Searchview not showing in Toolbar

Question

I have actually a problem with my Searchview on the Support AppCompat v7 lib 24.0.0.

The SearchView is not shown up no text and input text (look screenshot)

Answer 1

if you are using theme: .NoActionBar set this in your onCreate()

setSupportActionBar(toolbar);

Answer 2

As @Apruv mentioned above If you are using NoActionBar in your styles.xml then try to add this line in your onCreate().This will work for sure. I just done this all it works perfect.

setSupportActionBar(toolbar);

Answer 3

i have this problem too, i've changed Toolbar height to absolute value instead of wrap_content and problem solved. i don't know why but i think this issue is related to CoordinatorLayout and height of toolbar, something breaks the SearchView height. if i use LinearLayout instead of CoordinatorLayout and AppBarLayout it works.

menu.xml

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">
    <item
        android:id="@+id/action_search"
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_search_white_24dp"
        android:orderInCategory="100"
        android:title="@string/action_search"
        app:actionViewClass="android.support.v7.widget.SearchView"
        app:showAsAction="always|collapseActionView" />
</menu>

layout.xml

<android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">

    <android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:theme="@style/AppTheme.AppBarOverlay">

        <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
            android:id="@+id/toolbar"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="@dimen/toolbar_height"
            android:paddingTop="@dimen/toolbar_top_padding"
            android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
            app:title="@string/drawer_item_publisher_customization"
            app:layout_scrollFlags="scroll|enterAlways|snap"
            android:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar"
            app:popupTheme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light" />

        <android.support.design.widget.TabLayout
            android:id="@+id/tabLayout"
            app:tabGravity="fill"
            style="@style/DefaultTabLayout"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

    </android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout>

    <android.support.v4.view.ViewPager
        android:id="@+id/viewPager"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        app:layout_behavior="@string/appbar_scrolling_view_behavior" />

</android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout>

toolbar_height value:

<dimen name="toolbar_height">75dp</dimen>

Before absolute height value (layout_height:"wrap_content"):

After absolute height value (layout_height:"75dp"):

Answer 4

This is very odd. I'm using build tools 25.0.1 and support lib 25.1.0. For me the accepted answer was not necessary, but the way the menu item was defined needs a small change. I need it like so:

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
  xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">
<item
    android:id="@+id/search"
    android:title="@string/search_title"
    android:icon="@drawable/ic_search_24dp"
    app:showAsAction="always|collapseActionView"
    app:actionViewClass="android.widget.SearchView"/>

Where app:showAsAction is the key. Lint underlines this as red and tells me:

Should use android:showAsAction when using the appcompat library.

However if I have it set to android:showAsAction then the search view simply does not appear. Go figure.

Answer 5

Make sure you have add AppCompat library to your project. Is your activity was extended "AppCompatActivity"?

And also showAsAction shoud be: showAsAction="always|collapseActionView"

Hope this help!