SearchView with OneClick to enter text

Question

In the android default search view, 2 clicks are required to input text for search as the first click is used to expand the editText view and another click is to set focus.

It seems to be q redundant and i want to reduce the process to one click only. Is there any methods to do this?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 02 '15 at 16:44

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You can change this behavior by calling

setIconifiedByDefault(false)

on your searchView. Setting it to false will show the whole field.

Documentation here.

answered Jun 02 '15 at 16:44

scottD

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:54

The two clicks happen if we put the searchView inside a ListView as the searchView lost focus after that. I suspect searchView behave a similar property with editText view in listView.

With reference to Edit Text in ListActivity ListView loses focus when keyboard comes up

and add the following codes in searchView xml android:focusable="true" android:focusableInTouchMode="true"

would get back the normal behavior of the searchView. Hope this will be useful to other people in the future.

SearchView with OneClick to enter text

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