Resetting Search Widget (SearchView) value
android, android-widget, java, kotlin
Solution
You might also try the following:
searchView.setQuery("", false);
searchView.clearFocus();
Problem
I've got 2 activites : the first, `HomepageActiviy`, have a search widget that search data using another activity, `SearchActivity`. What I want to do is when I go back from `SearchActiviy` to `HomepageActivity`, the search widget go collapsed and with a empty text. I've tried to do this following thing : ``` public class HomepageActivity extends Activity { @TargetApi(11) @Override public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) { MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater(); inflater.inflate(R.menu.projectslist, menu); if(Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 11) { SearchManager searchManager = (SearchManager) getSystemService(Context.SEARCH_SERVICE); SearchView searchView = (SearchView) menu.findItem(R.id.homepage_search).getActionView(); ComponentName component = new ComponentName(this, SearchActivity.class); searchView.setSearchableInfo(searchManager.getSearchableInfo(component)); searchView.setIconifiedByDefault(true); searchView.setQuery("", false); } return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu); } […] @TargetApi(11) @Override protected void onRestart() { super.onRestart(); if(Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 11) invalidateOptionsMenu(); launchAsynchronousImageDownload(); } } ``` If the widget is well displayed as collapsed, the text in the widget still remember searched text (after I re-open the widget). How can I reset the text of the widget? Thanks for any help! ;)