Expand and give focus to SearchView automatically

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I'm developing an application where the user presses the "Search" icon in the ActionBar and a SearchView is made visible at the top of the screen.

My problem is that the SearchView is not in focus nor expanded so the user has to press the search button on the Searchview to make it expand and bring out the keyboard.

How should this be solved?

expand search focus android
18 Answers

If you're using it in layout, you can call

mSearchView.onActionViewExpanded()

user_9862160

Kotlin

var searchView = menu.findItem(R.id.action_search).actionView as SearchView
searchView.isIconified = true
user_113673300

Call expandActionView() on the menuItem.

menuItem.expandActionView()
user_112574340

I was having a hard time doing this with SearchView widget, but the expandActionView() method is actually defined in the MenuItem class, not SearchView class. So, I solved it by

        MenuItem searchItem = menu.findItem(R.id.item_search);
        SearchView   searchView = (SearchView) searchItem.getActionView();
        searchItem.expandActionView();//the method expandActionView is called on searchItem not searchView
user_104031330 

 <item
        android:id="@+id/search"
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_search"
        android:title="Search"
        app:actionViewClass="androidx.appcompat.widget.SearchView"
        app:showAsAction="always"/>

 public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.search_menu, menu);
        // Associate searchable configuration with the SearchView
        SearchManager searchManager = (SearchManager) getSystemService(Context.SEARCH_SERVICE);
        searchView = (SearchView) menu.findItem(R.id.search).getActionView();
        searchView.setQueryHint("Search the customer...");
        searchView.setSearchableInfo(Objects.requireNonNull(searchManager).getSearchableInfo(getComponentName()));
        searchView.setMaxWidth(Integer.MAX_VALUE);
        searchView.setIconifiedByDefault(false);
        searchView.requestFocus();

    }

<pre>

 <item
        android:id="@+id/search"
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_search"
        android:title="Search"
        app:actionViewClass="androidx.appcompat.widget.SearchView"
        app:showAsAction="always"/>

 public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.search_menu, menu);
        // Associate searchable configuration with the SearchView
        SearchManager searchManager = (SearchManager) getSystemService(Context.SEARCH_SERVICE);
        searchView = (SearchView) menu.findItem(R.id.search).getActionView();
        searchView.setQueryHint("Search the customer...");
        searchView.setSearchableInfo(Objects.requireNonNull(searchManager).getSearchableInfo(getComponentName()));
        searchView.setMaxWidth(Integer.MAX_VALUE);
        searchView.setIconifiedByDefault(false);
        searchView.requestFocus();

    }

</pre>

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