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TheLettuceMaster
TheLettuceMaster

Reputation: 15734

Styling a SearchView in Android Action Bar

I have a search widget in my Action Bar like this:

Search Widget in Action Bar

(1) How do I change the color of the text that says "iPhone"?

(2) Also, if you notice the gray X -- the entire Search Widget is that color as well when it is in an icon position. I am on Holo.Theme.Light and utilizing my own mods to it.

How do I change these two styles for the widget in my styles.xml file (assuming that is where you make the changes for a search widget)?

Upvotes: 36

Views: 57429

Answers (11)

Adidas
Adidas

Reputation: 501

I have been spending many time for this but finally: :-)

  1. To change the text color :
((EditText)searchView.findViewById(android.support.v7.appcompat.R.id.search_src_text)).setTextColor(Color.WHITE);

or this one for AndroidX:

((EditText)searchView.findViewById(androidx.appcompat.R.id.search_src_text)).setTextColor(Color.WHITE);
  1. To change the text hint:
((EditText)searchView.findViewById(android.support.v7.appcompat.R.id.search_src_text)).setHintTextColor(Color.WHITE);

or this one for AndroidX:

((EditText)searchView.findViewById(androidx.appcompat.R.id.search_src_text)).setHintTextColor(Color.WHITE);

Upvotes: 50

Ali Ziaee
Ali Ziaee

Reputation: 619

SearchView searchView = (SearchView) MenuItemCompat.getActionView(menu.findItem(R.id.search));
searchView.setSubmitButtonEnabled(true); // to enable submit button

ImageView b = (ImageView) searchView.findViewById(android.support.v7.appcompat.R.id.search_go_btn);
b.setImageResource(android.R.drawable.ic_menu_search); //to change submit button icon

TextView a=(TextView) searchView.findViewById(android.support.v7.appcompat.R.id.search_src_text);
a.setTextColor(...); //to change color of search text

Upvotes: 4

Jas
Jas

Reputation: 11

Get SearchView in your xxxActivity.java file and then:

SearchView searchView = (SearchView)menu.findItem(R.id.my_search_view).getActionView();
int searchPlateId = searchView.getContext().getResources().getIdentifier("android:id/search_plate", null, null);

// Getting the 'search_plate' LinearLayout.
View searchPlate = searchView.findViewById(searchPlateId);
searchPlate.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.textfield_searchview);

Create file res/drawable/texfield_searchview.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item android:state_focused="true"
        android:drawable="@drawable/textfield_search_selected_holo_light" />
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/textfield_search_default_holo_light" />
</selector>

Upvotes: 0

QAMAR
QAMAR

Reputation: 2694

As of Lollipop you can style search view like this from blog post http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2014/10/appcompat-v21-material-design-for-pre.html

values/themes.xml:
<style name=”Theme.MyTheme” parent=”Theme.AppCompat”>
    <item name=”searchViewStyle”>@style/MySearchViewStyle</item>
</style>
<style name=”MySearchViewStyle” parent=”Widget.AppCompat.SearchView”>
    <!-- Background for the search query section (e.g. EditText) -->
    <item name="queryBackground">...</item>
    <!-- Background for the actions section (e.g. voice, submit) -->
    <item name="submitBackground">...</item>
    <!-- Close button icon -->
    <item name="closeIcon">...</item>
    <!-- Search button icon -->
    <item name="searchIcon">...</item>
    <!-- Go/commit button icon -->
    <item name="goIcon">...</item>
    <!-- Voice search button icon -->
    <item name="voiceIcon">...</item>
    <!-- Commit icon shown in the query suggestion row -->
    <item name="commitIcon">...</item>
    <!-- Layout for query suggestion rows -->
    <item name="suggestionRowLayout">...</item>
</style>

Upvotes: 9

M.Raheel
M.Raheel

Reputation: 165

@Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {

        super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);

        // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);

        // Associate search configuration with the SearchView
        SearchManager searchManager =
               (SearchManager) getSystemService(Context.SEARCH_SERVICE);
        SearchView searchView =
                (SearchView) menu.findItem(R.id.search).getActionView();
        searchView.setQueryHint("Client/DOB/PPSN");
        searchView.setSearchableInfo(
                searchManager.getSearchableInfo(getComponentName()));

        // Setting the textview default behaviour properties
        int id = searchView.getContext().getResources().getIdentifier("android:id/search_src_text", null, null);
        TextView textView = (TextView) searchView.findViewById(id);
        textView.setTextColor(Color.WHITE);
        textView.setHintTextColor(Color.WHITE);

        // Set the search plate color to white
        int linlayId = getResources().getIdentifier("android:id/search_plate", null, null);
        View view = searchView.findViewById(linlayId);
        Drawable drawColor = getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.searchcolor);
        view.setBackground( drawColor );
        return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);

    }

Now this is the xml file searchcolor.xml for changing the plate color of search bar

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
  <item>
      <shape >
          <solid android:color="#ffffff" />
      </shape>
  </item>

  <!-- main color -->
  <item android:bottom="1.5dp"
      android:left="1.5dp"
      android:right="1.5dp">
      <shape >
          <solid android:color="#2c4d8e" />
      </shape>
  </item>

  <!-- draw another block to cut-off the left and right bars -->
  <item android:bottom="10.0dp">
      <shape >
          <solid android:color="#2c4d8e" />
      </shape>
  </item>
</layer-list>

and menu/menu.xml for creating the search in action bar

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
    <item android:id="@+id/search"
          android:icon="@drawable/search"
          android:showAsAction="ifRoom"
          android:actionViewClass="android.widget.SearchView" />

</menu>

Upvotes: 0

Mina Gabriel
Mina Gabriel

Reputation: 25080

in onCreateOptionsMenu :

int id = searchView.getContext()
                   .getResources()
                   .getIdentifier("android:id/search_src_text", null, null);
    TextView textView = (TextView) searchView.findViewById(id);
    textView.setTextColor(Color.WHITE);

Upvotes: 2

Mehdiway
Mehdiway

Reputation: 10646

If you want white text, you should extend from an Action Bar theme that has a black background like Holo.Theme or Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar if you're using the support library.
No other settings necessary.

Upvotes: 0

Abdul Rahman
Abdul Rahman

Reputation: 1843

If you're using appcompat library, then the solution is a bit different from Jerome's answer. Here's my solution

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu)
{
    getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main_menu, menu);
    restoreActionBar();

    SearchManager searchManager = (SearchManager) getSystemService(Context.SEARCH_SERVICE);
    MenuItem searchMenuItem = menu.findItem(R.id.action_search);
    SearchView searchView = (SearchView) MenuItemCompat.getActionView(searchMenuItem);
    searchView.setSearchableInfo(searchManager.getSearchableInfo(getComponentName()));

    SearchView.SearchAutoComplete searchAutoComplete = (SearchView.SearchAutoComplete)searchView.findViewById(android.support.v7.appcompat.R.id.search_src_text);
    searchAutoComplete.setHintTextColor(Color.WHITE);
    searchAutoComplete.setTextColor(Color.WHITE);

    View searchplate = (View)searchView.findViewById(android.support.v7.appcompat.R.id.search_plate);
    searchplate.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.texfield_searchview_holo_light);

    ImageView searchCloseIcon = (ImageView)searchView.findViewById(android.support.v7.appcompat.R.id.search_close_btn);
    searchCloseIcon.setImageResource(R.drawable.clear_search);

    ImageView voiceIcon = (ImageView)searchView.findViewById(android.support.v7.appcompat.R.id.search_voice_btn);
    voiceIcon.setImageResource(R.drawable.abc_ic_voice_search);

    ImageView searchIcon = (ImageView)searchView.findViewById(android.support.v7.appcompat.R.id.search_mag_icon);
    searchIcon.setImageResource(R.drawable.abc_ic_search);


    return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
}

Upvotes: 15

Jerome VDL
Jerome VDL

Reputation: 3526

You can change the style of the searchview. Here is some code I used to tweak the edittext, the voice icon...

SearchManager searchManager = (SearchManager) getSystemService(Context.SEARCH_SERVICE);

        SearchView searchView = (SearchView) menu.findItem(R.id.menu_search).getActionView();
        searchView.setSearchableInfo(searchManager.getSearchableInfo(getComponentName()));

        int searchPlateId = searchView.getContext().getResources().getIdentifier("android:id/search_plate", null, null);
        searchView.findViewById(searchPlateId).setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.textfield_search_selected);

        int voiceSearchPlateId = searchView.getContext().getResources().getIdentifier("android:id/submit_area", null, null);
        searchView.findViewById(voiceSearchPlateId).setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.textfield_search_right_selected);

        // change hint color
        int searchTextViewId = searchView.getContext().getResources().getIdentifier("android:id/search_src_text", null, null);
        TextView searchTextView = (TextView) searchView.findViewById(searchTextViewId);
        searchTextView.setHintTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.light_grey));

[edit] A more complete answer is available here : Changing the background drawable of the searchview widget

Upvotes: 13

lokoko
lokoko

Reputation: 5803

You would have to set 

searchView.setBackgroundColor(Color.WHITE);

SearchViews are not so customizable.

Upvotes: 9

TheLettuceMaster
TheLettuceMaster

Reputation: 15734

The way I solved this was by using Holo.Light.DarkActionBar theme. I don't believe you can easily change the search widget otherwise.

Upvotes: 3

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