SearchView remove blue focus line and show cursor at certain position

Question

I have been trying to remove the blue focus line in the SearchView .I am casting it to a AutoCompleteTextView so that I can use customized icons for my searchView.

Answer 1

I was able to solve it by setting the background of the default searchview plate as follows

int searchPlateId = searchView.getContext().getResources()
            .getIdentifier("android:id/search_plate", null, null);
    View searchPlateView = searchView.findViewById(searchPlateId);
    if (searchPlateView != null) {
        searchPlateView.setBackgroundColor(Color.BLACK);
    }

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