Expand and give focus to SearchView automatically

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Android Problem Overview

I'm developing an application where the user presses the "Search" icon in the ActionBar and a SearchView is made visible at the top of the screen.

My problem is that the SearchView is not in focus nor expanded so the user has to press the search button on the Searchview to make it expand and bring out the keyboard.

How should this be solved?

Android Solutions

Solution 1 - Android

You can also call to expandActionView() method in order to force it:

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu( Menu menu )
{
	super.onCreateOptionsMenu( menu );

	MenuItem searchMenuItem = menu.findItem( R.id.mi_search ); // get my MenuItem with placeholder submenu
	searchMenuItem.expandActionView(); // Expand the search menu item in order to show by default the query

	return true;
}

Search item in the Action Bar layout:

<item
        android:id="@+id/mi_search"
        android:icon="@drawable/abs__ic_search_api_holo_light"
        android:title="@string/search"
        android:showAsAction="ifRoom|collapseActionView"
        android:actionViewClass="com.actionbarsherlock.widget.SearchView"
        />

Solution 2 - Android

To make the SearchView expanded by default, call setIconifiedByDefault(false) on it when you initialise it (e.g. in onCreateOptionsMenu(..) or onPrepareOptionsMenu(..)). I've found in most cases this will give it focus automatically, but if not simply call requestFocus() on it too.

Solution 3 - Android

If you want to have it iconifiedByDefault, this worked for me. setFocusable and setIconified are needed.

    SearchView searchView = (SearchView) menu.findItem(R.id.action_search).getActionView();
    searchView.setIconifiedByDefault(true);
    searchView.setFocusable(true);
    searchView.setIconified(false);
    searchView.requestFocusFromTouch();

Update: If you are Using android.support.v7.widget.SearchView the behaviour us very different. clearFocus is needed if you don't want the keyboard pop-up all the time. For some reason the menu is recreated all the time, when using appcompat.

SearchView searchView = (SearchView) menu.findItem(R.id.action_search).getActionView();
searchView.setIconified(false);
searchView.clearFocus();

Solution 4 - Android

If you're using it in layout, you can call

mSearchView.onActionViewExpanded()

Solution 5 - Android

This worked for me :

In the root layout :

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

SearchView defined as follows :

 <android.support.v7.widget.SearchView
        android:id="@+id/search_contacts"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
        android:layout_margin="15dp"
        android:background="@drawable/search_view"        
        app:iconifiedByDefault="false"
        app:queryHint="Search name or email"
        >

        <requestFocus />
    </android.support.v7.widget.SearchView>

The difference is with app tag.

app:iconifiedByDefault="false"
app:queryHint="Search name or email"

Solution 6 - Android

If you are using inside an activity you need to use

view.onActionViewExpanded();

if you are using inside menu options you need to use

MenuItem.expandActionView();

Note: it works only for SearchView

these two situations are worked for me.

Solution 7 - Android

This worked for me:

menu.expandActionView();

Solution 8 - Android

You can use the SearchView#setIconified() method on a SearchView handle in your Java code. More here:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/SearchView.html#setIconified(boolean)

You can also make use of SearchView#setIconifiedByDefault(). More info here:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/SearchView.html#setIconifiedByDefault(boolean)

Solution 9 - Android

use this

SearchManager searchManager = (SearchManager) mActivity.getSystemService(Context.SEARCH_SERVICE);
                SearchView searchView = new SearchView(mActivity.actionBar.getThemedContext());
                searchView.setSearchableInfo(searchManager.getSearchableInfo(mActivity.getComponentName()));
                searchView.setIconifiedByDefault(false);
                searchView.setQueryHint("Search");
                menu.findItem(R.id.action_search).setActionView(searchView);

Solution 10 - Android

@Pascalius's answer worked for me. But every time you close the SearchView, and click again, you lost the Focus. So I inserted the code in a setOnMenuItemClickListener like this:

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

SearchManager searchManager = (SearchManager) getSystemService(Context.SEARCH_SERVICE);
final SearchView searchView = (SearchView) item.getActionView();

item.setOnMenuItemClickListener(new MenuItem.OnMenuItemClickListener() {
    @Override
    public boolean onMenuItemClick(MenuItem menuItem) {
        searchView.setIconifiedByDefault(true);
        searchView.setFocusable(true);
        searchView.setIconified(false);
        searchView.requestFocusFromTouch();

        return false;
    }
});

Solution 11 - Android

For Appcompat Searchview you can use this method:

MenuItemCompat.expandActionView(mSearchMenuItem);

Solution 12 - Android

Kotlin

var searchView = menu.findItem(R.id.action_search).actionView as SearchView
searchView.isIconified = true

Solution 13 - Android

Call expandActionView() on the menuItem.

menuItem.expandActionView()

Solution 14 - Android

I was having a hard time doing this with SearchView widget, but the expandActionView() method is actually defined in the MenuItem class, not SearchView class. So, I solved it by

        MenuItem searchItem = menu.findItem(R.id.item_search);
        SearchView   searchView = (SearchView) searchItem.getActionView();
        searchItem.expandActionView();//the method expandActionView is called on searchItem not searchView

Solution 15 - Android

MenuItemCompat's SearchView has a property named maxWidth.

final MenuItem searchItem = menu.findItem(R.id.action_search);
final SearchView searchView = (SearchView) MenuItemCompat.getActionView(searchItem);
searchView.setMaxWidth(xxx);

use screen width instead of xxx offcourse

Solution 16 - Android

I am using android.widget Searchview and iconified by default.Below code in xml helped me make it expand and autofocus on search view,when clicked:

<SearchView
                android:id="@+id/searchView"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:iconifiedByDefault="true"
                android:focusable="true"
                android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
                android:queryHint="Search"/>

Solution 17 - Android

 <item
        android:id="@+id/search"
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_search"
        android:title="Search"
        app:actionViewClass="androidx.appcompat.widget.SearchView"
        app:showAsAction="always"/>

 public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.search_menu, menu);
        // Associate searchable configuration with the SearchView
        SearchManager searchManager = (SearchManager) getSystemService(Context.SEARCH_SERVICE);
        searchView = (SearchView) menu.findItem(R.id.search).getActionView();
        searchView.setQueryHint("Search the customer...");
        searchView.setSearchableInfo(Objects.requireNonNull(searchManager).getSearchableInfo(getComponentName()));
        searchView.setMaxWidth(Integer.MAX_VALUE);
        searchView.setIconifiedByDefault(false);
        searchView.requestFocus();

    }


<pre>

 <item
        android:id="@+id/search"
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_search"
        android:title="Search"
        app:actionViewClass="androidx.appcompat.widget.SearchView"
        app:showAsAction="always"/>

 public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.search_menu, menu);
        // Associate searchable configuration with the SearchView
        SearchManager searchManager = (SearchManager) getSystemService(Context.SEARCH_SERVICE);
        searchView = (SearchView) menu.findItem(R.id.search).getActionView();
        searchView.setQueryHint("Search the customer...");
        searchView.setSearchableInfo(Objects.requireNonNull(searchManager).getSearchableInfo(getComponentName()));
        searchView.setMaxWidth(Integer.MAX_VALUE);
        searchView.setIconifiedByDefault(false);
        searchView.requestFocus();

    }

</pre>

Solution 18 - Android

android:iconifiedByDefault="true"

Above is the code in XML helped me make it expand and autofocus on search view when clicked:

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