How do I close a SearchView programmatically?

Question

I currently have a SearchView in the action bar of my app. When I click the search icon, the SearchView expands and the keyboard pops up as expecte

Answer 1

I prefer !searchView.isIconified() over if(isSearchViewVisible) inside the onBackPressed() method as option 2 does not work when you have fragments added in your fragmentmanager's backstack that you would like to show when the back button is pressed.

Answer 2

My way:

1. Create CustomSearchView class

    public class CustomSearchView extends SearchView{
        public CustomSearchView(final Context context) {
            super(context);
            this.setIconifiedByDefault(true);
        }

        @Override
        public boolean dispatchKeyEventPreIme(KeyEvent event) {
            if (event.getKeyCode() == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK && 
                event.getAction() == KeyEvent.ACTION_UP) {
                this.onActionViewCollapsed();
            }
            return super.dispatchKeyEventPreIme(event);
        }
    }

2. Add actionViewClass

    <item
        android:id="@+id/menu_search"
        android:title="@string/menu_search"
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_search"
        android:showAsAction="collapseActionView|ifRoom"
        android:actionViewClass="com.myapp.CustomSearchView"/>

3. Create CustomSearchView into onCreateOptionsMenu

    CustomSearchView searchView = (CustomSearchView)menu.findItem(R.id.menu_search).getActionView();

Answer 3

Use

searchView.setIconified(true)

I also used MenuItemCompat.collapseActionView

MenuItemCompat.collapseActionView(menuItem)

Answer 4

If you are not use any function in onBackPressed() method ,remove it from your Activity.So that the SearchView itself handle the onBackPress event.

I am using SearchView as

@Override
public void onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu, MenuInflater inflater) {
    MenuItem searchItem = menu.findItem(R.id.action_search);
    SearchView searchview = (SearchView) MenuItemCompat.getActionView(searchItem);
    searchview.setIconifiedByDefault(true);
    searchview.setOnQueryTextListener(this);
    searchview.setSubmitButtonEnabled(true);  
    searchview.setQueryHint("Search Here"); 
    super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu, inflater);
}

and my menu.xml as follows

<item
    android:id="@+id/action_search"
    android:icon="@drawable/search_tool"
    android:orderInCategory="1"
    android:title="Search" 
    app:actionViewClass="android.support.v7.widget.SearchView"
    app:showAsAction="always|collapseActionView"/>

Answer 5

Use:

searchView.setIconified(true);

Answer 6

There is a simple way to do this:

@Override
public void onBackPressed() {
    if (!searchView.isIconified()) {
        searchView.onActionViewCollapsed();
    } else {
        super.onBackPressed();
    }
}

or use:

myToolBar.collapseActionView();

This will make the searchView to collapse before you press the back then the back action will be called.

Both solutions will work.