how to handle back button of Search View in android

Question

SearchView searchView = (SearchView) MenuItemCompat.getActionView(menu.findItem(Menus.SEARCH));
searchView.setQueryHint(this.getString(R.string.search));
editSearch = (EditText) searchView.findViewById(android.support.v7.appcompat.R.id.search_src_text);
editSearch.setHintTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.white));
searchView.setOnQueryTextListener(OnQuerySearchView);


private OnQueryTextListener OnQuerySearchView = new OnQueryTextListener() {

    @Override
    public boolean onQueryTextSubmit(String newText) {
        if (TextUtils.isEmpty(newText)) {
            listAllContact.clearTextFilter();
        } else {
            listAllContact.setFilterText(newText.toString());
        }
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onQueryTextChange(String newText) {
        String text = editSearch.getText().toString()
                .toLowerCase(Locale.getDefault());
        adapter.filter(text);
        return true;
    }

};

Here is link exactly what you http://stackoverflow.com/a/25842354/1878148 — Narendra, Sep 15 '14 at 08:58

Atetc · Answer 1 · 2016-05-08T08:02:37.367

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If you use android.support.v7.widget.SearchView as menu item:

<menu
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">

    <item
        android:id="@+id/action_search"
        android:title=""
        app:showAsAction="ifRoom|collapseActionView"
        app:actionViewClass="android.support.v7.widget.SearchView"/>
</menu>

You can handle back button (for expanded state) with:

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu, menu);
    MenuItem searchItem = menu.findItem(R.id.action_search);
    searchItem.expandActionView();
    MenuItemCompat.setOnActionExpandListener(searchItem, new MenuItemCompat.OnActionExpandListener() {
        @Override
        public boolean onMenuItemActionExpand(MenuItem item) {
            return true;
        }

        @Override
        public boolean onMenuItemActionCollapse(MenuItem item) {
            // Write your code here
            return true;
        }
    });
}

edited May 08 '16 at 08:02

answered Apr 21 '15 at 21:02

Atetc

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Can you add a bit of explanation for your answer? – Joe Kennedy Apr 21 '15 at 21:21
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just put all return to TRUE or else they would not work. Worked and tested. thumbs up @Atetc – ralphgabb Mar 30 '16 at 05:56
correct answer. really weird for google detaching searchview onclose listener. even on 23+ API – Anfet Oct 17 '17 at 19:23
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This is deprecated method, use following: https://stackoverflow.com/a/48989340/4026686 – AndroidTank Mar 13 '19 at 20:09

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 22 '20 at 15:46

MenuItemCompat.setOnActionExpandListener is now deprecated

use

menu.findItem(R.id.action_search)setOnActionExpandListener(new MenuItem.OnActionExpandListener() {
    @Override
    public boolean onMenuItemActionExpand(MenuItem menuItem) {
        return false;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onMenuItemActionCollapse(MenuItem menuItem) {
        return false;
    }
});

instead

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 08 '19 at 04:25

If you are using search dialog you can do something like this for Kotlin

override fun onOptionsItemSelected(item: MenuItem): Boolean {
    val id = item.itemId

    return if (id == R.id.search_button) {
        val searchManager = this.getSystemService(Context.SEARCH_SERVICE) as SearchManager
        searchManager.setOnDismissListener {
            // return the activity to the normal state
        }
        // set activity to search state then request search
        onSearchRequested()
    } else super.onOptionsItemSelected(item)

}

score -3 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 15 '14 at 07:49

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Here is a way of doing it -

@Override
public void onBackPressed() {

    // Write your code here

    super.onBackPressed();
}

answered Sep 15 '14 at 07:49

Confuse

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Downvote? The question isn't clearly asked and from what I understood, the asker needs to find out how to handle action when back button is pressed and my solution exactly does that. – Confuse May 14 '15 at 15:07
you have a point. This is the worse asked question ever. Not a single detail about the problem... – IIRed-DeathII Jun 23 '16 at 14:14
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This is not the answer. The question is about search view's back arrow icon press. – Chanaka Fernando Oct 26 '17 at 10:21

how to handle back button of Search View in android

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