Make SearchView text entry disabled?

Question

I was wondering if there was a way to temporarily make it so that SearchView temporarily cannot be used to type in but still seen. I'd rather do this than recreate different actionbars over and over for the same activity.

UPDATE: neither answer worked here is stacktrace:

05-08 18:51:38.981  18963-18963/com.parse.starter W/ResourceType﹕ No package identifier when getting value for resource number 0x00000001
05-08 18:51:38.989  18963-18963/com.parse.starter W/ImageView﹕ Unable to find resource: 1
android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException: Resource ID #0x1
        at android.content.res.Resources.getValue(Resources.java:1019)
        at android.content.res.Resources.getDrawable(Resources.java:663)
        at android.widget.ImageView.resolveUri(ImageView.java:542)
        at android.widget.ImageView.onMeasure(ImageView.java:647)
        at android.view.View.measure(View.java:12752)
        at android.widget.RelativeLayout.measureChild(RelativeLayout.java:579)
        at android.widget.RelativeLayout.onMeasure(RelativeLayout.java:392)
        at android.view.View.measure(View.java:12752)
        at android.widget.ListView.measureScrapChild(ListView.java:1181)
        at android.widget.ListView.measureHeightOfChildren(ListView.java:1246)
        at android.widget.ListView.onMeasure(ListView.java:1155)
        at android.view.View.measure(View.java:12752)
        at android.widget.RelativeLayout.measureChildHorizontal(RelativeLayout.java:594)
        at android.widget.RelativeLayout.onMeasure(RelativeLayout.java:376)
        at android.view.View.measure(View.java:12752)
        at android.view.ViewGroup.measureChildWithMargins(ViewGroup.java:4698)
        at android.widget.FrameLayout.onMeasure(FrameLayout.java:293)
        at android.view.View.measure(View.java:12752)
        at android.widget.RelativeLayout.measureChild(RelativeLayout.java:579)
        at android.widget.RelativeLayout.onMeasure(RelativeLayout.java:392)
        at android.view.View.measure(View.java:12752)
        at android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout.onMeasure(DrawerLayout.java:848)
        at android.view.View.measure(View.java:12752)
        at android.view.ViewGroup.measureChildWithMargins(ViewGroup.java:4698)
        at android.widget.FrameLayout.onMeasure(FrameLayout.java:293)
        at android.view.View.measure(View.java:12752)
        at android.widget.LinearLayout.measureVertical(LinearLayout.java:812)
        at android.widget.LinearLayout.onMeasure(LinearLayout.java:553)
        at android.view.View.measure(View.java:12752)
        at android.view.ViewGroup.measureChildWithMargins(ViewGroup.java:4698)
        at android.widget.FrameLayout.onMeasure(FrameLayout.java:293)
        at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow$DecorView.onMeasure(PhoneWindow.java:2267)
        at android.view.View.measure(View.java:12752)
        at android.view.ViewRootImpl.performTraversals(ViewRootImpl.java:1074)
        at android.view.ViewRootImpl.handleMessage(ViewRootImpl.java:2462)
        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4558)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:784)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:551)
        at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

Answer 1

you can easily enable and disable your menu items in onCreateOptionsMenu. Just simply get your searchView and put setEnabled(false), like this:

MenuItem item= menu.findItem(R.id.action_search);
item.setEnabled(false);

I hope this will help you.