SearchView's OnCloseListener doesn't work

Question

I\'m trying to add support for the SearchView in the Android 3.0+ ActionBar, but I can\'t get the OnCloseListener to work.

Here\'s my code:

Answer 1

For this problem I came up with something like this,

private SearchView mSearchView;

@TargetApi(14)
@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu)
{

    MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
    inflater.inflate(R.menu.conversation_index_activity_menu, menu);

    mSearchView = (SearchView) menu.findItem(R.id.itemSearch).getActionView();

    MenuItem menuItem = menu.findItem(R.id.itemSearch);

    int currentapiVersion = android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT;
    if (currentapiVersion >= android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.ICE_CREAM_SANDWICH)
    {
        menuItem.setOnActionExpandListener(new OnActionExpandListener()
        {

            @Override
            public boolean onMenuItemActionCollapse(MenuItem item)
            {
                // Do something when collapsed
                Log.i(TAG, "onMenuItemActionCollapse " + item.getItemId());
                return true; // Return true to collapse action view
            }

            @Override
            public boolean onMenuItemActionExpand(MenuItem item)
            {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                Log.i(TAG, "onMenuItemActionExpand " + item.getItemId());
                return true;
            }
        });
    } else
    {
        // do something for phones running an SDK before froyo
        mSearchView.setOnCloseListener(new OnCloseListener()
        {

            @Override
            public boolean onClose()
            {
                Log.i(TAG, "mSearchView on close ");
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                return false;
            }
        });
    }


    return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);

}

Answer 2

Create the menu item with the app:showAsAction set to always.

<item   
 android:id="@+id/action_search"  
 android:title="..."  
 android:icon="..."  
 app:actionViewClass="android.support.v7.widget.SearchView"  
 app:showAsAction="always"/>

When creating the SearchView in the onCreateOptionsMenu method do something similar

inflater.inflate(R.menu.menu_search, menu);
final MenuItem item = menu.findItem(R.id.action_search);
final SearchView search = (SearchView) item.getActionView();
search.setQueryHint(getString(R.string.search_brand_item));
search.setOnQueryTextListener(new SearchView.OnQueryTextListener() {
  @Override
  public boolean onQueryTextSubmit(String query) {
    // add your code
    return false;
  }

  @Override
  public boolean onQueryTextChange(String newText) {
    // add your code 
    return false;
  }
});
search.setOnCloseListener(new SearchView.OnCloseListener() {
  @Override
  public boolean onClose() {
    // add your code here
    return false;
  }
});
search.setIconifiedByDefault(true); // make sure to set this to true

The search.setIconifiedByDefault(true) needs to be set to true to call the onClose() method on the SearchView.OnCloseListener() created above.

Answer 3

It's a workaround but has worked for me

  searchView.setOnQueryTextListener(new android.widget.SearchView.OnQueryTextListener() {

                String lastText;

                @Override
                public boolean onQueryTextChange(final String newText) {
                    if (lastText != null && lastText.length() > 1 && newText.isEmpty()) {
                        // close ctn clicked

                        return true;
                    }
}

Answer 4

I ended up using a bit of a hack, that works well for my purpose - not sure it'll work with all purposes. Anyway, I'm doing a check to see if the search query is empty. This is not really related to the SearchView's OnCloseListener though - that still doesn't work!

searchView.setOnQueryTextListener(new OnQueryTextListener() {
            @Override
            public boolean onQueryTextChange(String newText) {
                if (newText.length() > 0) {
                    // Search
                } else {
                    // Do something when there's no input
                }
                return false;
            }
            @Override
            public boolean onQueryTextSubmit(String query) { return false; }
        });

Answer 5

I used the SearchView close button and set a setOnClickListener on it

searchView.findViewById<ImageView>(R.id.search_close_btn).setOnClickListener {
    searchView.setQuery("", false)
    searchView.clearFocus()
}

Answer 6

I have encountered the same problem with onCloseListener not invoking for the SearchView. Understand from the bug issue raised in 25758, and some postings I have read, to invoke onCloseListener, you need to set:

searchView.setIconifiedByDefault(true);

But for my case I wanted to have the search view opened & not iconified all the time. I manage to resolve this by adding one more line below:

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
    inflater.inflate(R.menu.search_bar, menu);
    SearchManager searchManager = (SearchManager) getSystemService(Context.SEARCH_SERVICE);
    searchView = (SearchView) menu.findItem(R.id.search).getActionView();
    searchView.setSearchableInfo(searchManager.getSearchableInfo(getComponentName()));
    searchView.setOnQueryTextListener(queryTextListener);
    searchView.setIconifiedByDefault(true);
    searchView.setIconified(false);
    return true;
}

The searchView.setIconified(false) will cause the searchView to open up, despite setting the default to iconified to true in the previous line. In this way, I managed to have both a SearchView that opens up all the time & having it invoke the onCloseListener.