Remove the space of the search icon in the SearchView

Question

I'd like to get rid of the search icon in SearchView

I've tried:

setIconified(false);
Adding <item name="searchHintIcon">@null</item> to the SearchView style.

And none of these worked, any clue?

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score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 18 '18 at 12:15

It would be good to see your code in order to help but adding these to your XML will help if you are using android.widget.SearchView in a recent API level (i.e. 21 or higher):

android:iconifiedByDefault="false"
android:searchIcon="@null"
android:searchHintIcon="@null"

Remove the space of the search icon in the SearchView

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