How to remove focus from SearchView?

Question

I want to remove focus and text from SearchView in onResume().

I tried searchView.clearFocus() but it is not working.

Thi

Answer 1

For those who are looking to get rid of the focus when the Activity is started AND the SearchView is in the Menu, I did these 3 things, it might work with just a few:

1.- Create a parent class of SearchView. Let's call it RafaSearchView:

class RafaSearchView @JvmOverloads constructor(context: Context, attrs: AttributeSet? = null, defStyleAttr: Int = 0)
    : SearchView(context, attrs, defStyleAttr) {

    init {
        setIconifiedByDefault(false)
    }
}

2.- Get the xml where you have your Toolbar, and set touchable="false" and focusableInTouchMode="true":

3.- On onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu) when I'm declaring my RafaSearchView, call:

    searchView?.isIconified = false
    searchView?.clearFocus()