Searchview not showing in Toolbar

Question

I have actually a problem with my Searchview on the Support AppCompat v7 lib 24.0.0.

The SearchView is not shown up no text and input text (look screenshot)

The searchquery work perfect.

Thats my menu

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    tools:context=".MainActivity">
    <item
        android:title="@string/search"
        android:id="@+id/action_search"
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_search_24dp"
        app:showAsAction="ifRoom|collapseActionView"
        app:actionViewClass="android.support.v7.widget.SearchView"/>
</menu>

And here my onCreateOptionsMenu;

menu.clear();
        inflater.inflate(R.menu.menu_search, menu);
        MenuItem searchItem = menu.findItem(R.id.action_search);
        searchView = (SearchView) MenuItemCompat.getActionView(searchItem);
        searchView.setOnQueryTextListener(new SearchView.OnQueryTextListener() {
            @Override
            public boolean onQueryTextSubmit(String query) {
                //Perform the final search

                return false;
            }

            @Override
            public boolean onQueryTextChange(String newText) {
                //Text has changed, apply filtering?

                return false;
            }
        });

I hope someone can help me. :)

Sebastian

Answer 1

i have this problem too, i've changed Toolbar height to absolute value instead of wrap_content and problem solved. i don't know why but i think this issue is related to CoordinatorLayout and height of toolbar, something breaks the SearchView height. if i use LinearLayout instead of CoordinatorLayout and AppBarLayout it works.

menu.xml

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">
    <item
        android:id="@+id/action_search"
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_search_white_24dp"
        android:orderInCategory="100"
        android:title="@string/action_search"
        app:actionViewClass="android.support.v7.widget.SearchView"
        app:showAsAction="always|collapseActionView" />
</menu>

layout.xml

<android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">

    <android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:theme="@style/AppTheme.AppBarOverlay">

        <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
            android:id="@+id/toolbar"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="@dimen/toolbar_height"
            android:paddingTop="@dimen/toolbar_top_padding"
            android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
            app:title="@string/drawer_item_publisher_customization"
            app:layout_scrollFlags="scroll|enterAlways|snap"
            android:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar"
            app:popupTheme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light" />

        <android.support.design.widget.TabLayout
            android:id="@+id/tabLayout"
            app:tabGravity="fill"
            style="@style/DefaultTabLayout"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

    </android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout>

    <android.support.v4.view.ViewPager
        android:id="@+id/viewPager"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        app:layout_behavior="@string/appbar_scrolling_view_behavior" />

</android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout>

toolbar_height value:

<dimen name="toolbar_height">75dp</dimen>

Before absolute height value (layout_height:"wrap_content"):

After absolute height value (layout_height:"75dp"):

Answer 2

if you are using theme: .NoActionBar set this in your onCreate()

setSupportActionBar(toolbar);