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 Android API 14+ (ICS and greater) use this code:

// When using the support library, the setOnActionExpandListener() method is
// static and accepts the MenuItem object as an argument
MenuItemCompat.setOnActionExpandListener(menuItem, new OnActionExpandListener() {
    @Override
    public boolean onMenuItemActionCollapse(MenuItem item) {
        // Do something when collapsed
        return true;  // Return true to collapse action view
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onMenuItemActionExpand(MenuItem item) {
        // Do something when expanded
        return true;  // Return true to expand action view
    }
});

For more information: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/actionbar.html#ActionView

Ref: onActionCollapse/onActionExpand

Answer 2

I ran into same problem on android 4.1.1. Looks like it is a known bug: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=25758

Anyway, as a workaround i used state change listener (when SearchView is detached from action bar, it is also closed obviously).

view.addOnAttachStateChangeListener(new OnAttachStateChangeListener() {

    @Override
    public void onViewDetachedFromWindow(View arg0) {
        // search was detached/closed
    }

    @Override
    public void onViewAttachedToWindow(View arg0) {
        // search was opened
    }
});

Above code worked well in my case.

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I post same answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/24573266/2162924

Answer 3

In order to make the OnCloseListener work, make sure that showAsAction is set to always in the search menu item.

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
      xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
      xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
      tools:context=".SearchActivity">

    <item
        android:id="@+id/search"
        android:title="@string/search"
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_search_toolbar"
        app:showAsAction="always"
        app:actionViewClass="android.support.v7.widget.SearchView"/>
</menu>

Answer 4

    searchView.setOnCloseListener {
        d("click", "close clicked")
        return@setOnCloseListener false
    }

if you click on close searchView ->

D/click: close clicked

Answer 5

Well, this solved my problem:

Menu item with showAsAction="always"

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

and in activity

searchView.setOnCloseListener(new OnCloseListener() {

        @Override
        public boolean onClose() {

            Log.i("SearchView:", "onClose");
            searchView.onActionViewCollapsed();
            return false;
        }
    });

Answer 6

For MenuItemCompat problem I added ViewTreeObserver to track the visibility state. You can check my answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/28762632/1633609