SearchView.isFocused always returns false

Question

I'm trying to determine whether a SearchView in the ActionBar is focused. But when I call SearchView.isFocused() I always get false as a result, even when the view is really focused (there is a cursor inside, and the soft keyboard is shown).

How can I check, whether a SearchView is focused?

Answer 1

After some researching, I learned that SearchView.isFocused() always returns false because it's some child of the SearchView who really has the focus, not the SearchView itself. So I use the following code to check the focus of a SearchView:

private boolean checkFocusRec(View view) {
    if (view.isFocused())
        return true;

    if (view instanceof ViewGroup) {
        ViewGroup viewGroup = (ViewGroup) view;
        for (int i = 0; i < viewGroup.getChildCount(); i++) {
            if (checkFocusRec(viewGroup.getChildAt(i)))
                return true;
        }
    }
    return false;
}

So I call checkFocusRec(searchView) to check for the focus. I'm not sure this is the optimal solution but it works for me.