ActionbarSherlock SearchView in menu.xml gives Resources$NotFoundException
actionbarsherlock, android
Solution
`SearchView` in `ActionbarSherlock` is / was a known issue. The `dev` branch contains the support, however it is not complete and seems they are still having issues with Suggestions.
See github here and here for reference.
Here is a link to the `ActionBarSherlock` > `SearchView` Source
Problem
When I try to add an ActionbarSherlock `SearchView` to my ActionBar the application crashes as soon as the activity should be shown. As reason for this, I found the following in LogCat: ``` 10-22 21:22:51.070: W/MenuInflater(21873): Cannot instantiate class: com.actionbarsherlock.widget.SearchView ... 10-22 21:22:51.070: W/MenuInflater(21873): Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException 10-22 21:22:51.070: W/MenuInflater(21873): at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.constructNative(Native Method) 10-22 21:22:51.070: W/MenuInflater(21873): at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:417) 10-22 21:22:51.070: W/MenuInflater(21873): at android.view.LayoutInflater.createView(LayoutInflater.java:587) 10-22 21:22:51.070: W/MenuInflater(21873): ... 32 more 10-22 21:22:51.070: W/MenuInflater(21873): Caused by: android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException: Resource is not a ColorStateList (color or path): TypedValue{t=0x2/d=0x7f01001f a=-1} 10-22 21:22:51.070: W/MenuInflater(21873): at android.content.res.Resources.loadColorStateList(Resources.java:2035) 10-22 21:22:51.070: W/MenuInflater(21873): at android.content.res.TypedArray.getColorStateList(TypedArray.java:342) 10-22 21:22:51.070: W/MenuInflater(21873): at android.widget.TextView.<init>(TextView.java:768) 10-22 21:22:51.070: W/MenuInflater(21873): at android.widget.TextView.<init>(TextView.java:442) ``` When I use the regular `android.widget.SearchView` for the `android:actionViewClass` everything works fine. I followed the tutorial from the Android website. This is my menu xml ``` <menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"> <item android:id="@+id/menu_search" android:actionViewClass="com.actionbarsherlock.widget.SearchView" android:icon="@drawable/ic_action_search" android:showAsAction="ifRoom|collapseActionView" android:title="@string/menu_search"/> <item android:id="@+id/menu_add_page" android:title="@string/menu_add_page" android:icon="@drawable/ic_action_add" android:showAsAction="always" /> <item android:id="@+id/menu_settings" android:title="@string/menu_settings" android:showAsAction="never" /> </menu> ``` And this is the relevant code: ``` public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) { getSupportMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.activity_overview, menu); // Get the SearchView and set the searchable configuration SearchManager searchManager = (SearchManager) getSystemService(Context.SEARCH_SERVICE); SearchView searchView = (SearchView) menu.findItem(R.id.menu_search).getActionView(); searchView.setSearchableInfo(searchManager.getSearchableInfo(getComponentName())); return true; } ``` Is this a (known) bug, or am I missing something else here?