Blinking cursor after text in SearchView without showing soft keyboard

Question

I am trying to imitate the style of how search is handled by the gmail app which looks as follows:

As shown above there is a (blue) blinking cursor after the search query in the searchView.

My respective code looks like this:

SearchReslutActivity.class

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu, menu);

    SearchManager searchManager = (SearchManager) getSystemService(Context.SEARCH_SERVICE);
    SearchView searchView = (SearchView) menu.findItem(R.id.search).getActionView();
    searchView.setSearchableInfo(searchManager.getSearchableInfo(getComponentName()));
    searchView.setQuery(getIntent().getStringExtra(SearchManager.QUERY), false);
    searchView.setIconified(false);
    searchView.clearFocus();

    return true;
}

menu/search_menu.xml

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">

<item
    android:id="@+id/search"
    android:title="@string/search_title"
    app:actionViewClass="android.support.v7.widget.SearchView"
    app:showAsAction="always" /> </menu>

xml/searchable.xml

<searchable xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:hint="@string/hint"
android:includeInGlobalSearch="true"
android:inputType="textCapWords"
android:label="@string/app_name"
android:searchSuggestAuthority="com.webaddress.myproject.data.Provider"
android:searchSuggestIntentAction="android.intent.action.VIEW"
android:searchSuggestIntentData="content://com.webaddress.myproject.data.Provider/table"
android:searchSuggestSelection=" ?"
android:searchSuggestThreshold="1" />

The above code achieves the same look as what is displayed in the gmail app except for having a blinking cursor. How can I add such a blinking cursor without requesting focus on the searchView (which in turn will make the soft keyboard pop up again)?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Thanks to @Azizbekian's answer (which did not work on its own for me) I finally got it working with the following code (in an empty project - support libs 25.3.0):

java/MainActivity

package com.yourwebpage.yourapplication;

import android.app.SearchManager;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v4.view.MenuItemCompat;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.support.v7.widget.SearchView;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.view.View;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(final Menu menu) {
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.search_menu, menu);
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onPrepareOptionsMenu(final Menu menu) {
        MenuItem menuItem = menu.findItem(R.id.search);
        SearchView searchView = (SearchView) MenuItemCompat.getActionView(menuItem);
        searchView.setQuery(getIntent().getStringExtra(SearchManager.QUERY), false);
        searchView.setIconified(false);
        SearchView.SearchAutoComplete searchAutoComplete =
                (SearchView.SearchAutoComplete) searchView.findViewById(R.id.search_src_text);
        searchAutoComplete.setOnFocusChangeListener(new View.OnFocusChangeListener() {
            @Override
            public void onFocusChange(final View v, final boolean hasFocus) {
                v.requestFocus();
            }
        });
        searchView.clearFocus();
        return super.onPrepareOptionsMenu(menu);
    }
}

res/layout/activity_main.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout 
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:context="com.yourwebpage.yourapplication.MainActivity">
</android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>

res/menu/search_menu.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu 
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">
    <item
        android:id="@+id/search"
        android:title="Search"
        app:actionViewClass="android.support.v7.widget.SearchView"
        app:showAsAction="always"/>
</menu>

manifests/AndroidManifest.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="com.yourwebpage.yourapplication">

    <application
        android:allowBackup="true"
        android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:roundIcon="@mipmap/ic_launcher_round"
        android:supportsRtl="true"
        android:theme="@style/AppTheme">
        <activity android:name=".MainActivity"
            android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysHidden">
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>
    </application>

</manifest>

I am posting this rather comprehensive solution in the hope of making it reproducible thereby.