Android how to focus ActionBar searchView

android, android-widget

Solution

Try using `searchView.setIconified(false)`. This worked for me:

public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.main);
    ActionBar actionBar = getActionBar();
    SearchView searchView = new SearchView(this);
    actionBar.setCustomView(searchView);
    actionBar.setDisplayOptions(ActionBar.DISPLAY_SHOW_CUSTOM);
    searchView.setQuery("test",true);
    searchView.setFocusable(true);
    searchView.setIconified(false);
    searchView.requestFocusFromTouch();
}

Problem

Hello i need to put some text inside the searchView and focus/expand the searchView widget. this is what i tried but it doesn't work ``` @Override public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(final Menu menu) { ... SearchView searchView = (SearchView) menu.findItem(R.id.menu_search).getActionView(); searchView.setQuery(this.filtro, false); searchView.setFocusable(true); searchView.requestFocus(); searchView.requestFocusFromTouch(); ```

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