Android SearchView not showing text when typing

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I realized SearchView like Google says:

Created searchable.xml in res/xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<searchable xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:label="@string/app_name"
    android:hint="Search"
    android:voiceSearchMode="showVoiceSearchButton|launchRecognizer" />

Created menu item in res/menu/second_activity_menu:

<item
    android:id="@+id/second_toolbar_search"
    android:icon="@mipmap/ic_search_black_24dp"
    android:orderInCategory="100"
    android:title="@string/search"
    app:showAsAction="collapseActionView|ifRoom"
    app:actionViewClass="android.support.v7.widget.SearchView" />

Change my AndroidManifest:

<activity android:name=".SecondActivity">
    <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.SEARCH" />
    </intent-filter>
    <meta-data
        android:name="android.app.searchable"
        android:resource="@xml/searchable" />
</activity>

And realized my SecondActivity class which extends AppCompatActivity:

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
    inflater.inflate(R.menu.second_activity_menu, menu);

    SearchManager searchManager = (SearchManager) getSystemService(Context.SEARCH_SERVICE);
    SearchView searchView = (SearchView) menu.findItem(R.id.second_toolbar_search).getActionView();

    searchView.setSearchableInfo(searchManager.getSearchableInfo(getComponentName()));
    searchView.setIconifiedByDefault(false);
    return true;
}

As a result I have this:

After clicling on the search icon I have this:

When I start typing something, it doesn't show and it doesn't show "clear" icon and mic icon either. But I added them in searchable.xml.

Thanks for any ideas or code.

ADD: maybe the reason is with toolbar style?

ADD 2: toolbar, but I don't think that it is nessesary

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
        android:id="@+id/toolbar"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
        local:theme="@style/AppTheme" />

Did you check the text color? It might be white. You need to change the text color to black. — Reaz Masud
– Reaz Masud, Commented Aug 30, 2016 at 10:13
@AlexBoyko try my answer and please let me know if that helped. — Reaz Masud
– Reaz Masud, Commented Aug 30, 2016 at 10:25

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:08:59Z

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Give a toolbar any explicit layout_height:

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
    ...
    android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
    ...
/>

P.S. I found this answer here and voted to close this question as duplicate.

edited May 23, 2017 at 12:08

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answered Sep 1, 2016 at 14:43

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Reaz Masud · Accepted Answer · 2016-08-30 10:24:52Z

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As far as I can guess, you have your SearchView working perfectly, but its not visible as the icons and the text colour is white. So I would like to tell you about how you can change the icon and text colours of your SearchView.

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu)
{
    MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
    inflater.inflate(R.menu.second_activity_menu, menu);

    SearchManager searchManager = (SearchManager) getSystemService(Context.SEARCH_SERVICE);
    MenuItem searchMenuItem = menu.findItem(R.id.action_search);
    SearchView searchView = (SearchView) MenuItemCompat.getActionView(searchMenuItem);
    searchView.setSearchableInfo(searchManager.getSearchableInfo(getComponentName()));

    // Set text colour 
    SearchView.SearchAutoComplete searchAutoComplete = (SearchView.SearchAutoComplete)searchView.findViewById(android.support.v7.appcompat.R.id.search_src_text);
    searchAutoComplete.setHintTextColor(Color.WHITE);
    searchAutoComplete.setTextColor(Color.WHITE);

    View searchplate = (View)searchView.findViewById(android.support.v7.appcompat.R.id.search_plate);
    searchplate.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.texfield_searchview_holo_light);
    // Clear search or close icon
    ImageView searchCloseIcon = (ImageView)searchView.findViewById(android.support.v7.appcompat.R.id.search_close_btn);
    searchCloseIcon.setImageResource(R.drawable.clear_search);

    // Voice icon
    ImageView voiceIcon = (ImageView)searchView.findViewById(android.support.v7.appcompat.R.id.search_voice_btn);
    voiceIcon.setImageResource(R.drawable.abc_ic_voice_search);

    // Search icon
    ImageView searchIcon = (ImageView)searchView.findViewById(android.support.v7.appcompat.R.id.search_mag_icon);
    searchIcon.setImageResource(R.drawable.abc_ic_search);

    return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
}

You hard to customize the SearchView from xml. So follow the programmed solution instead.

answered Aug 30, 2016 at 10:24

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Alex Boyko Over a year ago

maybe problem with toolbar? maybe I should use different style or use ActionBar. I don't know what's the matter

Reaz Masud Over a year ago

You can change the color of the Toolbar too to see what happens. The idea is to make the contrast.

Alex Boyko Over a year ago

changed to black. then I typing text, there's nothing happen in SearchView. and there's no voice icon too

Mauricio Ramalho Custodio · Accepted Answer · 2018-06-19 22:49:11Z

This might not be the case, but in my case there was some other View that was removing the focus from SearchView right after clicking on the search icon, which gave me the same result as your second image.

 override fun onCreateOptionsMenu(menu: Menu): Boolean {
    menuInflater.inflate(R.menu.activity_main, menu)
    val searchItem = menu.findItem(R.id.action_search)
    val searchView = searchItem.actionView as? SearchView
    searchView?.setOnFocusChangeListener { _, _ ->
        // My ScrollView was requesting focus
    }
    return true
}

Strangely enough this opens a perfectly working virtual keyboard - with input feedback sound and everything - but all that was typed with it doesn't show anywhere on the screen. Even searchView.setOnQueryTextListener() isn't triggered by the input, meaning that the typed text goes to some void and is not used at all.

Using searchView.requestFocus() after all Views were done with their focuses worked for me.

Boris Laskov · Accepted Answer · 2018-11-14 13:47:52Z

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I had the same problem, the solution in my case was to set

searchView.setMaxWidth(Integer.MAX_VALUE);

answered Nov 14, 2018 at 13:47

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Zakhar Rodionov · Accepted Answer · 2019-05-21 13:06:09Z

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    searchView.setOnTouchListener { v, event ->
        if (event.action == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP){
            searchView.isIconified = false
        }
        false
    }

    searchView.setOnClickListener {
        searchView.isIconified = false
    }

answered May 21, 2019 at 13:06

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