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 make it work by clearingfocus on the search edit text during the menu creation function. Code below:

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

        ...

        final MenuItem searchItem = menu.findItem(R.id.action_search);

        if (searchItem != null) {
            // Associate searchable configuration with the SearchView
            SearchManager searchManager = (SearchManager) getSystemService(Context.SEARCH_SERVICE);
            final SearchView view = (SearchView) searchItem.getActionView();
            if(view !=null){
                LinearLayout searchPlate = (LinearLayout)mSearchView.findViewById(R.id.search_plate);
                if(searchPlate != null){
                    mSearchEditText = (EditText)searchPlate.findViewById(R.id.search_src_text);
                    if(mSearchEditText != null){
                        mSearchEditText.clearFocus();     // This fixes the keyboard from popping up each time
                    }
                }
            }
        }
}