Is it possible to expand SearchView without showing the keyboard

Question

I have SearchView in action bar. It expands when user clicks it and then keyboard appears. This is expected behavior. However, in my app there's one case when I expand SearchView programmatically.

MenuItem searchMenuItem = menu.findItem(R.id.action_search);
MenuItemCompat.expandActionView(searchMenuItem);

I don't want to show keyboard in this case. I expand SearchView programmatically just to show user what was the last search query.

So is it possible to open search view without showing the keyboard?

Answer 1

I resolve my problem using this:

@Override
    public void onPrepareOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        final SearchView searchView = (SearchView) MenuItemCompat.getActionView(menu.findItem(R.id.menu_search));
        if(!TextUtils.isEmpty(mSearch)){
            searchView.setQuery(mSearch, false);
            searchView.setIconified(false);
            searchView.clearFocus();
        }
    }

Let me know if this code resolve your problem.

Answer 2

I used below code to expand searchview without opening keyboard:

searchView.setFocusable(false);
searchView.setIconified(false);
searchView.clearFocus();

Hope this helps someone.