Implementing the SearchView without the use of the menu.xml
file and open through button
In your Activity
we need to use the method of the onCreateOptionsMenu
method in which we will programmatically inflate the SearchView
private MenuItem searchMenu;
private String mSearchString="";
@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
SearchManager searchManager = (SearchManager) StoreActivity.this.getSystemService(Context.SEARCH_SERVICE);
SearchView mSearchView = new SearchView(getSupportActionBar().getThemedContext());
mSearchView.setQueryHint(getString(R.string.prompt_search)); /// YOUR HINT MESSAGE
mSearchView.setMaxWidth(Integer.MAX_VALUE);
searchMenu = menu.add("searchMenu").setVisible(false).setActionView(mSearchView);
searchMenu.setShowAsAction(MenuItem.SHOW_AS_ACTION_IF_ROOM | MenuItem.SHOW_AS_ACTION_COLLAPSE_ACTION_VIEW);
assert searchManager != null;
mSearchView.setSearchableInfo(searchManager.getSearchableInfo(getComponentName()));
mSearchView.setIconifiedByDefault(false);
SearchView.OnQueryTextListener queryTextListener = new SearchView.OnQueryTextListener() {
public boolean onQueryTextChange(String newText) {
mSearchString = newText;
return true;
}
public boolean onQueryTextSubmit(String query) {
mSearchString = query;
searchMenu.collapseActionView();
return true;
}
};
mSearchView.setOnQueryTextListener(queryTextListener);
return true;
}
And in your Activity class, you can open the SearchView
on any button click on toolbar like below
YOUR_BUTTON.setOnClickListener(view -> {
searchMenu.expandActionView();
});