Search View Suggestions doesn't work with 2 toolbars

Question

Good Morning Sirs

I was able to reproduce the WhatsApp search bar as you can see in the image below:

For this I created two toolbars and two menus as shown below:

menu_item.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/action_search"
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_search"
        android:title="@string/action_search"
        app:showAsAction="always"  />
</menu>

menu_search.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/action_filter_search"
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_search"
        android:title="Search"
        app:actionViewClass="android.support.v7.widget.SearchView"
        app:showAsAction="collapseActionView|always" />
</menu>

Toolbar inside activity_main.xml

                <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
                android:id="@+id/toolbar"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
                android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
                android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
                app:layout_scrollFlags="scroll|enterAlways"
                android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
                app:popupTheme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light" />

Toolbar inside search_toolbar.xml

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:id="@+id/searchtoolbar"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
    android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
    app:layout_scrollFlags="scroll|enterAlways"
    android:background="@color/colorTextPrimary"
    android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
    app:collapseIcon="@drawable/ic_arrow_back"
    app:titleTextColor="@color/colorPrimary"
    />

I implemented SearchRecentSuggestions however it was not working, doing some tests I saw that it was only working if I use the inflate in the menu_search directly in the onCreateMenuOptions, however,I end up losing the animation as it is shown in the image below:

Case 1

Case 2

Code Used

    @Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(final Menu menu) {

    getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu_search, menu);

    SearchManager searchManager=(SearchManager)getSystemService(Context.SEARCH_SERVICE);
    SearchView searchView = (SearchView) menu.findItem(R.id.action_filter_search).getActionView();
    sView = searchView;
    searchView.setSearchableInfo(searchManager.getSearchableInfo(getComponentName()));
    searchView.setMaxWidth(Integer.MAX_VALUE);
    return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
}

I tried to inflate the menu_search after the menu_items but also did not get the expected result.

    @Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(final Menu menu) {

    getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu_items, menu);

    Toolbar searchTool = findViewById(R.id.searchtoolbar);
    searchTool.inflateMenu(R.menu.menu_search);
    Menu searchM = searchTool.getMenu();
    SearchView itemS = (SearchView)searchM.findItem(R.id.action_filter_search).getActionView();
    SearchManager searchManager=(SearchManager)getSystemService(Context.SEARCH_SERVICE);
    sView = itemS;
    itemS.setSearchableInfo(searchManager.getSearchableInfo(getComponentName()));
    itemS.setMaxWidth(Integer.MAX_VALUE);
    return true;
}

Case 5

Doing an analysis I could see that it is not registering what I am typing in SearchView because after I returned from the normal test, after registering a few words, they appeared in the design with the animation.

Case 3

Is there any possibility that I can inflate the two menus or enable this registry in this second toolbar and achieve this?

Case 4

Thanks for the help

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 06 '17 at 18:05

I got it find a solution for this problem.

First of all it is not possible inflate two menus in onCreateMenuOptions, so to achieve the behavior of SearchSuggestion in this situation only create a method in my case handleSearch and put in the SearchListener and the problem with the Search Suggestion will be solved.

Search View Suggestions doesn't work with 2 toolbars

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