How to remove searchView Icon?

Question

I have simple SearchView androidx.appcompat.widget.SearchView not android.support.v7.widget.SearchView .

I want to remove SearchView icon when its on focus QueryTextFocusChangeListener .

After I google it, I found two solutions which is for android.support.v7.widget.SearchView .

1. This one I cannot find R.id.search_mag_icon , so it didn't work.

   SearchView searchView = (SearchView)searchViewItem.getActionView(); searchView.findViewById(R.id.search_mag_icon).setVisibility(View.GONE);

2. Setting app:searchIcon="@null" makes icon gone, but its gone at the beginning. I want to remove icon only when its on focus. I tried set searchIcon="@null" programmatically but I cannot find it.

   app:searchIcon="@null"

Again, I'm using androidx.appcompat.widget.SearchView . Please help me. I spent long time but still

suffering.

Answer 1

I don't think it can be done programmatically. Check out mSearchHintIcon in SearchView.java (android source). It is private.

Try 'app:searchHintIcon':

    <androidx.appcompat.widget.SearchView
      android:id="@+id/main_sv"
      app:searchHintIcon="@drawable/blank_placeholder_drawable"
      android:layout_width="match_parent"
      android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>

Or you can also change android:tint="#fafafa" to any placeholder drawable to match the background color.

Answer 2

In case you are using AppCompat use

    app:iconifiedByDefault="false"
    app:searchIcon="@null"

Else use android in place of app in above code as

android:iconifiedByDefault="false"
android:searchIcon="@null"

Answer 3

Try this with your SearchView :

searchView.setIconifiedByDefault(false);