Auto Collapse ActionBar SearchView on Soft Keyboard close

Question

I am currently using an ActionBar menu item to display a SearchView in the action bar. When the search menu item is expanded the soft keyboard is displayed which is what I

Answer 1

For some reason, menuItem.collapseActionView() did not work so I used searchView.setIconified(true) instead.

This gives the below result as the code sample.

final MenuItem searchItem = (MenuItem) menu.findItem(R.id.menu_item_search);
final SearchView searchView = (SearchView) searchItem.getActionView();

searchView.setOnQueryTextFocusChangeListener(new SearchView.OnFocusChangeListener() {
    @Override
    public void onFocusChange(View v, boolean hasFocus) {
        if (!hasFocus) {
            searchView.setIconified(true);
        }
    }
});