Android Searchview Icon

I want to disable the Mag icon displayed inside the search view component. Any idea how to reference it and remove it or replace it with another drawable ?

Solution 1:

Since the wording of the question does not contain any mention of ActionBarSherlock (except for the tag) and comments have been added that the accepted answer does not work for standard and/or support library action bar, I'm posting another answer. Here is the Java code for onCreate:

// obtain action barActionBaractionBar= getSupportActionBar();

// find SearchView (im my case it's in a custom layout because of left alignment)Viewv= actionBar.getCustomView();
SearchViewsearchView= (SearchView)v.findViewById(R.id.search_view);
ImageViewicon= (ImageView)searchView.findViewById(android.support.v7.appcompat.R.id.search_mag_icon);

// method 1: does not work persistently, because the next line// should be probably called after every manipulation with SearchView// icon.setVisibility(View.GONE);// method 2: working code
icon.setAdjustViewBounds(true);
icon.setMaxWidth(0);
icon.setLayoutParams(newLinearLayout.LayoutParams(LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT));
icon.setImageDrawable(null);

_{According to this post, while using a SearchView from the support library (android-support-v7-appcompat in my case) with setIconifiedByDefault(false) the icon is displayed outside edit textbox (SearchAutoComplete). Otherwise (setIconifiedByDefault(true)) it's displayed inside the box. The presented code is used for disabled "iconification" by default, and may require some changes to work with "iconified" search view. I don't know if the same applies to ActionBarSherlock.}

Hope this helps.

Solution 2:

This icon is hint. So you can simply set new hint text.

intsearchPlateId= searchView.getContext().getResources().getIdentifier("android:id/search_src_text", null, null);
    EditTextsearchPlate= (EditText) searchView.findViewById(searchPlateId);

    searchPlate.setHint("Search");

If you want icon as hint text use spanable string with ImageSpan

intsearchPlateId= searchView.getContext().getResources().getIdentifier("android:id/search_src_text", null, null);
    EditTextsearchPlate= (EditText) searchView.findViewById(searchPlateId);


    searchPlate.setTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.search_text_color));
    SpannableStringstring=newSpannableString(" ");
    Drawabled= getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.ic_search);
    d.setBounds(0, 0, d.getIntrinsicWidth(), d.getIntrinsicHeight());
    ImageSpanspan=newImageSpan(d, ImageSpan.ALIGN_BOTTOM);
    string.setSpan(span, 0, 1, Spannable.SPAN_INCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
    searchPlate.setHint(string);

Solution 3:

In your theme:

<stylename="Theme"parent="Your parent theme"><itemname="android:searchViewSearchIcon">@android:drawable/ic_search</item></style>

Edit:searchViewSearchIcon is a private attribute. This answer therefore does not work (on the native ActionBar).

Solution 4:

You have to add this line in your MenuItem android:iconifiedByDefault="@android:color/transparent"

<item
    android:id="@+id/activity_home_action_search"
    android:icon="@drawable/ic_action_search"
    android:title="@string/activity_home_search_title"
    android:iconifiedByDefault="@android:color/transparent"
    app:actionViewClass="android.support.v7.widget.SearchView"
    app:showAsAction="always|collapseActionView" />

Or you can make programatically searchView.setIconifiedByDefault(true);

@OverridepublicvoidonCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu, MenuInflater inflater) {
    super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu, inflater);
    getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.home, menu);

    MenuItemsearchMenuItem= menu.findItem(R.id.activity_home_action_search);

    SearchViewsearchView= (SearchView) searchMenuItem.getActionView();
    searchView.setIconifiedByDefault(true);
}

Solution 5:

To remove the hint search button:

mNearMeSearchBar = (SearchView) mView.findViewById(R.id.nearme_search_component_nearme_edittext);
mNearMeSearchBar.setIconifiedByDefault(false); //Removes Search Hint Icon

To change the search button drawable:

intsearchImgId= getResources().getIdentifier("android:id/search_mag_icon", null, null);
ImageViewv= (ImageView) mNearMeSearchBar.findViewById(searchImgId);
v.setImageResource(R.drawable.ic_compass);