Cannot Get Searchview in Actionbar to Work

Can't get SearchView in actionbar to work

In your list_menu.xml,

android:actionViewClass="android.support.v7.widget.SearchView"

should be changed to:

app:actionViewClass="android.support.v7.widget.SearchView"

Cannot get searchview in actionbar to work

Your problem is in your AndroidManifest. I had it almost exactly as you do, because that is what I get following the documentation. But it is unclear or mistaken.

Watching at the API Demos source I found that the "android.app.searchable" metadata must go in your "results" activity, and in the main activity (or the activity where you place the SearchView) you point to the other one with "android.app.default_searchable".

You can see it in the following file, which is the Manifest from my test project:

<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
package="com.example.test"
android:versionCode="1"
android:versionName="1.0" >

<uses-sdk
    android:minSdkVersion="8"
    android:targetSdkVersion="15" />

<application
    android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
    android:label="@string/app_name"
    android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >
    <activity
        android:name=".MainActivity"
        android:label="@string/title_activity_main" >
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
        </intent-filter>

        <meta-data
            android:name="android.app.default_searchable"
            android:value=".SearchActivity" />
    </activity>
    <activity
        android:name=".SearchActivity"
        android:label="@string/app_name" >

        <!-- This intent-filter identifies this activity as "searchable" -->

        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.SEARCH" />

            <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
        </intent-filter>

        <!-- This metadata entry provides further configuration details for searches -->
        <!-- that are handled by this activity. -->

        <meta-data
            android:name="android.app.searchable"
            android:resource="@xml/searchable" />
    </activity>
</application>

It is also important that the hint and label in the searchable.xml are references, and not hardcoded strings.

I hope it solves your problem. It took me all day to figure it out :(

Android expanded SearchView makes other ActionBar items disappear

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);
}

SearchView doesn't appear in Toolbar - Android Lollipop

Use your app namespace:

xmlns:myapp="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"

myapp:showAsAction="always"

Explanation:
Since you are using a support library for old android versions and it is not included into the sdk, the android namespace doesn't contains the showAsAction attribute, which is rather contained into the support library you linked to your project, so to reach the attribute you must use your app namespace

SearchView in my application doesn't seem to be working

Found the answer! In the onCreate method of my main activity (Not the search activity), I added the following lines:

SearchManager searchManager = (SearchManager)getSystemService(Context.SEARCH_SERVICE);
SearchableInfo searchableInfo = searchManager.getSearchableInfo(getComponentName());

SearchView sv = (SearchView)findViewById(R.id.searchView1);
sv.setSearchableInfo(searchableInfo);

I am trying to integrate SearchView in ActionBar error(MenuItem1 cannot be cast to android.widget.SearchView)

Try to delete the import library android.widget.SearchView and when you pass the cursor to import it again, verified that you more options.

The misconception is that doing the Cast (SearchManager) one object that is not your type, try this if you have worked

SearchManager manager = (SearchManager) getSystemService(Context.SEARCH_SERVICE);
SearchView search = (SearchView) menu.findItem (R.id.actionSearch) .getActionView ();

SearchView in ActionBar -- problems with the *Up* button

I have written a StatefulSearchView which retains the text:

import android.content.Context;
import android.os.Parcel;
import android.os.Parcelable;
import android.text.TextUtils;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.SearchView;
import android.widget.SearchView.OnQueryTextListener;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class StatefulSearchView extends SearchView implements android.view.View.OnLayoutChangeListener, OnQueryTextListener,android.widget.SearchView.OnCloseListener{

    private boolean mSaveText=true;
    private OnQueryTextListener mQueryListener;
    private String mQuery;
    private OnCloseListener mCloseListener;
    private boolean fromIconify = true;

    public StatefulSearchView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
        addOnLayoutChangeListener(this);
        super.setOnCloseListener(this);
    }

    public StatefulSearchView(Context context) {
        super(context);
        // TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
        addOnLayoutChangeListener(this);
        super.setOnCloseListener(this);
    }

    public void setSaveSearchTextState(boolean save){
        this.mSaveText = save;
        this.setSaveEnabled(mSaveText);

    }


    public void setOnStatefulQueryTextListener(OnQueryTextListener listener) {
        mQueryListener = listener; 
        super.setOnQueryTextListener(this);
    }

    @Override
    public void onLayoutChange(View v, int left, int top, int right,
            int bottom, int oldLeft, int oldTop, int oldRight, int oldBottom) {
        if(super.isIconfiedByDefault() || !super.isIconified() && !TextUtils.isEmpty(mQuery) && mSaveText){      
              setSavedText(mQuery);              
        }
         Log.i("onLayoutChanged()",""+mQuery);

    }


    @Override
    public void setIconified(boolean iconify) {
        mQuery = getQuery().toString();
        Log.i("setIconified()",""+mQuery);
        super.setOnCloseListener(null);
        super.setIconified(iconify);
        super.setIconified(iconify);
        super.setOnCloseListener(this);
        fromIconify = true;
    }


    @Override
    public void setOnCloseListener(OnCloseListener listener) {
        mCloseListener = listener;
        super.setOnCloseListener(this);
    }

    @Override
    protected Parcelable onSaveInstanceState() {
        Parcelable state =  super.onSaveInstanceState();
        return new SearchQueryState(state, mQuery, mSaveText);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onRestoreInstanceState(Parcelable state) {
        SearchQueryState sqs = (SearchQueryState)state;
        super.onRestoreInstanceState(sqs.getSuperState());
        mQuery = sqs.getSavedQuery();
        mSaveText = sqs.getSaveText();
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onQueryTextChange(String arg0) {
        mQuery = arg0;
        return mQueryListener.onQueryTextChange(mQuery);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onQueryTextSubmit(String arg0) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        return mQueryListener.onQueryTextSubmit(arg0);
    }

    private TextView getTextView(){
        int searchTextViewId = getContext().getResources().getIdentifier("android:id/search_src_text", null, null);
        return (TextView) this.findViewById(searchTextViewId);
    }

    private void setSavedText(String s){
       super.setOnQueryTextListener(null);
       Log.i("setSavedText()",""+s);
       TextView t = getTextView();
       t.setText(s);
       if(!TextUtils.isEmpty(s))
           ((EditText)t).setSelection(s.length());
       super.setOnQueryTextListener(mQueryListener);
    }
    private class SearchQueryState extends BaseSavedState{

        private boolean mSaveText;
        private String mQueryText;
        public SearchQueryState(Parcel arg0) {
            super(arg0);
            this.mQueryText = arg0.readString();
            this.mSaveText = arg0.readInt() == 1;
        }

        public SearchQueryState(Parcelable superState, String queryText, boolean saveText) {
            super(superState);
            this.mQueryText = queryText;
            this.mSaveText = saveText;
        }

        public boolean getSaveText(){
            return this.mSaveText;
        }


        public String getSavedQuery(){
            return mQueryText;
        }
        @Override
        public void writeToParcel(Parcel dest, int flags) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            super.writeToParcel(dest, flags);
            dest.writeString(mQueryText);
            dest.writeInt(mSaveText? 1: 0);
        }


    }

    @Override
    public boolean onClose() {
        Log.i("onClose()", "Is from setIconified(): "+fromIconify);
        if(!fromIconify){
            mQuery = null;
            fromIconify = false;
        }
        return mCloseListener == null ? false : mCloseListener.onClose();
    }


}

In demonstration activity:

public class MainActivity extends Activity{

    private StatefulSearchView mSearchView;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        getActionBar().setHomeButtonEnabled(true);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onMenuItemSelected(int featureId, MenuItem item) {
      if(item.getItemId()==android.R.id.home) {
          mSearchView.setIconified(true);
          return true;
      }
        return super.onMenuItemSelected(featureId, item);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);

            MenuItem item = menu.findItem(R.id.action_search);

         mSearchView =(StatefulSearchView)item.getActionView();
         mSearchView.setSaveSearchTextState(true);
         mSearchView.setOnStatefulQueryTextListener(new OnQueryTextListener(){

            @Override
            public boolean onQueryTextChange(String newText) {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                return false;
            }

            @Override
            public boolean onQueryTextSubmit(String query) {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                return false;
            }});
        return true;
    }

In menu xml:

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >

    <item
        android:id="@+id/action_search"
        android:orderInCategory="100"
        android:showAsAction="always"
        android:actionViewClass="com.nikola.despotoski.saveablesearchview.StatefulSearchView"
        android:title="@string/action_settings"/>

</menu>

In the source of the SearchView, it clearly says that they change the text to "":

@Override
    public void onActionViewCollapsed() {
        setQuery("", false);
        clearFocus();
        updateViewsVisibility(true);
        mQueryTextView.setImeOptions(mCollapsedImeOptions);
        mExpandedInActionView = false;
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritDoc}
     */
    @Override
    public void onActionViewExpanded() {
        if (mExpandedInActionView) return;

        mExpandedInActionView = true;
        mCollapsedImeOptions = mQueryTextView.getImeOptions();
        mQueryTextView.setImeOptions(mCollapsedImeOptions | EditorInfo.IME_FLAG_NO_FULLSCREEN);
        mQueryTextView.setText("");
        setIconified(false);
    }

Let me know if you have issues.

Android SearchView on ActionBar, detect click on Search

You can use this tо detect search key press in action bar search:

searchView.setOnQueryTextListener(new SearchView.OnQueryTextListener() {

            @Override
            public boolean onQueryTextSubmit(String s) {
                [You actions here]
                return false;
            }
}

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