SearchView not sending intent to result activity

Question

I've got a SearchView that doesn't seem to be working. The SearchView shows in the menu bar, and I can enter text. However when I click the search icon on my phone's on-screen keyboard, nothing at all happens. Ideally, this would start a new activity, sending along a query string to be used. I tried to implement the SearchView.setOnSearchClickListener method to handle the click, but when I do that, the result activity loads as soon as I click the search icon to enter text, with no parameters. Any help at all pinpointing what I might be doing wrong would be greatly appreciated.

I create the menu like so in my Activity:

public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
    inflater.inflate(R.menu.main_menu, menu);

    // Associate searchable configuration with the SearchView
    SearchManager searchManager = (SearchManager) getSystemService(Context.SEARCH_SERVICE);
    final SearchView searchView = (SearchView) menu.findItem(R.id.search).getActionView();
    searchView.setSearchableInfo(searchManager.getSearchableInfo(getComponentName()));

    return true;
}

public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    switch (item.getItemId()) {
        case R.id.convert:
            ...
            return true;
        default:
           return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
    }
}

And the xml for the search:

<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"
            android:icon="@android:drawable/ic_menu_search"
            app:showAsAction="always"
            android:actionViewClass="android.support.v7.widget.SearchView"
            app:actionViewClass="android.support.v7.widget.SearchView"/>

        <item android:id="@+id/convert"
            android:title="@string/dlconvert" />
    </menu>

I've also added this to the manifest in the activity where the search shows:

<meta-data
        android:name="android.app.searchable"
        android:resource="@xml/searchable"/>

And this is the definition of the search result activity:

<activity android:name=".ActivitySearchResults">
        <meta-data
            android:name="android.app.searchable"
            android:resource="@xml/searchable"/>

        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.SEARCH"/>
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>

The searchable.xml file just contains:

<searchable xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:hint="Search..." />

EDIT - the problem is not the same as the possible duplicate. The activity that is supposed to receive the intent never starts at all.

Answer 1

Try

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

        MenuItem item = menu.findItem(R.id.action_search);
        SearchView searchView = (SearchView) MenuItemCompat.getActionView(item);
        searchView.setOnQueryTextListener(this);

        SearchView.SearchAutoComplete searchAutoComplete = searchView.findViewById(android.support.v7.appcompat.R.id.search_src_text);
        searchAutoComplete.setHintTextColor(Color.GRAY);
        searchAutoComplete.setTextColor(Color.BLACK);


        return true;

    }

than implements SearchView.OnQueryTextListener to your activity ans Override methods

searchView.setOnQueryTextListener(new SearchView.OnQueryTextListener() {
    @Override
    public boolean onQueryTextSubmit(String query) {
        Intent intent = new Intent(Activity.this, SearchActivity.class);
        intent.putExtra("query", query);
        startActivity(intent);
        return false;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onQueryTextChange(String newText) {
        return false;
    }
});