Android expanded SearchView makes other ActionBar items disappear

Question

I\'m facing some problems with a SearchView in a Contextual Action Bar called by a Fragment. The major one is that when my SearchView is expanded, it makes disappear all oth

Answer 1

I'm completing this answer thanks to link posted by Bronx in his last post and other answer like this Android - cannot find TextView inside SearchWidget when using Android Support library (accepted answer): to move magnify icon inside text view, I remove this line from first Bronx answer

searchView.setIconifiedByDefault(false);

Then I've pasted this just abfter Bronx's code:

    AutoCompleteTextView autoComplete = (AutoCompleteTextView)mSearchView.findViewById(R.id.search_src_text);
    Class<?> clazz = null;
    try {
        clazz = Class.forName("android.widget.SearchView$SearchAutoComplete");
        SpannableStringBuilder stopHint = new SpannableStringBuilder("  ");
        stopHint.append(getString(R.string.action_search));
        // Add the icon as an spannable
        Drawable searchIcon = getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.abc_ic_search_api_mtrl_alpha);
        Method textSizeMethod = clazz.getMethod("getTextSize");
        Float rawTextSize = (Float)textSizeMethod.invoke(autoComplete);
        int textSize = (int) (rawTextSize * 1.25);
        searchIcon.setBounds(0, 0, textSize, textSize);
        stopHint.setSpan(new ImageSpan(searchIcon), 1, 2, Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
        // Set the new hint text
        Method setHintMethod = clazz.getMethod("setHint", CharSequence.class);
        setHintMethod.invoke(autoComplete, stopHint);
    } catch (Exception e) {
        // Set default hint
        mSearchView.setQueryHint(getResources().getString(R.string.action_search));
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

Just pay attention that R.string.action_search refers to a custom string in my project, so change it with yours. Thanks again to Bronx.

Answer 2

first thing the searchview widget has a maximum fixed size, so empty space are inevitabile.

If you want that your "action_settings" item doesn't disappear when the searchview collapse you need to set app:showAsAction="always"

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<item android:id="@+id/menu_series_cab_search"
    android:icon="@drawable/ic_search"
    android:title="@string/action_search"
    app:actionViewClass="android.support.v7.widget.SearchView"
    app:showAsAction="ifRoom|collapseActionView"/>
<item android:id="@+id/action_settings"
    android:title="@string/action_settings"
    android:icon="@drawable/abc_ic_menu_moreoverflow_mtrl_alpha"
    app:showAsAction="always" />

And your Java code should be like this:

@Override
public void onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu, MenuInflater inflater) {

    inflater.inflate(R.menu.main, menu);


    MenuItem searchItem = menu.findItem(R.id.action_search);
    // Get the SearchView and set the searchable configuration
    searchManager = (SearchManager) getActivity().getSystemService(Context.SEARCH_SERVICE);
    searchView = (SearchView) MenuItemCompat.getActionView(searchItem);//MenuItemCompat.getActionView(searchItem);//menu.findItem(R.id.action_search).getActionView();
    // Assumes current activity is the searchable activity
    searchView.setSearchableInfo(searchManager.getSearchableInfo(getActivity().getComponentName()));
    searchView.setIconifiedByDefault(false); // Do not iconify the widget; expand it by default

    super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu, inflater);
}