SearchView and NavigationDrawer Android

Question

I'm trying to implement in my application, which is characterized by the navigation drawer, I would like to implement the search view. Unfortunately, I get a null value nell'oncreatemenu etc ...

I do not understand where I am attaching a wrong image, the log cat and source code. Thank you in advance, sincerely the same code but with no navigation drawer tabs dell'actionbar worked great. I do not understand, I tried searching on the internet but nothing ... Source code:

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
    inflater.inflate(R.menu.main_action, menu);
    MenuItem searchItem = menu.findItem(R.id.action_search);
    SearchView searchView = (SearchView) MenuItemCompat.getActionView(searchItem);
    searchView.setOnQueryTextListener(this);
    //searchView.setQueryHint("Inserisci qualcosa da cercare");
    return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
}

LogCat:

11-12 12:09:30.900 21373-21373/com.lillonet.megadownloaderpro E/﹕ Device driver API match Device driver API version: 23 User space API version: 23 11-12 12:09:30.900 21373-21373/com.lillonet.megadownloaderpro E/﹕ mali: REVISION=Linux-r3p2-01rel3 BUILD_DATE=Wed Oct 9 21:05:57 KST 2013 11-12 12:10:01.740 21373-21373/com.lillonet.megadownloaderpro E/AndroidRuntime﹕ FATAL EXCEPTION: main java.lang.NullPointerException at com.lillonet.megadownloaderpro.NavActivity.onCreateOptionsMenu(NavActivity.java:344) at android.app.Activity.onCreatePanelMenu(Activity.java:2578) at android.support.v4.app.FragmentActivity.onCreatePanelMenu(FragmentActivity.java:275) at android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity.superOnCreatePanelMenu(ActionBarActivity.java:276) at android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivityDelegate$1.onCreatePanelMenu(ActionBarActivityDelegate.java:79) at android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivityDelegateBase.preparePanel(ActionBarActivityDelegateBase.java:1056) at android.support.v7.app. ActionBarActivityDelegateBase.doInvalidatePanelMenu(ActionBarActivityDelegateBase.java:1259) at android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivityDelegateBase.access$100(ActionBarActivityDelegateBase.java:80) at android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivityDelegateBase$1.run(ActionBarActivityDelegateBase.java:119) at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:730) at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92) at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:176) at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5419) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:525) at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1046) at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:862) at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

XML CODE:

<item android:id="@+id/action_search"
android:icon="@android:drawable/ic_menu_search"
app:showAsAction="ifRoom"
android:title="Cerca"
android:actionViewClass="android.widget.SearchView" />

Answer 1

android.widget.SearchView should be android.support.v7.widget.SearchView instead and use app prefix too. Also you should use collapseActionView on `app:showAsAction

Like this:

<item android:id="@+id/action_search"
android:icon="@android:drawable/ic_menu_search"
app:showAsAction="collapseActionView"
android:title="Cerca"
app:actionViewClass="android.support.v7.widget.SearchView" />