SearchView gets focus and opens the keyboard when returning from another activity

Question

When I return from another action to the main action, searchView gets focus and the keyboard opens, I managed to stop the keyboard opening using:

getWindow().setSoftInputMode( WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN); 

but this is not enough if the popup menu of the action bar opens and closes, the keyboard reappears because searchView still has focus (remember that I closed the keyboard). I tried to get a link to the searchView and lose focus, but that didn't work.

So basically, I just want SearchView to never have focus or be asked to open the keyboard if the text area of ​​the searchView is not affected.

Answer 1

This is because SearchView is the first custom view when an action returns to view - the same problem can be seen for EditText s .

The solution is the same: set an earlier view in the hierarchy to focus. In my case, it was a Toolbar my SearchView was on top:

 <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar style="@style/ToolbarStyle" android:focusableInTouchMode="true" android:id="@+id/search_activity_toolbar" android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize" android:layout_width="match_parent"/> <android.support.v7.widget.SearchView android:iconifiedByDefault="false" ... /> 

Now I can focus on my SearchView when entering activity ( clearFocus(); requestFocus(...); ), and then when you exit the operation using the search result, then return by pressing “Back”, the keyboard is in the same state, as with the left.

Please note that some other solutions to the related issue, namely setting windowSoftInputMode="stateUnchanged" in the Activity , did not work for me.

Answer 2

upon initialization

 mSearchView.setIconifiedByDefault(false); 

And after returning, put this in onResume() or onCreateOptionsMenu (if the search is on the menu)

 mSearchView.setIconified(false); 

Then the keyboard will not open when you return until you click on searchview text searchview