Your problem is in your AndroidManifest. I had it almost exactly as you do, because that is what I get following the documentation. But it is unclear or mistaken. Watching at the API Demos source I found that the “android.app.searchable” metadata must go in your “results” activity, and in the main activity (or the activity … Read more
Intro Unfortunately there’s no way to set SearchView text field style using themes, styles and inheritance in XML as you can do with background of items in ActionBar dropdown. This is because selectableItemBackground is listed as styleable in R.stylable, whereas searchViewTextField (theme attribute that we’re interested in) is not. Thus, we cannot access it easily … Read more
It took a while to put together a solution for this, but have found this is the easiest way to get it to work in the way that you describe. There could be better ways to do this, but since you haven’t posted your activity code I will have to improvise and assume you have … Read more
Introduction Since it is not really clear from your question what exactly you are having trouble with, I wrote up this quick walkthrough about how to implement this feature; if you still have questions feel free to ask. I have a working example of everything I am talking about here in this GitHub Repository. In … Read more