setSearchableInfo(searchManager.getSearchableInfo(getComponentName()));
    searchView.setIconifiedByDefault(false); // Do not iconify the widget; expand it by default

    searchView.setOnSearchViewCollapsedEventListener(listener);

You can also override other methods in your class that replaces SearchView to achieve other goals.

Answer 5

I ran into same problem on android 4.1.1. Looks like it is a known bug: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=25758

Anyway, as a workaround i used state change listener (when SearchView is detached from action bar, it is also closed obviously).

view.addOnAttachStateChangeListener(new OnAttachStateChangeListener() {

    @Override
    public void onViewDetachedFromWindow(View arg0) {
        // search was detached/closed
    }

    @Override
    public void onViewAttachedToWindow(View arg0) {
        // search was opened
    }
});

Above code worked well in my case.

Answer 6

    MenuItemCompat.OnActionExpandListener expandListener = new MenuItemCompat.OnActionExpandListener() {
        @Override
        public boolean onMenuItemActionCollapse(MenuItem item) {
            // Do something when action item collapses
            /*Hiding the mic on search visibility*/
                myMenu.findItem(R.id.action_speak).setVisible(false);
            Log.v("test","colllapse");
            return true;  // Return true to collapse action view
        }

        @Override
        public boolean onMenuItemActionExpand(MenuItem item) {
            // Do something when expanded
            Log.v("test","expand");
            return true;  // Return true to expand action view
        }
    };

    //Searchview Initilisation
    MenuItem searchViewItem = menu.findItem(R.id.action_search);
    // Assign the listener to that action item
    MenuItemCompat.setOnActionExpandListener(searchViewItem, expandListener);

More info from here: https://developer.android.com/training/appbar/action-views.html