How to set SearchView TextSize?

Question

I have a SearchView inside a LinearLayout and I\'m trying to set a different TextSize for it (the SearchView) but when se

Answer 1

Though AutoCompleteTextView is superclass of SearchAutoComplete, SearchView use SearchAutoComplete rather than AutoCompleteTextView. use it and do more.

SearchView searchView=...;
SearchView.SearchAutoComplete autoComplete= searchView.findViewById(android.support.v7.appcompat.R.id.search_src_text);
float textSpSize=10.f;
if (autoComplete!=null){
    autoComplete.setTextSize(textSpSize);
   }

Answer 2

Check this answer Can we limit the number of character in edittext of SearchView in Android?. It uses SearchView.OnQueryTextListener in order to check if exceeded the limit.

Answer 3

You can achieve this using a theme:

in styles.xml

<style name="AppSearchView" parent="Widget.AppCompat.SearchView" >
        <item name="android:textSize">60sp</item>
    </style>

And using a SearchView

<android.support.v7.widget.SearchView
            android:id="@+id/searchView"
            android:layout_width="350dp"
            app:theme="@style/AppSearchView"
            android:layout_height="80dp"
            android:layout_marginTop="15dp"/>

Answer 4

I hope my solution will help(AndroidX).

styles.xml

 <style name="SearchViewStyle" parent="Widget.AppCompat.Light.SearchView">
    <item name="android:textSize">20sp</item>
 </style>

your_layout_name.xml

<androidx.appcompat.widget.SearchView
      app:defaultQueryHint="Search"
      android:theme="@style/SearchViewStyle" // Not style!!
      .
      .
      .
         />

Answer 5

When using ActionBarSherlock you have to do this:

    AutoCompleteTextView searchTextView = (AutoCompleteTextView) searchView.findViewById(R.id.abs__search_src_text);
    searchTextView.setTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.search_text_color));

Answer 6

You could do these using code

SearchView searchView = new SearchView(context);
LinearLayout linearLayout1 = (LinearLayout) searchView.getChildAt(0);
LinearLayout linearLayout2 = (LinearLayout) linearLayout1.getChildAt(2);
LinearLayout linearLayout3 = (LinearLayout) linearLayout2.getChildAt(1);
AutoCompleteTextView autoComplete = (AutoCompleteTextView) linearLayout3.getChildAt(0);
autoComplete.setTextSize(60);

Here is another solution

SearchView searchView = new SearchView(context);
AutoCompleteTextView search_text = (AutoCompleteTextView) searchView.findViewById(searchView.getContext().getResources().getIdentifier("android:id/search_src_text", null, null));
search_text.setTextColor(Color.WHITE);
search_text.setTextSize(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_PX, getResources().getDimensionPixelSize(R.dimen.text_small));