Remove the SearchIcon as hint in the searchView

Question

I am doing an application where for example when i click on the image(it is a searchView)

Answer 1

Use "searchHintIcon" attribute in your styles for that:

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
    <item name="searchViewStyle">@style/AppTheme.SearchView</item>
</style>

<style name="AppTheme.SearchView" parent="Widget.AppCompat.SearchView">
    <item name="searchHintIcon">@null</item>
</style>

You can replace @null with any drawable res you want

Answer 2

It's answer

ImageView searchViewIcon = (ImageView)searchView.findViewById(android.support.v7.appcompat.R.id.search_mag_icon);

ViewGroup linearLayoutSearchView =(ViewGroup) searchViewIcon.getParent();
linearLayoutSearchView.removeView(searchViewIcon);

Answer 3

Try these three lines:

android:iconifiedByDefault="false"
android:searchIcon="@null"
android:searchHintIcon="@null"

*It works only for android.widget.SearchView

Answer 4

androidx.appcompat.widget.SearchView

If you use androidx.appcompat.widget.SearchView:

You can hide the icon using this:

val magImage = searchView.findViewById<View>(androidx.appcompat.R.id.search_mag_icon) as ImageView
magImage.layoutParams = LinearLayout.LayoutParams(0, 0)

Answer 5

I've simply put @null to searchHintIcon attribute:

<style name="SearchViewMy" parent="Widget.AppCompat.Light.SearchView">
    <item name="searchHintIcon">@null</item>
</style>

and applied that style in my app theme

<style name="Theme.App" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar.FullScreen">
    <item name="searchViewStyle">@style/SearchViewMy</item>
</style>

Works for me.

Answer 6

Simple solution is searchHintIcon attribute

<style name="SearchViewStyleMyApp" parent="Widget.AppCompat.SearchView">
        <!-- Background for the search query section (e.g. EditText) -->
        <item name="queryBackground">@android:color/white</item>
        <!-- note that this is how you style your hint icon -->
        <item name="searchHintIcon">@null</item>
        <!-- The hint text that appears when the user has not typed anything -->
        <item name="queryHint">@string/search_hint</item>
    </style>