Android SearchView onclick

Question

I have a searchView which looks like this:

private void setupSearchView() {
    mSearchView = (SearchView) getActivity().findViewById(
            R.id.search_vi         


        

Answer 1

This will do exactly what you're trying to achieve. setIconified(false) will keep the cross icon at this end of the SearchView so that the user can still cancel the same way as if the magnifying glass was clicked.

searchView.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {
        searchView.setIconified(false);
    }
});