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

To intercept BACK button override onBackPressed() (see docs)

@Override
public void onBackPressed() {

    if (isSearchViewVisible) {
        SearchView searchView = (SearchView) menu.findItem(R.id.searchBox)
           .getActionView();

        // This method does not exist
        searchView.invokeClose();
    } else {
        super.onBackPressed();
    }
}

EDIT:

Docs say:

If necessary, you can expand or collapse the action view in your own code by calling expandActionView() and collapseActionView() on the MenuItem.

Answer 2

Also you can use collapseActionView. It automatically handle back button, collapsing SearchView

<item
      android:id="@+id/action_search"
      android:icon="@drawable/ic_magnify"
      android:title="@string/action_title_search"
      app:actionViewClass="android.support.v7.widget.SearchView"
      app:showAsAction="ifRoom|collapseActionView" />

Answer 3

Based on @MarcinOrlowski answer, also you can use:

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

Answer 4

if you have input on your searchView

mSearchView.setIconified(true);

will only clear the text.

The correct method to close a searchView is

mSearchView.onActionViewCollapsed();

Answer 5

this is the only thing that does it for me:

  toolbar.collapseActionView();

Answer 6

No need to use onBackPressed() method for this!! I found the solution, do only as I mentioned below so that the SearchView itself handle the on back button press event.

Inside your onCreateOptionsMenu() method,

@Override
public void onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu, MenuInflater inflater) {
    MenuItem menuItem = menu.findItem(R.id.action_search);
    SearchView searchview = (SearchView) menuItem.getActionView();
    searchview.setIconifiedByDefault(true);
    searchview.setQueryHint("Enter your keyword");
    searchview.setOnQueryTextListener(this); 
    super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu, inflater);
}

In your menu.xml add showAsAction attribute and set its values as "always|collapseActionView"

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

And you're ready to go ;)

P.S. - I was searching for a solution from a long time and now I found one, hope it helps you all.