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thug-gamer
thug-gamer

Reputation: 355

android - softkeyboard keeps hiding after expanding Searchview programmatically (w/ Search Button)

I am using SearchView from Support Library in my Appcombat Actionbar. On emulator it all works as intended. I can open it by clicking the menu item or using the Search Button on the device and the keyboard is shown.

@Override
public boolean onKeyDown(int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
    if(keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_SEARCH) {
        if(!MenuItemCompat.isActionViewExpanded(searchItem)) {
            MenuItemCompat.expandActionView(searchItem);
        } else MenuItemCompat.collapseActionView(searchItem);
    }
    return super.onKeyDown(keyCode, event);
}

On Expanding I set a saved text.

MenuItemCompat.setOnActionExpandListener(searchItem, new MenuItemCompat.OnActionExpandListener(){

        @Override
        public boolean onMenuItemActionCollapse(MenuItem item) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            return true;
        }

        @Override
        public boolean onMenuItemActionExpand(MenuItem item) {
            searchView.onActionViewExpanded(); // to initialize searchview
            searchView.setQuery(searchText, false);
            searchView.requestFocus();
            return true;
        }

    });

Problem:

On my hardware device (HTC Desire HD, Android 2.3), when I press the device's Search Button the searchview expands and the softkeyboard shows for a part of a second and hides again. Clicking the MenuItem works fine and shows the keyboard as intended. There seems to be a method hiding the keyboard again after focusing the searchview. I already tried several stuff (setOnQueryTextFocusChangeListener with manually showing softInput) but none seem to work on my device.

I hope someone got a solution. Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 517

Answers (1)

Sandeep Solanki
Sandeep Solanki

Reputation: 51

It looks like your searchView has lost focus after setting the searchText. try adding this before calling requestFocus.

searchView.setFocusable(true);

Upvotes: 1

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