Changing the background color of searchview autocomplete dropdown

Question

I have a searchview with a content provider for custom suggestions, which are displayed in a dropdown. However, the dropdown background is dark while the text is black so it\'s

Answer 1

i think you should use

SearchView.SearchAutoComplete autoCompleteTextView = (SearchView.SearchAutoComplete) searchView.findViewById(R.id.search_src_text);
if (autoCompleteTextView != null) {
    autoCompleteTextView.setDropDownBackgroundDrawable(getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.abc_popup_background_mtrl_mult));
}

this can set the SearchAutoComplete dropdown background to Light