Auto Collapse ActionBar SearchView on Soft Keyboard close

Question

I am currently using an ActionBar menu item to display a SearchView in the action bar. When the search menu item is expanded the soft keyboard is displayed which is what I

Answer 1

You only need to put the "collapseActionView" attribute in the menu layout

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
      xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">
    <item
        android:id="@+id/menu_item_search"
        android:title="@string/search"
        android:iconifiedByDefault="true"
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_action_search" 
        app:actionViewClass="android.support.v7.widget.SearchView"
        app:showAsAction="ifRoom|collapseActionView"/> <--this one
</menu>

That will give you the functionality you look for all by itself.Don't forget to call the method "clearFocus" on the SearchView to close the keyboard once you send the query.

Answer 2

If you want to collapse keyboard when user clicks search icon on keyboard this can be achieved by simple

inside onquerytextsubmitted {

searchView.clearfocus()

}

Answer 3

Just Override onBackPressed like this:

@Override
    public void onBackPressed() {
        if (searchView.isShown()){
            searchView.onActionViewCollapsed();  //collapse your ActionView
            searchView.setQuery("",false);       //clears your query without submit
            isClosed = true;                     //needed to handle closed by back
        } else{
            super.onBackPressed();
        }
    }

and your onCreateOptionsMenu would inflate the mSearchView like this:

@Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu_search, menu);
        mSearchView = (SearchView) menu.findItem(R.id.menu_action_search).getActionView();
        mSearchView.setOnQueryTextListener(this);
        mSearchView.setOnSearchClickListener(this);
        mSearchView.setOnCloseListener(this);
        isClosed = true;
        return true;
    }

have you class implement the following like this:

public class myActivity extends FragmentActivity implements
    SearchView.OnQueryTextListener, View.OnClickListener, SearchView.OnCloseListener {

which you will also need:

@Override
public void onClick(View view) {
    isClosed = false;
}

@Override
public boolean onClose() {
    isClosed = true;
    return false;
}

You will need to make "mSearchView" and "isClosed" both global variables to the activity.

Answer 4

You need to call setIconified twice.

To actually collapse your search view and close the keyboard.
With first call text of search view is cleared with second call keyboard and search view get closed.

Answer 5

For some reason, menuItem.collapseActionView() did not work so I used searchView.setIconified(true) instead.

This gives the below result as the code sample.

final MenuItem searchItem = (MenuItem) menu.findItem(R.id.menu_item_search);
final SearchView searchView = (SearchView) searchItem.getActionView();

searchView.setOnQueryTextFocusChangeListener(new SearchView.OnFocusChangeListener() {
    @Override
    public void onFocusChange(View v, boolean hasFocus) {
        if (!hasFocus) {
            searchView.setIconified(true);
        }
    }
});