How to remove android searchview popup text while searching?

android, android-listview, android-search, search, searchview

Solution

Try this

first disable `TextFilterEnabled` on your `ListView`

yourListView.setTextFilterEnabled(false);

and filter your data like this:

android.widget.Filter filter = yourListAdapter.getFilter();


@Override
public boolean onQueryTextChange(String newText) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    filter.filter(newText);
    return true;
}

that's it, and the search popup gone like a charm

Problem

I have implemented action bar SearchView , it's working fine but at the bottom of the screen a floating text popup is shown. See screenshot: ListView Java class: ``` @Override public boolean onQueryTextChange(String newText) { if (TextUtils.isEmpty(newText)) { mListView.clearTextFilter(); } else { // EventAdapterView ca = (EventAdapterView)mListView.getAdapter(); // ca.getFilter().filter(newText.toString()); // Filter lFilter = mDataAdapter.getFilter(); // lFilter.filter(""); // following line was causing the ugly popup window. mListView.setFilterText(newText.toString()); // EventAdapterView ca = (EventAdapterView)mListView.getAdapter(); // ca.getFilter().filter(newText.toString()); } return true; } @Override public boolean onQueryTextSubmit(String query) { return true; } ``` Adapter class ``` @Override public Filter getFilter() { /** * A filter object which will filter message key * */ Filter filter = new Filter() { @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") @Override protected void publishResults(CharSequence constraint, FilterResults results) { mEventUtil = (List<EventUtil>) results.values; // has the // filtered // values notifyDataSetChanged(); // notifies the data with new filtered // values. Only filtered values will be // shown on the list } @Override protected FilterResults performFiltering(CharSequence constraint) { FilterResults results = new FilterResults(); // Holds the // results of a // filtering // operation for // publishing List<EventUtil> FilteredArrList = new ArrayList<EventUtil>(); if (mOriginalValues == null) { mOriginalValues = new ArrayList<EventUtil>(mEventUtil); // mOriginalValues } if (mListItem == null) { mListItem = new ArrayList<String>(); for (EventUtil message : mOriginalValues) { mListItem.add(message.getEvent_Title()); } } /** * * If constraint(CharSequence that is received) is null returns * the mOriginalValues(Original) values else does the Filtering * and returns FilteredArrList(Filtered) * **/ if (constraint == null || constraint.length() == 0) { /* * CONTRACT FOR IMPLEMENTING FILTER : set the Original * values to result which will be returned for publishing */ results.count = mOriginalValues.size(); results.values = mOriginalValues; } else { /* Do the filtering */ constraint = constraint.toString().toLowerCase(); for (int i = 0; i < mListItem.size(); i++) { String data = mListItem.get(i); if (data.toLowerCase().contains(constraint.toString())) { FilteredArrList.add(mOriginalValues.get(i)); } } // set the Filtered result to return results.count = FilteredArrList.size(); results.values = FilteredArrList; } return results; } }; return filter; } ``` How can I remove this floating TextView ?

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