Android - Make whole search bar clickable

Question

I am using a search-view element in my fragment to implement search feature.

<SearchView     android:id="@+id/search_bar"     android:layout_width="match_parent"     android:layout_height="match_parent"     android:layout_marginTop="7dp"     android:layout_marginLeft="7dp"     android:layout_marginRight="7dp"     android:layout_marginBottom="7dp"     android:background="@color/white" /> 

The problem is only the search icon is clickable other area in the search bar is not clickable, when i click the icon only i can able to search.

Can you please help me to make the whole search area clickable.

Answer 1

This can be simply done by setting Iconified to false on OnClick of SearchView.

searchBar.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {     @Override     public void onClick(View v) {         searchBar.setIconified(false);     } }); 

Reference: Eric Lui's answer

Hopefully it will help.

UPDATE:

You can also use it directly in your XML

app:iconifiedByDefault="false" 

Answer 2

search_bar.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {     @Override     public void onClick(View v) {         search_bar.onActionViewExpanded();     } });