How to remove focus from SearchView?

Question

I want to remove focus and text from SearchView in onResume().

I tried searchView.clearFocus() but it is not working.

Thi

Answer 1

For those who are looking to get rid of the focus when the Activity is started AND the SearchView is in the Menu, I did these 3 things, it might work with just a few:

1.- Create a parent class of SearchView. Let's call it RafaSearchView:

class RafaSearchView @JvmOverloads constructor(context: Context, attrs: AttributeSet? = null, defStyleAttr: Int = 0)
    : SearchView(context, attrs, defStyleAttr) {

    init {
        setIconifiedByDefault(false)
    }
}

2.- Get the xml where you have your Toolbar, and set touchable="false" and focusableInTouchMode="true":

    <androidx.appcompat.widget.Toolbar
        android:id="@+id/searchToolbar"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
        android:background="@color/white"
        android:focusable="false"
        android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
        android:theme="@style/ToolBarStyle"
        app:popupTheme="@style/AppTheme.PopupOverlay" />

3.- On onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu) when I'm declaring my RafaSearchView, call:

    searchView?.isIconified = false
    searchView?.clearFocus()

Answer 2

The simplest (and I think, the only 100% working) solution is, to create an invisible LinearLayout. This LinearLayout will grab the focus from the EditText.

Answer 3

I had just request focus to some other viewgroup and it removed focus from th searchview. Like in the parent viewgroup eg(Linearlayout, RelativeLayout) in which searchview is present, add

focusable = false; focusableInTouchMode=true

to the parent viewgroup.

Answer 4

Just searchView.clearFocus(); in onResume()helped my case