How to implement Searchview in the layout in Android

Question

I am trying to implement a searchView in the layout file just like other Views rather than on toolbar. Before I was using AutoCompleteTextView but now I wanted to implement SearchView. If anyone knows please help.

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Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Well there are lot of examples you can find. The best solution provided here:

Creating a SearchView that looks like the material design guidelines

Also there are libraries available,the easiest library to implement is

https://github.com/Quinny898/PersistentSearch