How to completely collapse a SearchView after an item selected?

Question

I\'ve been struggling with this for weeks.. I have a global search that offers up a custom listview with suggestions as a user types. When a user selects an option, I want the s

Answer 1

I've changed the 'Go' button to 'Next', so the only method that worked for me (on API 19) is typing closeBtn.performClick(); closeBtn.performClick(); (Clicking 'close' button twice) in the OnEditorActionListener of the AutoCompleteTextView. You can get the AutoCompleteTextView like this:

LinearLayout linearLayout1 = (LinearLayout) searchView.getChildAt(0);
LinearLayout linearLayout2 = (LinearLayout) linearLayout1.getChildAt(2);
LinearLayout linearLayout3 = (LinearLayout) linearLayout2.getChildAt(1);
AutoCompleteTextView autoComplete = (AutoCompleteTextView) linearLayout3.getChildAt(0);

Answer 2

@sebastian that's not actually right.

I've been stucked at this issue for a while, but finally I've managed to handle it in the right way. You're suppose to call menuSearch.collapseActionView(); instead. This method will call onActionViewCollapsed, which you could override. So you don't call a listener ;)

MenuItem menuSearch = menu.findItem(R.id.itemSearch);
SearchView searchView = (SearchView) menuSearch.getActionView();
//Don't use next line
//searchView.onActionViewCollapsed();
menuSearch.collapseActionView();

Answer 3

This worked for me searchMenuItem.collapseActionView();

Answer 4

Returning false should have been sufficient based on the latest documentation and the source code iff iconifiedByDefault == true.

Did you by any chance define iconifiedByDefault="false" or called setIconifiedByDefault(false)?