searchView setQuery does not work

Question

I am using the Search interface in andriod, and folowing the android guide I have set up the the interface.

I create a SearchableActivity which will handle both the user input the search result.

Now I meet a problem in that when user input something in the SearchView and hit the search key, the Search requset will be submited, then I will receive the query string and do the search, but at this moment, the text in the SearchView was changed to the default SearchHit value while I want it to be the query string.

So I tried to use the searchView.setQuery(query, false);, but it does not work, what's the problem?

The core Activity codes:

public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {     super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);     setContentView(R.layout.map_activity_layout);      Log.d("map", "create");     handleIntent(getIntent()); }  public void onNewIntent(Intent intent) {     setIntent(intent);     handleIntent(intent); }  private void handleIntent(Intent intent) {     Log.d("map", "handleIntent");     if (Intent.ACTION_SEARCH.equals(intent.getAction())) {         String query = intent.getStringExtra(SearchManager.QUERY);         //try search         Log.d("map", "search and set query:" + query);         searchView.setQuery(query, false); // reset the value in of the SearchView     } } 

The AndroidManifest.xml:

    <activity         android:name=".ui.MapActivity"         android:launchMode="singleTop">         <intent-filter>             <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />             <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />             <action android:name="android.intent.action.SEARCH" />         </intent-filter>         <meta-data             android:name="android.app.searchable"             android:resource="@xml/searchable" />     </activity> 

Answer 1

I suggest you to delay the setting until the next event loop (add it to the message queue), so the code may looks like this:

private void handleIntent(Intent intent) {     if (Intent.ACTION_SEARCH.equals(intent.getAction())) {         final String query = intent.getStringExtra(SearchManager.QUERY);         searchView.post(new Runnable() {              @Override             public void run() {                 // Important! Make sure searchView has been initialized                 // and referenced to the correct (current) SearchView.                 // Config changes (e.g. screen rotation) may make the                 // variable value null.                 searchView.setQuery(query, false);             }         };     } } 

Answer 2

This doesn't work

    mSearchView.setQuery(mKeyword, true);     MenuItemCompat.expandActionView(mMenuSearch); 

This does

    MenuItemCompat.expandActionView(mMenuSearch);     mSearchView.setQuery(mKeyword, true); 

It seems it only remembers it after you expanded the action view. I'm using MenuItemCompat just for backwards compatibility