im new to android and i got stucked on something that i think it's simple but i got confused.. I need to make a custom searchView not in the actionbar/toolbar but in my Relativelayout. The problem is that i don't know hot to customise the background , textinput color , the search icon color in XML , or just the attributes of them . At the moment im on my phone and can't show my code . Does anyone tell me how i can customise it ? Maybe showing me any tutorial i can follow ? Thanks in advance !!!!
I suggest you to look at my answer I gave here to style your own SearchBar.
I can't get the reason but I couldn't style Google's default SearchBar so I had to create my own Search bar.
Here's how I did:
Styling Search View on Android (min21)
If you want to implement an InstantSearch algorithm follow this great author and his project (look at the accepted answer):
How to filter a RecyclerView with a SearchView
If you need further help just leave a comment. If the answer helped also upvote my answer :P
UPDATE: Here's Google's implementation of the Search View, just to give you more information: https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/search/search-dialog.html
Have a nice day :)