Android SearchView filtered listview - how to remove query box?

Question

I have added a SearchView to an ActionBar which filters a ListView.

Everything works fine, the only problem is when I write a query in the SearchView, the query text also appears in a box in the middle of the screen in big fonts.

I guess it is some kind of query preview.. How do I cancel this? I couldn't find anything in the documentation.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Try to change the way you implement onQueryTextChange. I comment listview.clearTextFilter(); and change that for ca.getFilter().filter(null);

Here is the code I used

        @Override
        public boolean onQueryTextChange(String newText) {
            System.out.println("tap");
            yourAdapter ca = (yourAdapter)listview.getAdapter();

            if (TextUtils.isEmpty(newText)) {
                System.out.println("isEmpty");
                //listview.clearTextFilter();
                ca.getFilter().filter(null);
            } else {

                ca.getFilter().filter(newText);
                //listview.setFilterText(newText);

            }
            return true;
        }