How to completely collapse a SearchView after an item selected?

Question

I\'ve been struggling with this for weeks.. I have a global search that offers up a custom listview with suggestions as a user types. When a user selects an option, I want the s

Answer 1

@sebastian that's not actually right.

I've been stucked at this issue for a while, but finally I've managed to handle it in the right way. You're suppose to call menuSearch.collapseActionView(); instead. This method will call onActionViewCollapsed, which you could override. So you don't call a listener ;)

MenuItem menuSearch = menu.findItem(R.id.itemSearch);
SearchView searchView = (SearchView) menuSearch.getActionView();
//Don't use next line
//searchView.onActionViewCollapsed();
menuSearch.collapseActionView();