Android - Make whole search bar clickable

Question

I am using a search-view element in my fragment to implement search feature.

Answer 1

This can be simply done by setting Iconified to false on OnClick of SearchView.

searchBar.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {
        searchBar.setIconified(false);
    }
});

Reference: Eric Lui's answer

Hopefully it will help.

UPDATE:

You can also use it directly in your XML

app:iconifiedByDefault="false"

Answer 2

For latest versions of android - Try:

app:iconifiedByDefault="false"

Example -

<android.support.v7.widget.SearchView
android:id="@+id/source_location_search"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginLeft="20dp"
android:layout_marginTop="15dp"
android:layout_marginRight="20dp"
app:iconifiedByDefault="false"
app:queryHint="Your hint text" />

Answer 3

searchView.setIconified(false);

Answer 4

So recently I've had to do this and I tried all the answers provided but each had some dodgy behaviour - for example the x close/erase all button would only show up if you'd clicked on the search icon, otherwise you'd be able to edit etc. but you would only see the x as an erase all button.

Looking at the SearchView's code I noticed that clicking the mSearchButton calls onSearchClicked() and not the suggested onActionViewExpanded(), but the former is a package private function so it can't be called directly. So I came up with this:

private val searchButton by lazy { searchView.findViewById<ImageView>(R.id.search_button) }


searchView.setOnClickListener { searchButton.callOnClick() }

This way you get the same behaviour no matter where you click and you don't need to manually set the iconified property in either the xml or programatically.

Answer 5

Use This

searchView.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener()
    {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v)
        {
            searchView.onActionViewExpanded();
            OR
            searchView.setIconified(false);
        }
    });

    searchView.setOnQueryTextFocusChangeListener(new View.OnFocusChangeListener()
    {
        @Override
        public void onFocusChange(View view, boolean b)
        {
            if(!b)
            {
                if(searchView.getQuery().toString().length() < 1)
                {
                    searchView.setIconified(true); //close the search editor and make search icon again
                    OR
                    searchView.onActionViewCollapsed();
                }

                searchView.clearFocus();

            }
        }
    });

Answer 6

What is the clickable mean? trigger search action or just make the edit area focused? If it is the first, you can just make the icon clickable=false. and make the whole layout clickable and implement a event listener.

<SearchView
android:id="@+id/search_bar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:clickable="true"
android:click="onClick"
android:layout_marginTop="7dp"
android:layout_marginLeft="7dp"
android:layout_marginRight="7dp"
android:layout_marginBottom="7dp"
android:background="@color/white" />

The onClick method should be

public void onClick(View v) {
　  InputMethodManager im = ((InputMethodManager) getSystemService(INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE));
    im.showSoftInput(editText, 0);
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