How to create a Edittext in action bar in android?

Question

Can we use an edit text in action bar? After reading lot of resources in Google i could not find how to create an edit text in action bar. Can anyone tell me how do i do it?

Answer 1

You can set a custom View for the ActionBar like this:

getActionBar().setCustomView(R.layout.custom_actionbar);

You can then find Views from the custom View in the ActionBar like this:

View actionBarView = getActionBar().getCustomView();
EditText editText = (EditText) acitonBarView.findViewById(R.id.editText);

Or you can just directly set a View instance as custom View like this:

EditText editText = new EditText(context);
getActionBar().setCustomView(editText);

Answer 2

Try this::

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