Disable Long Click on SearchView EditText

Question

I have a SearchView on my Toolbar. I works perfectly and I have no problem with it.

But the problem arises whenever I write some search term on the EditText of the SearchView and long-click on the text, the toolbar transforms into a contextual menu with paste, copy, etc options.

This also happened in other EditTexts of my app, but I solved it using

android:longClickable="false"

This entirely disables long-click event on the EditTexts and the context menu never appears. This is the behavior I want.

But how can I do the same for the SearchView? I tried to disable long-click on the SearchView but that doesn't work.

How can I reference the EditText of the SearchView and then disable the long-click event? Or is there any other better approach?

can you post your code of how you're using `SearchView` in `ToolBar` ? — Sharp Edge, Aug 24 '15 at 05:13
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6275299/how-to-disable-copy-paste-from-to-edittext — Anitha Manikandan, Aug 24 '15 at 05:16

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 24 '15 at 06:01

This is how I solved it.

    @Override
    public void onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu, MenuInflater inflater) {
        super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu, inflater);

        SearchManager searchManager = (SearchManager) getActivity().getSystemService(Context.SEARCH_SERVICE);
        searchView = (SearchView) menu.findItem(R.id.search).getActionView();
        searchView.setSearchableInfo(searchManager.getSearchableInfo(getActivity().getComponentName()));
        searchView.setIconifiedByDefault(true);
        searchView.setQueryHint(getActivity().getString(R.string.search_files_hint));

        search = menu.findItem(R.id.search);

        MenuItemCompat.setOnActionExpandListener(search,
                new MenuItemCompat.OnActionExpandListener() {
                    @Override
                    public boolean onMenuItemActionCollapse(MenuItem item) {
                        return true; // Return true to collapse action view
                    }

                    @Override
                    public boolean onMenuItemActionExpand(MenuItem item) {

                        // Disabling long-click on the SearchView to remove the CAB glitch
                        TextView searchText = (TextView) searchView.findViewById(android.support.v7.appcompat.R.id.search_src_text);
                        if(searchText != null){
                            searchText.setLongClickable(false);
                        }

                        return true; // Return true to expand action view
                    }
                });

    }

The SearchView is not a simple View, rather a compound View consisting of a lot of Views.

On investigating further, I found that it has a SearchAutoComplete view which indirectly inherits from the EditText.

So, I just found a reference for it and if its not NULL then I setLongClickable to false.

But the trick here is to use it only when the SearchView is expanded, otherwise the SearchAutoComplete view is never inflated and is always null.

Disable Long Click on SearchView EditText

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