Remove the SearchIcon as hint in the searchView

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I am doing an application where for example when i click on the image(it is a searchView) the search pad opens ! and it looks like but here the default search icon (magnifier) gets displayed but this dissappears as soon as some text is entered but i dont want that magnifier to be displayed even the image is clicked for the first time and here i am not using any xml file my code is ``` public class MainActivity extends Activity { @SuppressLint("NewApi") @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); RelativeLayout relative = new RelativeLayout(this); LayoutParams params = new LayoutParams(LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT,LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT); relative.setLayoutParams(params); setContentView(relative); SearchView searchView = new SearchView(this); traverseView(searchView, 0); // searchView.setIconifiedByDefault(false); LayoutParams searchViewparams = new LayoutParams(LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT,LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT); // searchViewpar…

Accepted Answer

I've had trouble with this too. I combined the tutorial I found and an existing answer found here in stackoverflow.

```
int magId = getResources().getIdentifier("android:id/search_mag_icon", null, null);
ImageView magImage = (ImageView) searchView.findViewById(magId);
magImage.setLayoutParams(new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(0, 0));
```

Take note that searchView is a LinearLayout, so use LinearLayout.LayoutParams to avoid an exception.

I also tried this but it doesn't remove the view. I can't seem to figure why.:

```
magImage.setVisibility(View.GONE);
```

For the other views that you need to change, refer to this tutorial.

Remove the SearchIcon as hint in the searchView

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