Android Custom ActionBar with Search View

Question

I am using custom ActionBar library in my Android App. there i want to show a searchView but can not find any solution, i m working in library that is
https://github.co

Answer 1

Take a look at this answer. According to this answer SearchView is available support library. add dependency to build.gradle

compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:22.0.0'

and make imports

import android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity; import android.support.v7.widget.SearchView;

According to this answer it worked on API 8 on emulator. For more details, check the link with the question and answer itself. Hope it helps.

UPDATE

By adding this code

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:hmkcode="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">
<item
    android:id="@+id/action_search"
    android:orderInCategory="100"
    hmkcode:showAsAction="always"
    android:icon="@drawable/ic_action_search"
    android:title="Search"/>
<item
    android:id="@+id/action_copy"
    android:orderInCategory="100"
    hmkcode:showAsAction="always"
    android:icon="@drawable/ic_content_copy"
    android:title="Copy"/>
<item
    android:id="@+id/action_share"
    android:orderInCategory="100"
    hmkcode:showAsAction="always"
    android:icon="@drawable/ic_social_share"
    android:title="Share"/>

you can achieve this:

You can customize items in the way you want. For more details see this example.