SearchView in actionBar

Question

I've followed this code to implement SearchView inside ActionBar (as an item inside the menu).

But when i reach this line

mSearchView = (SearchView) menu.findItem(R.id.action_search).getActionView();

getActionView() return a null value.

I can't figure out what is wrong.

Answer 1

Try replacing

mSearchView = (SearchView) menu.findItem(R.id.action_search).getActionView();

with

mSearchMenuItem = menu.findItem(R.id.action_search);
mSearchView = (SearchView) MenuItemCompat.getActionView(mSearchMenuItem);