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Android - Make whole search bar clickable

I am using a search-view element in my fragment to implement search feature.

<SearchView
    android:id="@+id/search_bar"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:layout_marginTop="7dp"
    android:layout_marginLeft="7dp"
    android:layout_marginRight="7dp"
    android:layout_marginBottom="7dp"
    android:background="@color/white" />

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The problem is only the search icon is clickable other area in the search bar is not clickable, when i click the icon only i can able to search.

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Can you please help me to make the whole search area clickable.

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Solution

  • What is the clickable mean? trigger search action or just make the edit area focused? If it is the first, you can just make the icon clickable=false. and make the whole layout clickable and implement a event listener.

    <SearchView
android:id="@+id/search_bar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:clickable="true"
android:click="onClick"
android:layout_marginTop="7dp"
android:layout_marginLeft="7dp"
android:layout_marginRight="7dp"
android:layout_marginBottom="7dp"
android:background="@color/white" />

    The onClick method should be

    public void onClick(View v) {
　  InputMethodManager im = ((InputMethodManager) getSystemService(INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE));
    im.showSoftInput(editText, 0);
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